skopia
Malcolm X was a Michigan boy, then a Harlem hustler, then a convict copying the dictionary, then a speaker no one in America could ignore. He was still changing when he was murdered.
Sent to study agriculture, a Missouri farm boy falls for English literature instead and never leaves the university. Williams makes an unremarkable life, badly used by everyone in it, hold you completely.
Arrakis is a desert planet of sandworms, holding the only supply of the spice that makes interstellar travel possible. Paul Atreides arrives as a duke's son and the Fremen call him messiah.
Murphy left Dunkirk in the frozen January of 1963 on a bicycle named Roz and rode to Delhi, fighting off wolves in Yugoslavia and thieves in Iran, and setting it down without drama.