American science fiction writers

THE AUTHOR: GUY DE MAUPASSANT Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August, 1850 – 6 July, 1893) is a French writer who has written many poems, novels and short stories in his lifetime. But he is most well-known for his short stories, in fact considered as one of the fathers of modern short stories. He served as role model for O. Henry and Somerset in respect to his clever plotting of story. His stories paint a fascinating picture of French Society of 19th century. He generally wrote about…

The Heroes of Olympus is a series of novels that are a sequel to the Olympians and Percy Jackson series of novels by American author Rick Riordan. The series of novels is a combination of fantasy and mythological elements that make for some of the most entertaining mish mash of narratives. The novels are made up of narratives that describe the conflict between Roman and Greek demigods and the earth goddess, Gaea. The novels have a lot of Roma mythological elements in addition to several…

Fahrenheit 451 Book Report By: Jessica Sean Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian fiction novel written by Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury was an America well-known science-fiction author that best known for his Fahrenheit 451 novel that was published in 1953. This novel depicts the future of America that was totally different with the America in his era. The title of the book itself, Fahrenheit 451, represents the whole story in the novel. “F451-the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns…”…

Skynet from Terminator, Ultron from The Avengers, and the robots from I, Robot are all Hollywood dramatizations of robotics. These are all extreme examples that tend to strike worry into the hearts of the viewer. Comparing the initial upbringing of these three extreme examples to today’s robots, they are programmed to increase the quality of life for inhabitants on Earth. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is intelligence programmed into machines or robots to overcome challenges. Modern…

Gattaca is a science fiction film about the idea of science and technology in the late 20th century, that created an imaginary and futuristic society based on genetic engineering. Gattaca features the actors, Ethan Hawke (Vincent Anton Freeman), Jude Law (Jerome Eugene Morrow), Uma Thurman (Irene Cassini), and Loren Dean (Anton Freeman), to relay the story of a young boy who was conceived outside the eugenics program, and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination and fulfill his dream of…

to India is a novel by the English author Edward Morgan Forster, published in 1924 and took him 12 years to write, so he actually started writing in since 1912. It’s basically set against the British Raj or the British rule in india. This novel is fiction, however it’s based on Forster’s real life experience and incidents he actually witnessed but the rest of the story is definitely made up. Forster used to tutor a young Indian Muslim called Masood in England, they developed a close friendship…

One’s imagination is one’s reality, the mindset and possibility an event or action can be. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the novel presents a dystopian literature that emits an alternate reality of life. The story is gives off the government being broken and the society itself completely changed to the ways a few wanted which stripped women’s rights, United States of America changed to Republic of Gilead, and the Gilead made some women into Handmaids which used just for…

Dystopian Novels Portraying the Future The word “dystopia” comes out of the word “utopia” meaning a society that has almost, if not, perfect qualities. So, by this definition, “dystopia” refers to a society that has imperfect qualities and is sometimes considered evil. The concept was further explained and used in literature since it was a great subject for writing and many authors, up to this day, use this in their books since it adds some adventure and sci-fi which is currently trending and…

In the book, The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin the main idea and base’s of the story was to watch the personal development of the main character (2015). However, there was also a deeper meaning, which was that one's language helped to shape beliefs and culture which lead to a greater understanding of knowledge. The author's purpose was not to teach physics, but rather use physics to tell a story. The author achieved this by writing about space travel and outer planet communication, as well,…

The plot summary for the science fiction The End of Eternity is with a grand imaginative background but easy to read: Andrew Harlan, a protagonist, is Twissell's personal Technician.He extracted from Reality and into “Eternity”, a place that exists outside of time , altering Reality where necessary to control the flow of history with a kind of time machine called kettle, while the people recruited from various times throughout history for particular desired skills, from the 27th century, all the…