Abstract
This study discusses the post-humans in the two science fiction works, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick from the viewpoint of Julia Kristeva’s “abject.” In these two works, clones and androids are used for the extension of human life and exploitation of the new colony for humans, and their bodies are regarded as “trash.” Their bodies are “abject,” which means the disgusting thing located between “I” and “not I.” This study states that abject existence can threaten to dissolve the subject by dissolving the border, and the fear of the post-humans in science fiction is based on the contemporary angst about the possible threat from the neighboring beings with diverse appearances.
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