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30 Cards in this Set
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Distance |
distancing, the pulling back from "reality" in order to see it better, is perhaps the essential gesture of SF. It is by distancing that SF achieves aesthetic joy, tragic tension, and moral cogency. Spinrad(Iron Dream) |
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Strange Characters |
Although never represented as individuals, the Tralfamadorians provide the philosophy of time and free will that underlies the novel. ("Slaughterhouse-Five." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 258-277. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016. |
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Big Ideas from "more Knowledgeable" Civilizations |
the Tralfamadorians, for whom time is not a linear progression of events, but a constant condition: "All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist." All beings exist in each moment of time like "bugs in amber," a fact that nothing can alter. ("Slaughterhouse-Five." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 258-277. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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Grey choices |
The blurred lines between good and evil also make judgments of guilt and innocence very difficult to make. ("Ender's Game." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 99-121. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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Blurred lines between hero and villan |
In revealing the truth at the moment of victory, Ender's Game addresses both the physical and moral conflicts of the story at the same time.("Ender's Game." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 99-121. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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A Sense of Direction |
“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction |
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Allows for creative Heroes |
Even from an early age, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin knows he is different from all the children around him. ("Ender's Game." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 99-121. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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Makes people think about the future |
"Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us." -Isaac Asimov |
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Speculates what people are and will become |
As yet, though we live in a culture in which images are the dominant currency of communication, we have been unable to form an adequate picture of the future. Despite the new electronic power to create instant image flow, the ability to see the more diffuse Postmodern connections . . . has become more difficult. . . . It is harder to visualize a multinational identity than a local entity. We can only see the world by forming a picture through various specialized mediations. . . . We now lack a convincing vision...” Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science FictionBy Scott Bukatman |
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explores the end |
"At the end of man's spiritual or rational evolution " Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science FictionBy Scott Bukatman |
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it allows for analysis of ourselves |
“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.” ― Ray Bradbury |
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It allows for a different world view |
“One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy” ― William Gibson |
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It ties to real World Discoveries |
"Its Clear the scientific research theory and practice have a considerable and sometimes polarizing affect on science fiction Science Fiction Prototypes Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Future and LoveScience Fiction -BD Johnson |
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Opens peoples minds to think about possible futures |
But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future -Eileen Gunn |
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It allow for scientific speculation outside the bounds of research |
But science-fiction writers do get to talk about the real meaning of research. We're not beholden to skittish funding bodies and so are free to speculate about the full range of impacts that new technologies might have The Purpose of Science Fiction How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology. By Robert Sawyer |
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it demands thinking forward on both current and speculated discoveries |
At the core of science fiction is the notion of extrapolation, of asking, "If this goes on, where will it lead?" The Purpose of Science Fiction How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology. By Robert Sawyer |
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It Makes People think about the past present and future |
“I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.” ― Kage Baker |
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It Creates a community |
“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.” -Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices |
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it gives control and power to whom the author wants with advanced technology |
Slaughterhouse-Five Billy Pilgrim does not act so much as he is acted upon. If he is not captured by the Germans, he is kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians ("Slaughterhouse-Five." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 258-277. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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it creates weird circumstances that give new perspective to old ideas |
Billy Pilgrim, in his travels through time, "has seen his own death many times" and is unconcerned because he knows he will always exist in the past. ("Slaughterhouse-Five." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 258-277. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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it creates Strange settings and events that catch the reader off guard and make them think |
"tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who is "unstuck" in time. ("Slaughterhouse-Five." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 258-277. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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It makes new and interesting obstacles in forms of Technology Aliens etc that make the character overcome them in unique ways |
"the International Fleet has branded him as different by implanting a device that monitors his every move. " ("Ender's Game." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 99-121. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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It Creates new societies both on earth and other worlds for the reader to explore and try to understand |
"First, he is a "Third"—an extra child that under ordinary circumstances would not be allowed in school" ( "Ender's Game." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 99-121. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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It allows for more intelligent and questioning heroes. which can more directly bring up deep issues |
" The value of intelligence is thoroughly examined in Ender's Game. The children whom the International Fleet selects to attend Battle School have high IQs and rank the highest in their classes and schools. Yet, intellectual ability does not always ensure a child's success in Battle School. " ( "Ender's Game." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 99-121. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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it addresses racial issues by pitting the entire human race against a common threat. |
he heritage of individual characters is still an important factor for many of them. Cooperation between people of different backgrounds is essential for Earth to fight the buggers, ( "Ender's Game." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 99-121. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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Introduces an interesting Setting |
Setting is vitally important in the genre of science fiction—not just because it might involve the future or another galaxy, but because it usually involves great social changes. ( "Ender's Game." Novels for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 99-121. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.) |
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Can introduce and analyze historical events from and outside perspective |
The most important historical event which informs Slaughterhouse-Five took place almost a quarter of a century before the novel was published. On February 13 and 14, 1945, allied aircraft dropped incendiary bombs on the German city of Dresden ( "Slaughterhouse-Five." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 258-277. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016. ) |
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it Creates and Feeds pop culture so that the themes of the book have and opportunity to become wide spread |
An important element of Slaughterhouse-Five is Billy Pilgrim's abduction by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In the 1990s, "alien abduction" has become a well-recognized cultural myth, as countless individuals claim to have been abducted by aliens from outer space ( "Slaughterhouse-Five." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 258-277. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016. ) |
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Shows the very best and very worst of humanity |
Always dystopia or utopia |
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it Lets the reader see things differently |
All beings exist in each moment of time like "bugs in amber," a fact that nothing can alter. "Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." ( "Slaughterhouse-Five." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 258-277. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Mar. 2016. ) |
