![]() But most mutants in these stories before the 1940s were animals or insects and not humans. It confirmed my memory and Gunn’s claims that mutant stories have been around for a long time in science fiction. I double checked the “ Mutants” entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. It’s the alien presence of the mutant that matters. A “mutant” plot can be set in the past, present, or future. Gunn says right up front that “the problem of mutations” has no set pattern of protagonist or setting. Mutants don’t seem a plot category but a theme or motif. (And, no, Gunn didn’t throw an exclamation mark in after “mutants”.) ![]() ![]() We’re at the last subcategory of the “plots of circumstance”. My look at James Gunn’s Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis continues. ![]()
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