ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Puerto Rican narratives that belong to the category of Gothic science fiction and that take as their starting point, or as a historical referent, the US invasion and its consequences for the island's population. The short story "El 'Terminator' boricua" by Jose E. Santos and the film Los condenados by Roberto Buso-Garcia, take the encounter with the other, a product of the voyage, as well as the ideas of utopia and dystopia that we can find in Gothic science fiction. Arturo, as the Terminator—the destroying machine—is the soldier who travels through time to prevent the other soldier from achieving his goal. The ghost-zombies of the children in Los condenados are the inhuman residue of medical colonization; they are the barbarism in opposition to Doctor Puttnam' civilization. In any case, pro-independence supporters, women, and children seem to say in chorus, "I'll be back"—and their return rearticulates, through horror and mystery, the occupation of the island.
