Newsletter August 2025: ‘How To’ Information Included!

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Our convention portal is open, with access to our Discord, virtual panels, panel and workshop signups, and more; our restaurant guide is posted; our programming just keeps expanding; ribbon collecting; calling for masquerade volunteers; childcare time adjustments; what you’ll find in our freebies lounge; and more!

Fantastic Fiction: Washingtonian Influences in Frank Herbert’s Duniverse

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Authors write what they know, and Frank Herbert was a voracious reader and lifelong learner, so naturally many of the things he explored found their way into his works. If one looks closely at the Duniverse, as seen in Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, there’s plenty of Washingtonian influences to be found in the Known Universe.