Cyberpunk

Science fiction as a literary genre has come a long way from Verne's search for the center of the earth and Wells' travel through time in his time machine. Contemporary science fiction is more willing to challenge the limits of possibilities and more eager to push the boundaries of human imagination. More importantly, science fiction often acts as a precursor to scientific thought, and forebodes new research; projects such as Google Glass can be traced to similar ideas presented much earlier in…

Thawing the Snow Queen; Feminism in Science Fiction Here’s the truth, women hate being society’s puppet; so Joan D. Vinge snipped her strings in the novel The Snow Queen. This author made Science Fiction into a tool. The genre allows controversial issues to be stripped and placed into a different setting; it probes the reader to reflect on his or her own beliefs--maybe even challenge those perceptions. Which is why Feminism could ripen under the pages of its wings. That ideology of equality…

also seen in the sci-fi thrilling movie, Tron: Legacy (2010). Tron: Legacy, is the remade version of Tron, originally released in 1982, just one year before Videodrome. Though Tron: Legacy carries a completely different plot than Videodrome, the cyberpunk themes seen in the film are repeated, though not all. Tron tells the story of a young man named Sam Flynn whose father, former CEO of ENCOM (a large and global video game corporation) who has also been missing for the past twenty years, is…

Research Essay The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction film about the artificial intelligence computers enslaving mankind. The movie portrayed a cyberpunk, dystopian universe in which machines took over the whole of humanity and incarcerated them in a computer program known as the Matrix. The film displayed a constant battle between machines and humans. The Matrix became a popular film that was thought-provoking and full of ambiguities about the virtual world in computers and reality. The…

Animation is on another new level. The greatest aspect of the animatronics is its ability to create unique, exciting, and persuasive genres from different parts of the planet. Among the best mediums for generating animes series in the continent is the Japanese cinema. It is well-known for generating some of the most popular animes and has swiftly multiplied across other different parts of the world. Other countries like USA, Australia, Canada and China are also among the finest mediums in the…

the ways in which identity can change along with the how bodies are perceived or not are emphasized. The contrast between the two stories lies in their differences as sub-genres, as Tiptree writes about feminist science fiction and Egan focuses on cyberpunk. Even the ways in which the two main characters are developed in relation to their bodies seem completely unrelated, and yet by comparing them, it becomes clear that the stories are much closer in their messages about the dangers of losing a…

If there was such a genre as "slacker cyberpunk," Whiskey Tango Foxtrot would firmly fit inside it. You might also find it on the "rehab science fiction" or "literary conspiracy drama" shelves at B&N. Repeated mentions of Edward Snowden on the back cover might lead a harried stockperson to shelve it in the "post-privacy politics" section. This is both the charm and the downfall of this novel; it's neither fish nor fowl, neither literary nor genre, neither serious nor sendup. For all this, it's…

Science fiction films like Blade Runner (1982) present the beliefs of the general political and societal voice during the time in which they were made and released. The film radiates the fears that China and Japan would soon become the dominant superpowers in the world, taking control of Western countries and marginalising its culture. Initially this is shown in the film in the form of the marginalisation of Western people. We see a largely Asian community when first introduced to Deckard at a…

the initial depiction of the character Julius Deane. The reason why the novel was successful was due to the new perspective on civilization through the nihilistic attitude many characters possessed that left readers intrigued in the short-lived cyberpunk movement. Julius Deane was a man of power that lived a luxurious life filled with the importance of appearances and the value of evolving machinery. This writing assignment will discuss the purpose of metaphor, the usage of irony and the…

I learned from our reading of short fiction that much like poetry, the size of the work does not dictate the depth of the information presented. I learned that often in shorter works it becomes all the more important to focus on the diction and details that the author chooses to included because it is almost always important. I learned that I personally have an easier time analyzing shorter works because they are less likely to include trivial details and wordy explanations of otherwise useless…