Camp of the Saints
By Max Musson: The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des saints) is a 1973 French apocalyptic novel by Jean Raspail. The novel depicts what was in 1973 a largely hypothetical setting wherein Third World mass immigration to France and the West reaches such frantic proportions that it leads to the destruction of Western civilization. Now more than forty years after the publication of this book, the theme of which is increasingly being seen as…
Elysium
By Heordredenn: Film Review: Elysium, written, directed and co-produced by Neill Blomkamp, released August 2013. It is 2154. The Earth is an overpopulated, impoverished, environmentally degraded ruin, with civilization falling apart. But high above a vast, silver-white wheel structure hangs in the sky, the last island of peace, order and civilization, the great orbital habitat Elysium, now home to the global elite of the cosmopolitan super-rich. That is the premise of South African director Neill…