ABSTRACT
The myths broadly suggest a telos, a predestined goal for American society, of which the nineteenth-century declarations and policies of Manifest Destiny are but one historical example. They justified in terms of a religious predestination the coast-to-coast appropriation of the North American continent by white Anglo-American settlers. The following section, in fact, will employ the myths of the American West and the notion of the Frontier as a regenerative space in a reading of a popular culture text from 1956, Philip K. Dick's early "pulp" science fiction novel The World Jones Made. The World Jones Made, the ethnogenesis element inherent in the migration of the drifters and the settler colonization on Venus of the mutants casts humans first as victims and then as benefactors in this myth dynamic. Science fiction just think of Star Wars and the Star Trek franchise can often be categorized in terms of the Western.
