Died this Day:
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) best known for his 1965 masterpiece Dune, the best-selling sci-fi novel in history. Herbert's visionary world-building and its five sequels forever reshaped the science fiction domain.

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Died this Day:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

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