The Nuclear Mutant Trope In Sci-Fi, Explained
Science fiction has a lot of stories that get retold over and over. In the 50s and 60s, one of the most common sci-fi outings was the attack of a giant monster. Those monsters almost always took the form of massive versions of regular animals, and they almost always grew due to exposure to nuclear radiation. Science fiction often depicts dramatized versions of common fears. The advancement of science andtechnology has a lot of drawbacks, and the genre exists to depict them in extreme cases....