“The Mindworm”: C. M. Kornbluth’s Post-War American Vampire Tale at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Through a close reading of C. M. Kornbluth’s “The Mindworm” (1950), this paper focuses on the socioeconomic and political anxieties of postwar America including: fears of uncontrolled technological development (nuclear weapons), pathologies of consumerism (material affluence), and the McCarthyite su...
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| Language: | English |
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Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Fafnir |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.finfar.org/articles/1703.pdf |