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Empathy Empathy is a major theme in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Phillip K. Dick. Dick writes about empathy several times throughout the novel and how both humans and androids express it. In the novel the new Nexus 6 model androids have the ability to vividly express human emotion. Before the nexus 6 model androids, the biggest difference between humans and androids was the ability to care for another living being. Are these new Nexus 6 androids capable of learning and expressing…

The latest broadcast is the eruption of God’s revival and the Aliens take over. The doomsday, without Hollywood glittering effects, erupted the world in flames. God’s voice boomed. Angry. Betrayed. Destructive. How could his people forget his ways? How could they embrace technology and science so readily? And they, the Aliens, questioned the same. How could they? The humans. Embrace such controversial power when science was right in the palm of their hand? Before the world twisted black, I…

In 1977 the American novelist Phillip K. Dick published A Scanner Darkly, a semi-autobiographical story set in the then future of June 1994. Taking place in an anti-utopia Orange County, California, the novel is an all-embracing depiction of drug culture and drug use, both recreational and abusive. The main character and protagonist of the story is Bob Arctor, junkie and drug dealer, who happens to be living a parallel life as Agent Fred, a law enforcement agent assigned to bring down Arctor. In…

‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ is a post-apocalyptic world where the earth has been reduced to a ball of mud and rubble. The radioactive dust rains down, slowly degrading the remaining life. The life that is left has become extremely valuable, and people keep animals as their most sacred possession, those who can’t afford one buy false, electric ones. Almost all of human society has emigrated to the colonies on Mars, and anyone left is forcefully encouraged by government. In the…

Have you ever seen the movie Blade Runner written by Ridley Scott or read the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly? Well if you have read one of them amazing stories then you will know what I am going to talk about. I am going to talk about how those two stories are so much alike. In both of these stories there is a monster that is considered unacceptable by our “normal” social standards; they are deemed outcasts by the people who are hunting for them. People are afraid of the monsters unnatural…

We have all been in the same spot: our favorite book gets its chance on the big screen. The anticipation builds up as trailers are released and small bits of this fictional world is revealed, but when we go to see it, we see that the movie is in fact nothing like the book. They have changed some important details or just left entire facts out. Those changes can result in an overall tone shift from the book to the movie. All of a sudden, a character who was the lowly underdog is transformed into…

Life is ripe with complex and unanswered questions. Often, contemplation of these difficult topics can enhance an individual’s understanding of both themselves and the world around them in meaningful ways. Despite the various misconceptions and stereotypes that frequently surround the genre, science fiction is often written for these types of introspective purposes. Although science fiction authors typically write fantastic tales that take place in a wide variety of futuristic societies, there…

Blade Runner is a science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott in which Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a retired blade runner, a cop specialized for hunting down replicants, robots that are as smart as and look like humans but only have a four year lifespan, has to hunt down four replicants who escaped enslavement. Deckard finds Racheal, who is revealed to be a fifth replicant who was given human memories as an experiment. After hunting down and “retiring”, with bullets, two of the replicants it…

Coming from a person who isn’t a big Science-Fiction fanatic, the way Andy Stone gave his speech over Science-Fiction movies, instantly made me feel giddy like a little girl on Christmas morning. The way Andy Stone started off his speech talking about Christmas first had me questioning his thought process, but after he made it flow into the rest of his introduction, which lead him into his body points about Science-Fiction. He also had a great thesis that helped the receivers understand what his…

The film Blade Runner of 1982, poses the question of “what makes a human? And what makes a machine?”. If ultimately humans are trying to make “machines” just like themselves, then why are they not treated like humans. If humans are trying to create an “artificial life” that embodies human, they should treat it like a living life rather than a disposable object. Blade runner is essentially about Deckard (Harrison Ford), is a “blade runner”, who is a specialized assassin that his hired to find and…