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Wondercon Confronts The Rise Of The Police State

The biggest cheers at Wondercon weren't for killer robots, but for allegories about government conspiracies, endless wars and terrorism. Much of the weekend felt like a poli-sci seminar, except with nuclear holocausts and mutated alien bugs instead of textbooks. If you needed proof that the shadow of 9/11 keeps falling over our formerly escapist narratives, then you only needed to sit in on any one of the con's jam-packed panels. More »

2:30 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,837 views, 28 comments

science fiction politics

Five Ways 9/11 Changed Science Fiction

Cloverfield has everybody talking about the way science fiction is dealing with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but that giant monster movie is hardly the first SF creation to tackle terrorism, high-tech surveillance, and governments run amok in the post-9/11 era. As the United States has cracked down on civil liberties at home, and invaded nations abroad, in the name of national security, a crop of futuristic and fanciful tales have sprung up to satirize and justify "the war on terror." These tales generally deal with one of five crucial post-9/11 themes, which we've enumerated (with examples) for you below. More »

3:30 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Annalee Newitz
8,170 views, 71 comments

Latest by jesustonight: Its a funny thing but if you look at some of these allegories a little closer there quite paranoid.Enterprise goes to hunt down the evil xindi and find there just patsies and some one else is running the show.In jericho more »