Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well
…ist fantasy. Yet Zero K pursues transcendence in the same manner as a comic-book blockbuster: by cavorting around an Eastern no-place where life is expendable. The protagonist of Zero K is Jeffrey Lockhart, son of of a billionaire finance king Jeffrey’s stepmother Artis is seriously ill. Facing death, she decides to have her body frozen by a group called the Convergence, who will, in theory, wake her at some point in the future when there is a cur…
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