A new book, due later in 2020…

My new book: Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson is due to be published on October 30th of this year”

The core idea seems to be that some of us enjoy imagining extreme aliens/robots, encountered under extreme conditions. Such ideas then both threaten and reinforce the reader’s ideas about ‘what it is to be human’. One can certainly see how such repeated literary lessons might have been useful for a certain kind of young nerd in the 1930s-80s.