A Response

Why Do We Celebrate The Dystopians And The Anti-Humans?

A response to Ilana Lydia’s piece ‘Why Being Called Human Is a Compliment, Against All Odds’.

Martin French
6 min readJan 4, 2022

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An otherworldly looking creature regards us
Photo by Aideal Hwa on Unsplash

Reading Ilana Lydia’s excellent piece, I found myself repeatedly returning to a single question that I have with Science Fiction: why do we appear to celebrate and…

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Martin French

Martin French is a theatre practitioner from Ireland, currently living in Kentuckiana— director, writer, designer, occasional teacher. He/Him.