American science fiction writers

The Irony and Symbolism in “The Cask of Amontillado” Numerous writers employ literary devices to guide the readers’ understanding of the story’s complexities and general meaning. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a perfect example of such skills. The story takes place in Italy during the carnival season, and is a case of premeditated murder. Poe most famous literary works were gothic horror tales, which influenced the development of modern detective story. He fascinated the…

When most people think of Edgar Allan Poe’s work, they think of his affinity for writing about death. Upon further examination of Poe’s works, one notices many more aspects of writing than just the theme of death. Poe is drawn to write about the mentality deranged. Throughout many of his works, Poe explores illness of the human mind. The narrator of Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” starts the short story in a state of mental distress that escalates to the point of hysteria that can only be due to…

Artificial Intelligence has been a staple of speculative fiction for many years now. Who can forget the murderous “HAL” (so named because each letter is one higher in the alphabet than IBM) from 2001: A SPACE ODESSY? But lately Artificial Intelligence, or “AI” to the techno-hipster set, has been going mainstream in a big way. Life always imitates art, and now IBM has indeed staked its future on AI in the form of their “Watson” product. It is very early in the game, but the promise of AI…

Since the inception of the motion picture, countless filmmakers have made a point of infusing the same ancient tales into their movies for centuries. Some of the best artistic reflection is expressed through writing fiction. Not all movies that attempt to weave deeper themes into their stories succeed. James Cameron’s Avatar is a movie that executes this and does so extremely well. “Avatar is a joyous celebration of story craft and the visual possibilities of cinema.” Meyer (2017) Avatar is such…

In The cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe vengeance is served viciously. Two Friends, Montresor and Fortunato destiny is determined in two ways only, revenge and murder. In the story Poe uses a feeling of betrayal to build a mysterious and seductive character before ascending to his remarkable strategy to a state of suspense. In fact, throughout the story, the reader slowly realizes that Montresor is an unreliable narrator; that whatever insult Montresor believes Fortunato committed is…

Abstract This article analyzes the philosophical subjects of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Furthermore, its film modification, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. All the more particularly, this paper investigates Philip K. Dick’s request of what “What Constitutes a True Human Being?” and “the subject of being human” is shown in both Dick’s novel and Scott’s film alteration. Since Scott’s film is a free adjustment that separates essentially from its source…

Conception Rob Thomas originally wrote Veronica Mars as a young adult novel for publishing company Simon & Schuster. Prior to his first television job on Dawson's Creek, Thomas sold two novel ideas. One of these was provisionally titled Untitled Rob Thomas Teen Detective Novel, which formed the basis for the series. The novel had many elements similar to Veronica Mars, though the protagonist was male. Thomas's father was a vice-principal at Westlake High School near Austin, Texas, and the main…

The concept of human futility is a strong theme within both “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe as well as the Disney movie “Atlantis the Lost Empire”. Within each of these stories the authors, and creators bring a lot of wonderfully crafted themes to the text, but the most persistent ideal in each of these stories is that humans will fail in the end despite whatever efforts they use to attempt to avoid failure. Each story also has a…

world. Kurt originated from a wealthy family, but the trials of the time period initiated shifts in plans and goals that later influenced his writing career, and through his stories, both non-fiction and fiction alike, he laid out his perception on contemporary subjects in the form of satirical science fiction journeys. Born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was the third and youngest…

all mankind like it is feared. In addition, he wants to illustrate the sterility of the world without people and to expose the fact that earth will be around for a long time after the bombs, and nature will be over ruled. Bradbury, a fictional writer, uses a futuristic idea to make the people…