Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

encompass the genre of science fiction and accentuate the main theme of sacrifice, although the authors portray the themes in different ways. In addition, the main character in the Hunger Games, Katniss and the main character in The Maze Runner, Thomas are both impelled to fight for their lives in artificial worlds which serves as the main conflict in both novels. However, the Hunger Games and The Maze Runner bare conspicuous differences such as the Hunger Games being set in a post-civil war and…

The author, James Dashner, gives each and every character in the novel a different sort of attractive trait. The ominous point of view substantially covers every aspect of what’s going on in the novel. The book isn’t just young—adult—post—apocalyptic science fiction; to me this book is a roller coaster of emotions and a constant pressure of the ongoing climax. This dystopian novel starts off with a young boy called Thomas who wakes up on an elevator box and has no idea of what’s going on. He…

in a post-apocalyptic world where people live underground because the surface is not habitable. The people rely on a giant centralized machine for their survival. This work, produced in 1909, provides an interesting entry into the man vs. machine concept. It provides a lens into the far future by interlacing apocalyptic imagery with hope. The novel also highlights the need for real human interactions that are not dictated by technology. “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is another…

influenced morbidity of writing Influences Books I Chose • No Country for Old Men: Won the National Book Award • All the Pretty Horses: New York Times bestseller, won National Book Award • The Road: Pulitzer Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction No Country for Old Men • Based on the Mexican-Texas border • Main Characters…

for defying convention and, fittingly, his contribution to the post-nuclear-apocalyptic genre ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’, does not follow this formula. ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’ follows two main characters: Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who tracks down and kills escaped androids, and John Isidore, a ‘chickenhead’ who has suffered brain damage from nuclear fallout or ‘dust’. Instead of an anarchic and apocalyptic society, the novel depicts a society that has experienced…

huge junkyard...commercialized society and culture” truly stood out to me. My first thought brought me to the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep where the world is slowly turning into kipple, rubbish produced from human interaction, in a post apocalyptic state, destructed by a nuclear global war. This dystopian novel, which I read…

Young adult dystopian fiction has changed the role of the female protagonist in ways other genres have yet to approach, placing female characters in a position to “recreate the worlds in which they live, making their societies more egalitarian, more progressive, and ultimately…

What comes to mind when people think science fiction? In reality, this depends on what literature the person has had experience with. I think you could accurately guess that the first thing a lot of people might come up with would be Hunger Games. However, some people might bring out more classic literature like War of the Worlds. You can confuse yourself more by asking someone what science fiction is. Everyone seems to have their own opinions on this subject and you might even start a…

explores the significance of the affects that science fiction movies have on society. Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with the imaginative concepts of futuristic science and technology such as time travel, parallel universes, space travel, and extraterrestrial life. The author states, “science fiction films are not about science; they are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. In science fiction films, disaster is rarely viewed…

Discussion on Definitions of Science Fiction In the first reading assignments of the class, we were asked to read about different definitions of Science Fiction through the history. To my surprise there were 9 pages, and the diversity of the definitions is a par the number of them. While reading the book, I also echoed back with the definitions and have a deeper understanding on them. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the first of its kind. Although Shelley considered the novel to be a horror story…