The CIA Makes Sci Fi Unexciting: Dark Deeds and Derring-Do, 1950-Today (CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting)

The CIA Makes Sci Fi Unexciting: Dark Deeds and Derring-Do, 1950-Today (CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting)

Joe Biel
$9.95
Publication Date: March 1st, 2013
Publisher:
Microcosm Publishing
ISBN:
9781621068297
Pages:
160

Description

These five case studies offer a chilling glimpse into the negligence, greed, murder, and at times comical disorganization behind some of the CIA's most controversial secret operations. Science fiction could not have invented the influence the CIA had in the assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr, the AIDS virus, the killing of the leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement, the PATRIOT act, and the Iran-Contra affair. Smith makes radical claims, but instead of coming across as a raving conspiracy theorist he uses facts to write a believable, accessible alternative to mainstream histories that helps readers to contextualize current events and the anti-American backlash.

About the Author

Joe Biel is a writer, designer, filmmaker, teacher, activist, and founder of Microcosm Publishing, Cantankerous Titles, and co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He tours with his films on the Dinner and Bikes program and has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Utne Reader, Portland Mercury, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Readymade, Punk Planet, Profane Existence, and Maximum Rocknroll.

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