![]() ![]() The nightmare is so familiar now it’s almost banal: what oh what would happen if someone, somewhere, treated us the way we treated them? Science-fiction has been rejiggering colonial narratives practically since it began as a genre: HG Wells’s The War of the Worlds directly compares the alien invasion of England to Britain’s invasion of Tasmania. Rick Yancey’s novel The 5th Wave opens with that quote from Stephen Hawking which, at this point, isn’t so much an insight as a cliché. If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
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