Our last 2016 MINDFUCK event couldn’t end on a more poignant note. What better finish could we have than the work immortalised in film by the incomparable David Bowie, in Walter Tevis’s gentle SF tale chronicling the seduction of innocence in “The Man Who Fell To Earth”.
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth – in Kentucky, disguised as a human – it`s with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth. Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by some of the new products Newton`s company brings to the market, and already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing.
We’ll be rounding off our last MindFuck event with a book discussion followed by face-painting and Bowie inspired shenanigans.
