I enter the coveted corner of the Writer's Hypercube!

The unparalleled and never-imitated Mike Flynn reports that my humble yarn, THE GOLDEN AGE, has been rated as a 011 on the Story Cube.

http://m-francis.livejournal.com/206677.html?view=1226581#t1226581

For those of you not familiar with the Story Cube, it is a mathematical schema used, first, to depict the four basic dimensions of the art of the novel, and, second, the method used by Meg Murray to tesseract through the spacefolds to the evil planet Kamazotz to rescue her father from the darkened world of The Thing.

The theory that Guild Navigators use a similar method of folding space to translate starships to and from planet Dune is, unfortunately, apocryphal. That only appears in the movie. In the original text, the Navigators used prognostication to foretell and avoid the location of micrometeorites and asteroids and other navigation hazards, since a vessel traveling faster than light cannot see incoming objects.