Evan D. Fiction has long imagined humanity’s inevitable first contact with a species from beyond the Earth. Might these visitors be the colonial warlords H.G. Welles imagined as far back as 1897 in his novel The War of the Worlds? Perhaps they’ll be something more like the enigmatic protectors from Villeneuve’s Arrival. As if drawn up on the edge of Occam’s Razor, Landscape with Invisible Hand supposes that our new alien overlords might simply be the galaxy’s most ruthless capitalists.
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