Vanishing Glaciers, the Becoming-Unextinct of Microorganisms, and Fathering a More-Than-Human World: Climate Change Horror in the Alps

• Published in: Fafnir Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 11 - 24
• Main Author: Michael Fuchs
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 01.12.2019
• Subjects: anthropocene; austrian film; climate fiction; eco-horror; permafrost; science fiction

Marketed as Austria’s response to The Thing (1982), the horrorscience fiction hybrid Blutgletscher (2013) depicts the re-emergence of seemingly extinct (or not known to have existed) microorganisms from thawing permafrost, which combine and recombine the genetic information of any lifeform they cont...