and “SF the Unnamable”* (1966). The politics of sf were also examined closely in this era. Sakyo Komatsu challenged Ivan Efremov’s socialist ideology and redefined sf as a field for investigating the ...
Beyond the edge of known space lies… the Unnamable. A myth? A god? An unknowable malevolent power? No one knows – no one, that is, but the one force in the universe that can stand against it: the ...
However, battling unnamable cosmic horrors takes tolls both physical and mental. The heroes can become unwound by the stresses of combat, falling to madness as often as they fall to blades ...
The beings that beset the adventurers are emphatically alien: unknowable, indescribable, unnamable. For all its singularity, “The Willows,” like all pieces of genius, has become exemplary.
Despite the rhetoric about amorphous “trauma” living in the body forever and leading to unnamable malaise, my own dive into the research told me that PTSD was imminently treatable—quickly.