Captain Tomorrow and his Star Rangers vs. the Political Event Horizon
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Vic Jason
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Bare metal Thunderchiefs--this goes way back to the early sixties when SEA was a place McNamara and Johnson could only dream of.
It's easy to imagine the Russians (also known as Soviet, Inc.) looked at such pictures and figured the Americans were serious about containing their empire.
But as history went, SEA turned out to be a way to defeat Captain Tomorrow and his Star Rangers afterall.
And the cult of corporate puppets and professional politicians carried off the universe....
Carter Kaplan has followed a career teaching English and philosophy in Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City, and Scotland. His critical work includes a book on Wittgenstein and literary theory entitled Critical Synoptics: Menippean Satire and the Analysis of Intellectual Mythology (Fairleigh-Dickinson UP, 2000). His articles on “Karel Čapek”, “Menippean Satire” and “Dystopian Literature” appear in The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics (Greenwood, 2005). He has contributed a chapter on John Milton, William Blake and Michael Moorcock to New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction (U of South Carolina Press, 2008). He is the author of the novel Tally-Ho, Cornelius! (Mustard Lid Press, 2008) and the Aristophanic comedy Diogenes (International Authors, 2011), and he is the editor of the anthology Emanations (International Authors, 2011).
1 comments:
Bare metal Thunderchiefs--this goes way back to the early sixties when SEA was a place McNamara and Johnson could only dream of.
It's easy to imagine the Russians (also known as Soviet, Inc.) looked at such pictures and figured the Americans were serious about containing their empire.
But as history went, SEA turned out to be a way to defeat Captain Tomorrow and his Star Rangers afterall.
And the cult of corporate puppets and professional politicians carried off the universe....
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