Hard science fiction

Fahrenheit 451 is overflowing with social commentary on every page. Ray Bradbury’s main goal while writing Fahrenheit 451 was to share with the reader his thoughts on censorship in his society. Specifically, the way television was being used for everything from news to entertainment. He agreed with George Orwell’s thoughts on books as an important source of intellectual and individual thinking, which was the main cause of his disappointment with schools and libraries for removing the use of…

Mirrors, such as multiplications, and narcissistic seductions, which point to a celibate eroticism, which must not account to anyone, but to himself, is the name that came to my mind to define this core of works that are one of the classic moments of the American imagination. Years that appears as “happy” nowadays, while then they appeared, as all the times, full of contradictions and tears. Every event is seen in the key of consumption, absorption, chaos of the metropolis par excellence, New…

Hegemony is recognized around the world through the dominance that countries have over other countries, though it is recognized mainly to exist among countries hegemony can exist among societies, cultures, and families by recognizing an individual within each group as the leader. However, there are countries, societies, and cultures that can break free of the hegemonic dominance through the process of emancipation. One sees the breaking of restraint in popular films and television shows. One…

is his own fan magazine. In 1940, he made his first professional sale - with the help of Robert Heinlein - to Script, a West Coast literary magazine (Weller). In November 1941, the pulp magazine Science Stories published his story, Pendulum, his first professional piece, and it appeared in Super Science Stories. During World War II, his local draft board did not draft him into the military because of his vision problems. By the end of 1942, he became a full-time paid writer. In 1943, he had…

To start off, I am not entirely the biggest sci fi enthusiast. I know nothing about pop culture or aliens and such. I think this is why I am so intrigued by Ready Player One already. It has a simple plot yet is filled with so many hidden complexities I have yet to learn about. Some parts of the book might as well be in a different language: Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Ringworld. I have no idea what these foreign words mean so, I am constantly looking references up and…

“Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and the sunlit blossom of that flower” (Carl Sandburg). This is a quote by Carl Sandburg. Carl Sandburg is a famous American Poet. Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6th, 1878 (Penelope Niven). Sandburg’s parents are August and Clara Sandburg who were immigrants from Sweden (Penelope Niven). Sandburg and his family were extremely poor (Academy of American Poets). At the age of 13, Sandburg quit…

As an establishing individual from the underground commix development of the late 1960s, Crumb built up a notoriety for a style and substance that was subversive, dim, mocking and to a great degree sexually express with the cognizant goal of not being endorsed by the Comics Magazine Association of America in this way not accepting the Comics Code Authority stamp on the cover. One of Crumb‟s manifestations, Fritz the Cat, turned into a most loved among his perusers and when Fritz the Cat was made…

The novel The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian novel in which the protagonist Offred is cut off from any outside information and is supposed to assume that she is constantly being spied on. Offred is a handmaid and is only valued for her ability to produce offspring as the world she lives is suffering from declining birth rates. Atwood incorporates several features of dystopia such as the idea of power, totalitarianism, and war. Atwood also includes the features…

In any lie, there is an element of truth. This rings true in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Her writing portrays a futuristic world that seems complete fiction at first, but when further examined shows a much more plausible world. Atwood utilizes the events of the past such as feminism, censorship, slavery, religion, and many other events to create the fictional world of Gilead that could easily become real life if allowed. On a first read, the story is entirely fictional. How could…

All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury teaches us that Jealousy can lead to bad things even when no harm was meant. Students lock Margo in a closed due to jealousy. People, especially children can do more than they think when jealousy is involved. Anger may also be an important theme in the story All Summer in a Day. Anger leads to jealousy so it may be a strong theme. Margo gets teased and bullied to no end by her fellow classmates all because of jealousy. Therefor Jealousy plays a big role in…