...This chapter talks about false promises of the molecular revolution, the persistence of junk, and the victory of stasis over entropy. It reviews the cinematographic presence of junk in cyberfictions, such as Alfred Elton van Vogt’s Voyage of the Space Beagle, Philip K. Dick’s...

.... The chapter also talks about Alfred Elton van Vogt and his 1950 novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle, which tells the story about a carnivorous alien stalking the crew of an exploration ship in outer space. In The Voyage of the Space Beagle, van Vogt invented the term...