![]() ![]() It might also be evoking Muhammad Ali’s refusal, at a high personal cost, to fight the US’s imperial war in Vietnam. The story “Strike and Fade” is about an African American Vietnam vet, who teaches rioting young African Americans how to resist and fight the white cops in an American city and survive. While it evokes two major texts, Catch 22 and Invisible Man, the missing link, I suggest, is a short story by Henry Dumas, killed at the age of 34 by a police officer at a NY subway station. ![]() Silverfish’s last chapter, the epilogue, conjures something similar as the guest speaker for the 65 th Clayton Lecture celebrates the discovery of Silica Vali and deciphering its California Data Cloud in order to reconstruct “an accurate picture of life prior to the Second Dark Age.” Since the speaker and his team have in their possession now Angel R and Angel N, they believe they will be able to deconstruct the Profit Wars and causes behind the Great Grid Collapse.Įmploying various narrative devices, Silverfish subverts sci-fi fiction with Black anti-war consciousness. Proof after proof, we come to understand how social and religious intolerance ushered that era’s gradual declensions and final eclipse. ![]() ![]() I once translated a highly symbolic story by one of the finest modern Urdu writers Intizar Husain, “A Senseless Upheaval,” where the central character is a bygone era, excavated recently. ![]()
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