Statement of Aesthetics [excerpt] One of the aims I have for this manuscript is to blur the line between "literary" and "genre" fiction — to take the themes and tropes commonly used in genre works and use them to comment on the human condition. In Terra Incognita — both the manuscript proper and the novel I hope to build off it — I hope to explore the negative effects nationalism, paranoia, and xenophobia have on society. While this manuscript only concerns itself with...