Evil Empire 119of the Year Million—A Scientific Forecast.” They are an image of what
we and our world might become, and in this crucible of past and future,
they crystallize the truth of the present into which they arrive.
While the novel was being serialized, British forces in the Northwest
Province of India repeatedly clashed with Pashtun tribesmen, and in
Southern Africa the year ended with the British colony of Natal annexing
Zululand. In Wells’s carnivalesque inversion, Martians from the future
show the monstrousness of the world Britain had made, and make the
Home Counties the battleground on which its empire is smashed.bloomberg’s response to Trump’s Space Force announcement was to
commission eight designers to create a logo for this new branch of the
military. David Reinfurt proposed a gold-rimmed white circle with the
words “UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE” in black around the outside,
so stretched as to be virtually illegible. Reinfurt describes his design as
“empty at its center... a black hole of sorts, sucking anything that comes
too close into its vortex, including even its own name.” So while it is not
likely to be adorning space armor or photon torpedoes any time soon, it
is an apt metaphor for capital, whose logic demands the economy must
constantly expand, distorting everything and leaving nothing untouched.
Trump’s announcement was made just two days before the second
anniversary of the world premiere of Roland Emmerich’s Indepen-
dence Day: Resurgence (2016), the belated—some might say unwanted—
sequel to his 1996 box-office hit Independence Day. The film opens in a
world transformed by alien technologies salvaged from the wrecks of
the defeated invaders, and by a Pax Americana that ensures increased
international cooperation to defend Earth from future threats. In the
NAFTA-era original, a significant part of which is set so close to the