American science fiction writers

Consider an instance when you were required to make a choice. A time when you understood all the facts and recognized rationally what path you should follow. However, once it came down to making the choice for some odd reason you didn’t use your head at all. Instead, you realized that you had to act on what you felt because somehow that feeling you felt was stronger than the opposing logical choice. We as humans are caught in an internal struggle because our heads lead us one way while our…

In science fiction, dystopias are used to depict the possible future of a world or city that has been through conflicts that developed the current world, in the text. Two scholarly journals that examine dystopias are ““Engaging “Apolitical” Adolescents: Analyzing the Popularity and Educational Potential of Dystopian Literature Post-9/11,” by Melissa Ames, and ““It Was the City Killed the Beast:” Nature, Technophobia, and the Cinema of the Urban Future,” by James Clapp. Three short stories that…

Intro: In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale wears no outside symbol of shame, yet buries it deep within. He has no law that condemned him to bear a letter marking him as sinful -- like the A pinned to Hester -- however, he is constantly reminded by his roommate. As the victim of Hester and Dimmesdale's affairs, Roger Chillingworth devotes his remaining life to forever remind Arthur of his sin. He tells Hester “few secrets can escape an investigator, who…

Joseph Cambell’s hero's journey, was based on his idea of a monomyth. Which sparked the idea of a young boy starting a journey at a very young age, by the well known Orson Scott Card. Orson Scott Card was inspired by this in order to create the award winning novel, Ender’s Game. This novel is about a boy named Ender and how he began his hero’s journey at the age of six to later on in his training to be tricked into doing something so immense, which he did not anticipate would have happened so…

Truman Capote is one of the most famous authors in the modern era, one his most famous works being In Cold Blood. Capote wrote this book in a rather unique way. Though he was present for many of the events that took place and might be considered crucial to the way certain things played out, he did not include himself in the story so as to make it less autobiographical and more of a novel. Regardless of the lack of Capote's presence in the story itself, it is clear in certain places of the book…

The Tell-Tale Heart Research In 1843, Edgar Allan Poe’s 2,200- word first person unreliable narrative short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” was published. Edgar Allan Poe was a successful editor, literacy critic and American writer who wrote short stories and poetry. The Tell-Tale Heart is known for its unnamed narrator’s insanity and classifies Poe’s writing as a gothic fictional story. The narrator explains in the opening of the story that he killed the old man, but it was not for passion nor…

When discussing a work of Science Fiction one thing the reader needs to keep in mind is the novum, or the element of the story without which the plot would disintegrate. Normally, the novum of a story is something that is tangible in the universe that the work takes place. Aliens, space travel, and super computers are common novums that the reader can visually see working throughout the course of the story and are easy to pinpoint. Sometimes the novum of the story is not quite so visible though…

What if you had the power to kill someone just by writing their name in a book? – That is DeathNote, arguably Tsugumi Ohba’s most acclaimed anime series. A suspenseful thriller that tells the story of a bright young Japanese high school student, Light Yuba, who happens across an old tattered book – the DeathNote. The series sends the audience on a rollercoaster ride as Light Yuba learns about the book, the conditions that must be met for using it, and the implications and complications that…

A Story Without Animals In the book Life of Pi there are two different stories as to what happened after the sinking of the Tsimtsum, one with animals and one without animals. The author leaves it up to the reader to decide which story is true and which story is not. When looking at the facts in the story it should be obvious to the reader that the story without animals is the true story and that the story with animals was made up as a way for Pi to cope with the horrific events of the…

stories along with writing some screenplays in Hollywood. Richard Connell He won the O. Henry Memorial Prize, the prize for best short story, twice for his short stories “A Friend of Napoleon” and “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell was the son of a writer for a local newspaper who became a congressman and influenced him very much. He was on the front lines in World War I. He married, but didn’t have any kids. Connell's short story “The Most Dangerous Game” was affected by his role as a soldier…