![]() Partly as a result of this embracement of ignorance, the threat of nuclear annihilation is back on the table.īooks and films in which humankind is devastated by a virulent pandemic are now numerous and distinctive enough in their narratives and iconography to constitute their own subgenre, one that Kim Newman neatly categorises as Decontamination Suit Films. It's a still relevant fear at a time when new viruses continue to appear and older ones evolve whist human evolution appears to moving backwards, with more and more people seem willing to reject science and proven fact and take a more troglodyte approach to what barely counts as reason. As the cold war unexpectedly but thankfully thawed, the spectre of nuclear war faded and the supervirus found itself promoted to the position of most likely cause of humanity's destruction. ![]() When I was just a lad, the general consensus amongst the politically active was that the world would probably end in a firestorm of nuclear explosions and that it would probably happen soon. Slarek revisits a favourite sf movie on Arrow's excellent new Blu-ray. A small town New Mexico is almost completely wiped out by an alien organism and four scientists are recruited to locate the virus and find a way to combat it in Robert Wise's superb film adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1969 novel THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN. ![]()
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