Index

9/11 (11 September 2001) 9-11, 15, 22, 93 See also terrorism, World Trade Center

Adam xvi, xxii, 6 (fig. 6), 8, 14, 19 (fig. 10), 21, 51, 52, 63, 68-69, 71, 82, 103, 113, 119, 147

See also Eve, Fall, Genesis

Adams, Douglas 42, 110-11, 127-28, 148, 171, 177

See also

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

adolescence xvi, xviii, xix, xxi, 33, 55, 57, 69, 84

See also childhood

Adorno, Theodor 56, 61

A.I. Artificial Intelligence 119, 121-24, 126

See also Spielberg, Steven

Aldiss, Brian 139

See also ‘Dick’s Maledictory Web’

Alien 31

Allah 10

See also God

Alumbrados 66

Ancient Greece xvii, 8, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 74, 104, 108

Anderson, Poul 43, 75, 76, 88-89, 91, 98, 160

See also Tau Zero

androids 42, 118, 120, 122-23

See also computers, machines, robots

The Andromeda Strain 64, 121

See also Crichton, Michael

Animal Farm 101

See also Orwell, George

Apocalypse in Lilac 59 (fig. 13)

See also Chagall, Marc

apokalupsis/apokalupsus 15

Aristotle 103, 111

Armageddon 8, 15, 22, 24, 56, 68, 112, 150, 159-160

Armageddon xxv, 31, 45, 64

Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen 145

Attack of the Puppet People 127

Atwood, Margaret xxv, 42, 48, 55, 64, 68-70, 73, 75, 76-77, 90, 91, 93, 98, 113, 114, 141, 153, 161

See also The Handmaid’s Tail

Oryx and Crake

Auschwitz 56

See also Hitler, Adolf

The Holocaust

Auster, Paul xxii, xxv, 9, 76, 83-84, 85

Bakhtin, Mikhail 111

Ballard, J.G. 2, 3, 9, 15, 64, 86, 129

See also The Drowned World

Barnes, Julian xxv, 142-147, 161, 163, 168, 169, 171, 176

The BBC 39, 68, 165

The Bed-Sitting Room 44

Bellamy, Edward 153

Benson, Robert Hugh 64

Berger, James 15, 22, 53, 56, 57, 60-62, 63, 64, 68, 100, 150-51, 160

Bergman, Ingmar 105, 106 (fig. 17), 107 (fig. 18), 108, 145, 175

See also The Seventh Seal

Bettelheim, Bruno xvi

The Bible xvi, xxii, 8, 133, 164

See also

Cities of the Plain

Genesis, the Book of

Revelation, the Book of

Big Bang 13, 104

Big Brother 93, 130, 142, 143, 151, 164

See also Nineteen Eighty-Four

Orwell, George

Big Brother 112

bildungsroman xvii, 82, 138

Black Death 47, 75

Blade Runner xxv, 120, 121, 122, 123

See also Ridley Scott

Blake, William xvii (fig. 2) 4 (fig. 4), 5

blindness 31, 45, 94, 99

See also Blindness

Day of the Triffids

Blindness 31, 94-100

Blish, James 43

The Blob 64, 79-80

The Body Snatchers 32, 33, 93, 178

See also Finney, Jack body-snatching xix

Booker, M. Keith 53, 79, 127, 140, 151

Bosch, Hieronymus xvi (fig. 1)

See also The Last Judgement

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 57-58

Bradbury, Ray 60, 87, 91, 93, 100, 120, 136, 152, 162, 164, 169

See also Fahrenheit 451

Bradshaw, John 12

Brave New World 69, 80, 87, 101, 120, 128, 133, 135, 136, 140, 143, 147, 149, 152, 153-54, 160, 164

See also Huxley, Aldous

Brockmeier, Kevin 9, 43, 44

Browning, Robert 147, 168

Buddhism 66

Bulletin of Atomic Sudies 24

Bush, George W. 93

By Dawn’s Early Light 27, 28, 30, 58, 118

Caeiro, Alberto 72

Cameron, James 11, 75, 115, 117, 119

See also The Terminator

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Camus, Albert 94

cannibalism xix, xxiii

Čapek, Karel 118, 123

Carey, John 146, 162

cataclysm xviii, xix, xx, xxv, 15, 22, 30, 36, 38, 43, 47, 51, 53, 56, 64, 66, 68, 70-71, 75, 77, 86, 89, 91, 100, 101, 113, 119, 137, 151, 158, 176

Caute, David 93

Chagall, Marc 59

See also Apocalypse in Lilac

Chaplin, Charlie 100

childhood/children xv, xvi-xix, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, 32, 37-38, 39, 41, 45, 51-52, 53, 58, 69-70, 71, 73, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 89, 90, 105-06, 115-16, 119, 120, 125-26, 127, 133, 134-38, 150, 156-57, 159-60, 166-67, 169, 173, 175-76

See also adolescence

The Children of Men 76, 79-91, 100, 102, 138, 153-54

See also James, P.D.

Chodorow, Nancy 51

Christianity xxiii, 14, 66, 75, 79, 115, 154, 157, 159, 160, 166, 175

The Chrysalids 35, 37, 40, 66, 91, 109, 114, 115, 121-23, 126, 149, 166, 167

See also John Wyndham

Cities of the Plain xxiv, 62 (fig. 4), 69, 104

See also Bible

civilization xxi, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 21, 22, 39, 57, 70, 79, 82, 83, 87, 98, 107, 115, 116, 118, 126, 129, 135, 165, 166-67

Clarens, Carlos 123

Clarke, Arthur C. 107

Clarkson, Helen 64

Close Encounters of the Third Kind 31, 123

See also Spielberg, Steven

Cohen, Arthur 56, 57

Cold War 21-23, 28, 92, 100, 127

computers 25, 26, 27, 42, 110, 111, 118, 119, 124, 136, 148, 150, 152

‘Conditionally Human’ 120, 121-22, 130

See also Miller, Walter M.

‘Consider Her Ways’ 73, 74, 75-76, 77

See also Wyndham, John

Coover, Robert 100

‘The Country of the Blind’ 95-99

See also Wells, H.G.

Crichton, Michael 34, 64, 117, 119, 121

See also The Andromeda Strain

Jurassic Park

Prey

State of Fear

crime xviii, 115, 125, 142, 175

Crossley, Robert 31, 106, 137

culture xvi, xx, 11, 12, 20, 30, 56, 74, 80, 87, 103, 104, 107, 115, 132, 140, 152, 153, 155, 171

Dafni, Reuven 57 (fig. 12)

Dahl, Roald 119

‘Dark Benediction’ 33, 86, 96

See also Miller, Walter M.

Darwin, Charles 16, 38, 60

Darwinism 35, 38, 161, 165, 168, 169

The Day After 45, 64

The Day After Tomorrow xxiv, 9, 45, 47, 64

The Day of the Triffids 31, 35, 37, 38, 39-41, 81, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 149

See also Wyndham, John

The Day the Earth Stood Still 31, 123, 125, 127

Deep Impact 9, 46

Derrida, Jacques xviii, 65, 167

deterrence 23, 24

See also Cold War

Dick, Philip K. 5, 9, 15, 66, 79, 80, 91, 93, 94, 100, 111, 120, 122, 123, 128-30, 139, 147, 148, 149, 154, 162, 164

See also

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dr. Bloodmoney

The Penultimate Truth

The Simulacra

Time Out of Joint

We Can Build You

The World Jones Made

Dickens, Charles xvii

Dinnerstein, Dorothy 51

dinosaurs 2, 5, 21

Disch, Thomas M. 64

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 122-23

See also Dick, Philip K.

Doré, Gustave 19 (fig. 10)

Dr. Bloodmoney 66, 79, 111, 139, 149, 154

See also Dick, Philip K.

Dream 122, 123, 143, 144, 145, 146

The Drowned World 2, 3, 9, 15, 64, 129

See also Ballard, J.G.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop

Worrying and Love the Bomb 42, 60, 64, 129

Dunbar, R.I.M. 12

Dürer, Albrecht 29 (fig. 11)

dystopia 91, 100, 132, 133, 135, 138, 139-40, 146-47, 149, 153, 154, 167

Eco, Umberto 111

Edda, Poetic and Prose 54

See also Ragnarök

Eden xvi, xxiii, 7, 8, 14, 19 (fig. 10), 20, 63, 103-105, 113-15, 119, 138, 147-148

See also Fall, paradise

Einstein, Albert 22-24

See also Russell-Einstein Manifesto

El Greco 158 (fig. 22)

Eloi 73, 74, 153, 167-68

See also The Time Machine, Wells, H.G.

environment xv, xxiv, 3, 12, 15, 21, 35, 44, 71, 87, 119, 125, 129, 148

Escape from New York 83, 85

eschaton 15

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 31, 123

See also Spielberg, Steven

Eurydice 104

evangelism xviii, 56, 66, 160, 166

Evans, Joyce A. 53, 79

Eve xvi, 6 (fig. 6), 7, 14, 19 (fig. 10), 21, 51, 52, 63, 68, 69, 71, 77, 98, 103, 113, 119, 147, 174

See also Adam, Fall, Genesis

evolution 2-3, 15, 35, 50, 73, 114, 122, 165, 169

See also Darwinism, recapitulation

Fahrenheit 451 60, 87, 91, 120, 134, 136, 152, 164

See also Bradbury, Ray

Fail-Safe xxiv, 27-28, 30, 58, 92

fairy tales xvi, xvii, xix, xx, 7

The Fall 8, 19, 20, 53, 118, 138, 139

See also Adam, Eve, Genesis, Bible

fantastic xix, 46

fantasy 140, 151

Farmer, Philip José 139

fascism 94, 165

Findley, Timothy 147, 157, 173-76

Finney, Jack 32

See also The Body Snatchers

Flammarion, Camille 64

floods/The Flood xxiv, 18, 48, 51, 52, 55, 68, 70, 89, 104, 114, 173 (fig. 24), 174, 175, 176

Forster, E.M. xxv, 119, 120, 128, 130, 136, 141, 153, 164

Foucault, Michel 56, 93, 140, 151

Four Riders 29

Franco, Francisco 165

Frankenstein 120

Frazer, James 145

free will 14, 52, 108, 128, 136, 149, 163, 169

Freud, Sigmund xix, 119, 165

Friedrich, Caspar David 72 (fig. 15), 73

Frost, Robert 25

Fukuyama, Francis 157

Gaia theory 39, 128

Gaiman, Neil 144-145

Gannon, Charles E. 44-45

Genesis, the Book of xvi, 8, 14, 18, 30, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 62, 68, 71, 79, 90, 103, 113, 157, 173, 174

See also Adam, Eve, Fall, flood, paradise

genocide xxiii, 64, 122, 123, 155, 156, 167

See also The Holocaust

Gershwin, George and Ira 164

God xvi, 1, 5, 8, 10, 20, 21, 22, 31, 41, 42, 47, 49, 51, 52, 53, 62, 65, 66, 69, 70, 77, 78, 90, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 110, 111, 113, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 132, 137, 139, 143, 154, 159, 161, 162, 167, 169, 173, 174, 175, 176

Golding, William xix

good and evil xvi, 22, 34, 103, 117, 164

Grainville, François-Xavier Cousin de 64

The Great Day of His Wrath 172 (fig. 23)

See also Martin, John

Greimas, Julien xvi

Groundhog Day 144, 171

Hadron Collider 13, 104, 127

Hamilton, Andy 110

Hammett, Dashiell 100

The Handmaid’s Tale 42, 75-77, 90, 91-92

See also Atwood, Margaret

Harris, Thomas xix, 1

Harry Potter series xv, 55, 144

See also Rowling, J.K.

Voldemort

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 16

Hell 63, 172

Hellman, Lillian 100

Herculano, Alexandre xxiv

Herman, Barbara 57, 61

Hiroshima 8, 15, 21, 30, 67, 68, 127

Hirst, Damien 120

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 42, 110, 128, 148, 171

See also Adams, Douglas

Hitler, Adolf 23, 59, 136, 155, 157, 165, 167

See also The Holocaust, World War II

Hobbes, Thomas 132-33

The Holocaust 15, 56, 59, 61-62 (fig. 14)

See also World War II

holocaust xx, 17, 70, 93-94, 159, 175

See also post-holocaust

homo sapiens 13, 35, 128, 130

Hood, Thomas 64

horror xvi, xvii, xix, 16, 23, 31, 34, 55, 60, 61, 65, 105, 110, 119, 127, 140, 169

See also fantasy, body-snatching

The Human Condition (La condition humaine) 109 (fig. 19), 110

See also Magritte, René

humanity xviii, xxiv, 2, 3, 5, 14, 21, 23, 24, 33, 37, 38-40, 45, 50, 52, 56, 62, 63, 64, 70, 71, 74, 79, 81, 82, 86, 87, 93, 98, 100, 101, 103, 106, 108, 109, 112-17, 119, 120, 121, 122-25, 129, 130, 136, 137, 140, 141, 146, 147, 148, 150, 160, 161, 165, 168, 174, 175

Huxley, Aldous xxiv, xxv, 69, 80, 87, 91, 93, 100, 101, 120, 128, 129, 133-35, 136, 140, 143, 147, 149, 152, 153, 154, 160, 161, 162, 164, 169

See also Brave New World

I Am Legend 33, 50, 86, 96

iconoclasm 21, 111

I Married a Monster from Outer Space 123

incest xviii, 12, 54, 173, 175

The Incredible Shrinking Man 50

Independence Day 9, 31, 45, 64, 117

infinity 20, 176

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 32-33, 91, 123, 168

I, Robot xxv, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128

Irving, Washington 153

Jackson, Rosemary 68, 140

James, P.D. 11, 15, 39, 43, 53, 56, 68, 76, 79, 90, 91, 92, 100, 115, 129, 138, 145, 150, 153, 154, 159

See also The Children of Men

Jameson, Fredric 139, 151

Jehovah 15, 51

See also God

Jurassic Park 121

See also Crichton, Michael

Kant, Immanuel 61, 132

Kennedy, John F. 24, 92

Kermode, Frank 56

Kerr, Judith xviii

Ketterer, David 86, 153, 155

Kiefer, Anselm 62 (fig. 14)

Kilmer, Joyce 104

King Kong 1, 2, 5, 7 (fig. 7), 10 (fig. 8), 9-11, 13, 121

knowledge xvi, xxv, 13, 14, 24, 37, 39, 49, 53, 65, 74, 82, 87, 96, 98, 99, 103, 104, 112, 129, 132, 139, 148, 152, 163

The Kraken Wakes 35, 37, 40, 82, 97, 123, 149

See also Wyndham, John

Larkin, Philip 12

The Last Judgement xvi (fig. 1)

See also Bosch, Hieronymus

The Last Man 18 (fig. 9)

See also Martin, John

Lebow, Richard Ned 24

Lem, Stanislaw 83, 85-86

See also Solaris

Levin, Ira xxv, 69, 80, 87, 91, 100, 101, 119, 120, 128-30, 135, 136, 141-43, 147-49, 152-54, 161, 162, 164, 169

See also This Perfect Day

Lindsey, Hal 56, 66, 159

Lot 62 (fig. 14)

See also Genesis

Loyola, Don Inacio de xv, xxiii

Lucifer 147, 174-76

See also Satan

Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria 161, 162

machines xv, 26, 61, 74, 93, 94, 103, 105, 115-23, 125, 128-30, 148, 152, 153

See also computers, robots

MacNeice, Louis 14, 20

Magritte, René 4 (fig. 3), 5 (fig. 5), 109 (fig. 19), 110

Manhattan Project 21, 105

See also Cold War

Einstein, Albert

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Manicheans 66, 164

A Map of Utopia 131 (fig. 20)

See also More, Thomas

Martin, John 18 (fig. 9), 172 (fig. 23)

Marxism 136, 165, 169

Mary 77, 90, 119, 178, 180

See also Bible, God

Matheson, Richard 33, 50, 86, 96

The Matrix 110, 148, 183

McCarthy, Cormac xxi, xxii, 9, 31, 32, 54, 70, 71, 73, 100

See also The Road

McCaughrean, Geraldine 157

McGuire, Gregory 138

Merrill, Judith xix, 67, 68, 70, 92

metempsychosis 50

Meyer, Stephenie 33, 34, 45, 64, 96

Michelangelo 156 (fig. 21), 173 (fig. 24)

The Midwich Cuckoos 35, 37, 40, 109, 110, 114, 115, 121, 123, 126, 165, 167

See also Wyndham, John

Mill, John Stuart 135, 162

millenarian xviii, 15, 56, 66, 158

See also Armageddon, dystopia, Revelation, utopia

Miller, Walter C. 33, 34, 66, 86, 87, 96, 100, 120-22, 130

See also ‘Dark Benediction’

Mills, C. Wright 139-40

Milton, John 52, 63, 174

modernism xxiv, 56

Moe, Jørgen 177

Moore, Catherine 42

More, Thomas xxv, 22, 91, 109, 131 (fig. 20), 138, 140, 159, 161, 164

Morlocks 73-74, 167

See also The Time Machine

Wells, H.G.

Mussolini, Benito 165

mythology 13, 54, 133

Nagasaki 30, 68, 127

See also Hiroshima

nanotechnology xv, 117, 122

Neanderthal 5

Nebuchadnezzar 4 (fig. 4), 5

See also Blake, William

neocortex 12

Newcomb, Simon 30

New Jerusalem 63, 66, 132, 138, 154

See also Revelation, utopia

Nineteen Eighty-Four 91, 101, 128, 130, 135, 136, 141, 143, 147, 151, 163, 164

See also Big Brother

Orwell, George

Noah 49, 51, 52, 157, 173, 174, 175, 176

See also floods, Genesis

nothingness xxiv, 20, 43, 63, 108, 169

nuclear war xix, xxi, xxii, 22-27, 33, 41-42, 54, 87, 94, 118, 159, 164

Oakley, Robert xviii, xx

O’Brien, Robert C. xxi, xxiv

The Omen 31, 169

The Opening of the Fifth Seal 158 (fig. 22)

See also El Greco

Oppenheimer, J. Robert 13, 21, 23, 58, 92, 100, 105

Orpheus 14, 104

Orwell, George xxiv, 91, 93, 100-01, 128-29, 135-36, 141-43, 147, 151-52, 162-64, 169

See also Animal Farm

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Oryx and Crake xxv, 48, 55, 64, 68-70, 113, 114, 141, 153

See also Atwood, Margaret

palaeo-neurology 12

palingenesis 49-50

Pandora 13-14, 104

paradise 24, 63

Pauling, Linus 23, 100

The Penultimate Truth 9, 80, 93, 120, 128, 148, 164

See also Dick, Philip K.

Peyrouton de Ladebat, Monique xviii, xx

phantasmagoria xix

Pinochet, Augusto 165

Planet of the Apes xxiv, 96

Plato xxv, 69, 149, 154-55, 161, 164

Poe, Edgar Allan 64-65, 144, 172

possession xix, xx, 9, 33, 41, 48, 83, 87, 120, 168

post-holocaust 79, 140, 162

Poundstone, William 21-22

Prey 117, 119

See also Crichton, Michael

primeval 2-5, 40, 51, 98, 115, 167, 175

Propp, Vladimir xvi

Psyche 14, 104

Pullman, Philip 79, 169

Quatermass and the Pit 110

radiation xxi, xxiii, 3, 38, 43, 45, 50, 60, 68, 92

Ragnarök 51, 54

See also Edda

Rapture xviii, 66, 106, 154, 159-60

See also Revelation, the Book of

Reagan, Ronald 22, 93, 133, 159-60

recapitulation 3, 49

Rees, Martin 24, 25, 39, 66, 86-87

Revelation, the Book of xviii, 1, 15, 56, 63, 64, 66, 77, 78 (fig. 16), 104, 106, 132, 139, 154

See also Bible, Rapture

The Road xxi, xxii, 9, 54, 70, 71, 100, 179, 183

See also McCarthy, Cormac

Robinson, Marilynne 24

robots 94, 116-28

See also androids, computers, machines

Rosemary’s Baby 31, 169

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel 31, 100

Roshwald, Mordecai 43, 45, 64, 118

Rosoff, Meg 84-86

routinization 151

Rowling, J.K. xv, xvi, 84, 144-45

See also Harry Potter, Voldemort

Rubens, Peter Paul 6 (fig. 6), 78 (fig. 16)

Russell, Bertrand 22-24

Russell-Einstein Manifesto 23-24

See also Cold War

Salazar, António de Oliveira 165

Saramago, José 31, 45-46, 93-100

Sartre, Jean-Paul 140

Satan 52, 63, 110, 117, 144, 161, 174, 175

See also God, Lucifer

Scarrow, Alex xx

Scott, Ridley xxv, 120-22

See also Blade Runner

Second Life 112, 128

Seed, David 43, 159

Self, Will 89-91, 98

The Seventh Seal 105-07, 145, 175

See also Bergman, Ingmar

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 13, 105, 120

Shiel, M.P. 68, 70

Shoah See The Holocaust

Shute, Nevil 9, 43-45, 60-61, 64

Silverberg, Robert 42

Simak, Clifford D. 122

The Simulacra 5, 15, 80, 148

See also Dick, Philip K.

Socrates 135, 162

Solaris 48, 83, 85-86

See also Lem, Stanislaw

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 42, 111, 171, 177

See also Adams, Douglas

Sontag, Susan 18, 21-23, 50

Spielberg, Steven 31, 64, 117, 119, 123-24, 126

See also

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Stapledon, Olaf 30

State of Fear 34-35

See also Crichton, Michael

Stevenson, Robert Louis 120

Stewart, George R. 66, 77, 80, 81-83, 89, 91, 96, 98, 149, 157

Stoicism 66

The Stoics 50

Sturgeon, Theodor 109

Sturluson, Snorri 51, 54-56

survival xv, xx, xxii, xxiii, xxv, 8, 12, 30-32, 37-42, 47, 48, 51, 52, 57, 58, 68, 70, 71, 82, 85, 86, 94, 97, 99, 105, 107, 112-115, 116, 121, 124, 125, 128, 130, 137, 139, 161, 165-67

Survivors 39, 94, 96

Swindells, Robert E. xviii, xxii-xxiv

taboo xix, 12, 103, 165

Tau Zero 43, 88, 89, 160

See also Anderson, Poul

Telles, Lygia Fagundes 34, 35-36, 37

The Terminator 11, 75, 115-17, 119, 120, 148

See also James Cameron

Terminator 2: Judgement Day 116

terrorism 25, 44

See also 9/11

This Perfect Day 69, 80, 87, 91, 101, 119, 120, 128, 135, 136, 141, 142, 143, 147, 148, 149, 152, 153, 154, 161, 164

See also Levin, Ira

The Time Machine 73, 143, 153, 167

See also Wells, H.G.

Time out of Joint 147-48

See also Dick, Philip K.

Tolstoy, Leo xvii

Torga, Miguel 52, 108, 117, 130

To the Devil a Daughter 31, 169

transgression xviii-xix, 136

trauma xxiii, 15, 20, 57, 74, 85

Tree of Knowledge 14, 20

Tree of Life 21

See also Adam, Eden, Eve, Fall, Genesis

Trouble with Lichen 114, 120, 143-44, 171

See also Wyndham, John

The Truman Show 111-13, 148-49, 154

Twilight series 33-34

See also Meyer, Stephenie

utopia xxv, 15, 62, 100, 131-70

vampirism xix, 33-34, 86

Vidal, Gore 133, 159-60

The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse 78 (fig. 16)

See also Rubens, Peter Paul

Virus 64

Voldemort xvi, 55, 144-45

See also

Harry Potter

Rowling, J.K.

Vonnegut, Kurt 17, 41-42, 86, 113, 114, 134, 148

Wagner, Richard 51, 54, 56

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog 72 (fig. 15)

See also Friedrich, Caspar David

war, as shortcut to utopia 158

See also Cold War

nuclear war

World War II

The War Game 44

WarGames 25-28, 53, 118

War of the Worlds 31, 64, 117

Waterworld 3, 15, 129

Web 35

See also Wyndham, John

We Can Build You 123

See also Dick, Philip K.

Welles, Orson 100

Wells, H.G. xxv, 48, 64, 73-74, 93, 95-100, 117, 153, 155-57, 167

See also ‘The Country of the Blind’

The Time Machine

Wilhelm, Kate 77, 81, 141, 149

Willis, Connie 74, 75

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 61, 65

The Wizard of Oz 138

Wolfe, Bernard 80, 118

The Wonders of Nature (Les Merveilles de la nature) 5

See also Magritte, René

The World Jones Made 66, 162

See also Dick, Philip K.

World Trade Center 9-10

See also 9/11

World War II 24, 56-58, 67

See also Auschwitz

Hitler, Adolf

The Holocaust

Wyndham, John xxv, 31, 35, 37, 41, 66, 73, 77, 81-82, 91, 94-101, 109-10, 114-15, 118-24, 126-27, 143-44, 149, 165-66, 169, 171

See also

The Chrysalids

‘Consider Her Ways’

The Day of the Triffids

Kraken Wakes

The Midwich Cuckoos

Trouble with Lichen

Web

Yaweh 173-76

See also God, floods

Yeats, W.B. 173-74

Zipes, Jack xvi