Science fiction and fantasy lift us up, showing us marvelous worlds fired by pure imagination, encouraging us to dream of a better future or a more magical existence… except when they descend into horrific descriptions of torture and sadistic devices that almost break your will just by reading about them. In fact, some of the greatest torture […]
From J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise, to Stephen King’s Dark Tower, to Tolkien’s two, the genres certainly offer their fair share of sky-scraping edifices (we’ve even put together a list of our favorites), but they hardly serve as a monolithic piece of imagery—in fact, the tower so rich a symbol that one can stand for any number […]
