Jonathan McCalmont’s review of Michel Houellebecq’s H. P. Lovecraft : Against the World, Against Life begins as follows:

At a time when the Anglo-American SF scene is falling over itself to lay claim to any and all works of literature that use SFnal ideas

I am intrigued, and your homework for today is to answer the following questions:

1. Is it true? (Please cite examples.)

2. What does it mean? (For example, are Anglo-American writers trying to claim that Jules Verne was really British?)

3. What evidence can you find to support the suggestion that such behavior is particularly prevalent at this time (as opposed to, say, 50 years ago)?

The rest of the review is interesting as McCalmont has actually read some of Houellebecq’s fiction.