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Readers who still enjoy Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s texts in the 21st century (and there are plenty of reasons to do so) cannot avoid critically examining the racism inherent in them. The problem is not so much the author’s political stance, which by today’s standards would have to be considered white supremacist of the worst kind.
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An astronaut is stranded alone on an alien planet and fights for his survival. With technical know-how, inventiveness and a good portion of colonial power, he finally succeeds in doing what Robinson Crusoe did in Daniel Dafoe’s novel from 1719: the triumph of Homo faber over the uncivilized remaining matter. The End. This is what
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More glass domes! While the iconic building form in dystopian science fiction often serves as a prison for totalitarian control societies (see Logan’s Run), Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 film Silent Running follows a much older tradition. His domes are greenhouses like those in Victorian England, in which the splendor of plants in distant lands had to
Dennis Biba 