Science Fiction Dying

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Science fiction is based off on fictional ideas that seem nearly impossible to accomplish for any regular human being. Science fiction usually based the future or out in the space in different galaxies. Most of the time science fiction stories, ideas, or movies will never are or will become true. Although science fiction seems to be dying because writers have been using the same ideas over and over again that people have become used to them. However, I disagree with these speakers on their perspective of how they see science fiction because they may have the same ideas, but they are always being used in different ways.

In the first poem we read, "The End of Science Fiction" the speaker talked about how the genre, science fiction, is dying. In the speaker's point of view I'd say that he wants the genre to be based here on Earth instead of outer space or unrealistic activities going on in a regular scifi story. The speaker would talk about new inventions or ideas for science fiction based on ideas
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In the first poem, the speaker says that science fiction needs to invent new ideas for it to be restored to its true meaning. Then in the second poem, the speaker hates on the science fiction writers for using the same ideas that previous writers have already used before. However, both of these speakers aren't in their shoes so they wouldn't know how difficult it is to come up with new ideas in the science fiction would. Many or most of the ideas have already been taken by previous writer and their only option is to use those same ideas, but these science fiction writers use it in a different way from one another. The science fiction writers of today have it the hardest because they might think they may have come up with a new idea, but most likely its already been used in the past. At least they change up the idea in a way that may have never been used

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