Inderpal Grewal focuses on the imaginary of drones. She analyzes George Brant’s play Grounded and Hari Kunzru’s short story “Drone” to enable a literary and cultural critique of weaponized drones, the agents of the technoscientific rationality of the U.S. empire. In Kunzru’s work, the drone visuality is equated with power and violence, and there is no counter visuality that can escape them. Grounded vivifies the drone-pilot as an emerging subjectivity that is both accomplice and victim of U.S. empire’s lethal military and policing power.