Abstract
Chapter Two explores space science fiction as a locus of enunciation for the representation of otherness in Franco’s Spain. In parallel with the constant reports of UFO activity, space technologies and alien worlds portrayed in literary and visual texts used to re-imagine social antagonisms and varied utopian longings. Spanish outer space imaginaries displaced the ideological coordinates of American science fiction that had proliferated during the height of the Cold War. In those narratives, aliens shared many traits with the communist infiltrators as popularized by the so-called “Red Scare” propaganda”. Spanish outer space fictions displayed new interpretations of extraterrestrial life determined by the political position of Franco’s Spain as the Fascist “Other” incorporated into the democratic capitalist bloc. This chapter examines utopian science fiction novels, radio-theater series, and comics books in which different political and social orders were imagined: the kiosk novels La saga de los Aznar (1953-1958) by Pascual Enguídanos (George H. White), Tomás Salvador’s novels La nave (1959) and Marsuf, vagabundo del espacio (1962), Diego Valor radio-theater series and comics (1953-1958), and comic books and cartons by creators who suffered an “inner exile”. To
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