Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

We're your fan and writer host. I'm Blue Gow.

And I'm Drift Glass, and you can visit Science Fiction University at our website,

science fiction university.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.

There is a Patreon button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution

to Science Fiction University, P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.

And here comes a spoiler warning. This episode contains spoilers and surprising revelations

about a 1963 film, a 1973 film, and a 1993 film, as well as possible collateral spoilers for Black Sunday,

the Andromeda Strain, Captain America, the Day of the Jackal, Mimic and or I Am Legend,

and basically anything else we might come across as we think this through and talk about it on today's

podcast.

The theme of today's show is Mother Nature USMC.

And it's about a subgenre of science fiction in which human beings try to bend nature to their will,

usually but not always, with disastrous results.

Now, there are a lot of these kinds of stories in science fiction going all the way back to

Frankenstein.

Scientists tampering with things they shouldn't.

Attempting to play God.

And it makes sense because ever since the giant black monolith appeared on the African

Savannah and gave us monkeys the ability to use a bone as a club, we've been repurposing

nature for our own ends.

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