A long time ago, in a California desert far, far away, a group of filmmakers, artists, and special effects pioneers made one ...

Pyle It's no secret that science fiction writers are fond of rooting their imagined alien lifeforms on theoretical desert ...

The Jawas and Tusken Raiders from "Star Wars", for example, wouldn't have been able to evolve on the sand-covered Tatooine (perhaps unless they arrived after it had already turned into a desert ...