It is impossible to know which came first: Robinson Crusoe and Friday, or El Físico Nuclear and Philip Warpdrive? A comparison of dates does not provide the answers in this case, as it does in such sciences as archeology and paleontology. Since El Físico Nuclear is a postmodern phenomenon, he is not subject to the laws of time and space. He essentially exists outside timespace as we know it. Definite conclusions in terms of genetic, or even generic, connections are therefore useless. It is fitting, however, to look at the texts appositionally--that is, my placing them side by side in a cultural vacuum and identifying similarities and differences. I will make such critical essays available on-line as I become aware of them.

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The connection between El Físico Nuclear and H.P. Lovecraft's work is at best an uncomfortable one. The humanist aspect of The Man in the Psychic Mask loathes the universe as Lovecraft portrays it: dark, dangerous, beyond humanity's understanding or control, full of frightening aliens who make use of lost sciences to conquer our world. The scientific side of The Physicist, however, sees that this vision of the cosmos is a true one, that the cosmos is larger and more complex than even he can understand, let alone translate into a moral vision that makes sense for a species still controlled (as he is not) by its biology and evolutionary history. El Físico Nuclear has shifted many times from one side of this spectrum to the other. Fortunately for us, his darker vision appears only in his music, as in his bands El Físico Nuclear and the New, Improved! and Echidna Rex, while he realizes his humanist vision by actual battle with the forces of chaos found in Lovecraft's pantheon of the Elder Gods. The H.P. Lovecraft Archive is a very good place to begin exploring this frightening (and frightened) author's vision of the cosmos...
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Here are two essays newly placed in this archive. The first, a lecture delivered by one of our archivists, Philip Katzenellenbogen, on the matter of El Físico Nuclear as post modern myth. The other is a translation by archivist Hermester Barrington of a chapter from Nicolas Bourbaki's famous treatise A Brief History of Invisible Cities, Imagined Communities,and Visionary Empires of the Twentieth Century. This chapter in particular deals with the Nucleares, only one of the many tentacles of the octopus that is the El Físico Nuclear Project. It would be wise for the forces of Semper Ubi Sub Ubi to learn what Heracles knew: that only by killing the larger, hidden head can one destroy the Hydra.

The brilliant novel Libra by Don DeLillo, more than any other text (with the possible exception of Invisible Man), informs the El Físico Nuclear discourse. It explores the possibilitiy that Lee Harvey Oswald was discovered after the CIA/Illuminati/Space Bankers who were planning to kill Kennedy had already created a fictitious figure/assassin whose profile Oswald just happened to match perfectly. That is, the assassin was a figment of the Company's imagination until Oswald happened to show up. Life imitating art, in other words. So too did El Físico Nuclear come into the world, after he had been created by a small committee of literati, malcontents, and poetasters. The problem is that no one knows exactly what to do with The Physicist, now that he is here...

A photograph of El Físico Nuclear with his second favorite philosophical treatise, Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.











William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" is certainly an impressive piece of literature, but does it tell us more than it appears to at first glance? For example, what does it have to say about Marshmallow Peeps? Are they cute little candies, or Harbingers of Doom?

El Físico Nuclear was one of the forces behind the Ekumen, an attempt by the Hainish (a race which created most of the humanoid life in the known universe) to reconnect with the lost members of their family. Ursula K. Le Guin, in her attempts to record these efforts, in such works as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, actually did a better job of using the novel as a means of portraying the Tao Te Ching. It is therefore fitting that she should have translated a new version of Lao Tzu's classic text, and even more fitting that she has recorded it in her alto voice: full, rich and calming, like a river, like the Tao.


James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Last of the Mohicans, featuring Hawkeye, who wandered the vast wasteland of the American wilderness; El Físico Nuclear wanders the vast wasteland of the outer reaches of space, of the Leng Plateau, the dark nooks and crannies of time-space. Most of the authors of the El Físico Nuclear material have read or will have read his work. Wince at his ridiculous situations. Laugh at his wooden characters. Bemoan his turgid prose. Praise him.
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Herman Melville
El Físico Nuclear has said that he is "not unlike the greatest character in all Anglo-American literature, the protagonist of Moby DicK". To whom was he referring? Ishmael? Captain Ahab? The Whale? The Pequod? Queequeg? Read this exciting novel and find out for yourself!

Read Moby Dick online.
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quijote El Físico Nuclear's defense of what many would deem outmoded principles, and his seemingly futile efforts to lead our peoples toward his three pronged goal of Truth! Science! and Fair Play! have led some to compare him to a certain hidalgo, from a place in La Mancha whose name I do not wish to remember. Read this charming tale of a mad visionary who sees truer than any of us today.
Read Don Quixote
online. Though this version is searchable, I cannot recommend the translation. Cohen's translation of the tale of the Knight of the Sad Countenance is preferable.



This amazingly readable tale of man ruling a kingdom on a desert island with only his faithful native companion Friday is not unlike the life of El Físico Nuclear on this desolate planet, assisted by only his puppy-like friend, Philip Warpdrive.
Read Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe online.
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
What happens when a theocracy goes wrong. We can be sure that El Físico Nuclear would never cut off our heads and put them on poles, consort sexually with the natives of the planet, or flee his worshippers when they had decided that it was time for the sacred king to die. Also, his last words would be much more cryptic than merely "The horror, the horror"--they would probably be meaningless phonemes in some cryptic alien tongue which would bring doom to those who heard them. But I could be wrong. This text is also the source for Francis Ford Coppolla's Apocalypse Now.
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"What I want is a good strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry." This is the voice of Ignatius J. Reilly, the protagonist of the incredible and hilarious novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (New York: Grove Press, 1981) 232. There is no doubt that El Físico Nuclear would make a wonderful monarch.
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Alan Moore had written his first draft of the incredible graphic novel Watchmen (published New York, DC Comics, 1986-1987) to include El Físico Nuclear as one of the central figures, one might say the prime mover of events in the text. Unfortunately, early on in the writing process Moore decided not to include The Physicist. Facts about the motives for the decision are few, and theories are multiple. Regardless, the storyline changed considerably as a result. Without giving away too much to those who have not yet read this amazing narrative, the ending was to take place not in the Antarctic but at El Físico Nuclear's Templo Científico in the Himalayas. Likewise, humanity was not to be duped into coöperation and altruism. Instead, a dormant gene in our genome was to have been awakened, that would still have allowed us the full range of our creativity, emotions, and whatever else constitutes our humanity, and yet decreased by 73% our inclination to act violently. There is no doubt that this would have made a much shorter work, since much of the action in the text comes out of the tension between Adrian Veidt and the other characters, and also one which was much less interesting. Furthermore, Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan were not introduced until El Físico Nuclear was dropped from the story. Still, it would have been pleasant to see El Físico Nuclear take his rightful place beside the Comedian, Sally Jupiter, and Night Owl.

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