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iansales · 23rd February 2007, 02:25 PM

9/11 is not the only terrorist act to have impacted literature or cinema. Iain Banks wrote a story about the Lockerbie Disaster, for example (I forget the title, and it's not sf anyway). Most sf written about terrorism, I suspect, will have been of the flag-waving kill-the-nasty-terrorists variety. Popular entertainment tends to reflect social concerns, after all.

Of more recent vintage, there Battlestar: Galactica, of course. And, while it's an indirect connection, there's also Glorifying Terrorism (see http://rackstrawpress.nfshost.com/).

23rd February 2007, 02:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
iansales Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 1,791	Re: Terrorism in Sci fi - Thesis Question Help Appreciated! 9/11 is not the only terrorist act to have impacted literature or cinema. Iain Banks wrote a story about the Lockerbie Disaster, for example (I forget the title, and it's not sf anyway). Most sf written about terrorism, I suspect, will have been of the flag-waving kill-the-nasty-terrorists variety. Popular entertainment tends to reflect social concerns, after all. Of more recent vintage, there Battlestar: Galactica, of course. And, while it's an indirect connection, there's also Glorifying Terrorism (see http://rackstrawpress.nfshost.com/).