Two mini-series for the price of one, on the evolution-equals-powers trope...
MUTANTS ARE OUR FUTURE
A six-part look at the mutation-as-evolution trope in comics, music, TV shows and films, where we’ll all start to manifest super-powers if we wait long enough. And also start wearing white, it would seem. Telepaths please pick up my projected thoughts, the rest of you click on the links…
First, From Monsters To Mutants! How the Marvel comics series ‘The Uncanny X-Men’ differed from their pioneering ‘Fantastic Four’, by bringing in the M-word…
Next, crashing ‘The X-Men’ against the British SF show ‘The Tomorrow People’ to see what sparks…
…then, going on to the different types of story the two told…
Make way for Bowie’s ‘Hunky Dory’! The album that dropped the term homo superior into popular culture. But just what was so Seventies about this?
Next up, 'Codename Icarus’. What’s a Maths prodigy from the wrong side of the tracks to do in the crazy, mixed-up world of the Cold War?
The inflammatory, witchy powers manifested by ’Carrie’, do they belong here? Aren’t they less SF and more horror? In fact they should be head of the queue…
And finally, Cronenburg’s ’Scanners’, where the homo superior trope turns full-on body horror. Swiftly followed by...
First, From Monsters To Mutants! How the Marvel comics series ‘The Uncanny X-Men’ differed from their pioneering ‘Fantastic Four’, by bringing in the M-word…
Next, crashing ‘The X-Men’ against the British SF show ‘The Tomorrow People’ to see what sparks…
…then, going on to the different types of story the two told…
Make way for Bowie’s ‘Hunky Dory’! The album that dropped the term homo superior into popular culture. But just what was so Seventies about this?
Next up, 'Codename Icarus’. What’s a Maths prodigy from the wrong side of the tracks to do in the crazy, mixed-up world of the Cold War?
The inflammatory, witchy powers manifested by ’Carrie’, do they belong here? Aren’t they less SF and more horror? In fact they should be head of the queue…
And finally, Cronenburg’s ’Scanners’, where the homo superior trope turns full-on body horror. Swiftly followed by...
PARIAH ELITES
Evolving to the printed word, we look at the history of Pariah Elites in fiction. (Mostly, inevitably enough, science fiction.)
(...a kind of bonus post leading us in to Wyndham's use of Pariah Elites...)
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