Hard science fiction

author that my class studied this semester. I enjoyed his many metaphors and his abstract descriptions in his story “Fahrenheit 451”, but I found the book hard to read due to the flow his writing had. Writing, like art, comes in many different fashions. Poe, a short story writer with a gothic style, and Bradbury, a highly descriptive science fiction author, write about very different topics, yet both of…

A Summary of The Handmaid’s Tale Imagine an American in which the government leaders are dead, the Constitution is suspended, a religiously guided regime is now in power, and women are relegated to the roles of baby makers. This is the reality for Offred, (her new name, since her true name is never revealed) who recounts the story of her transition from a typical college girl to a Handmaid. In A Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood tells of a dystopian world through the memories of one of the…

Kindred is a science fiction book written by Octavia Butler which explores slavery, interracial relationships, family history, love, hate, and fear through time travel. The main character and narrator is Edana who goes by Dana, an African American woman newly married to Kevin who is white in 1976. Dana and Kevin have just moved from an apartment in Los Angeles to a home of their own a few miles away in Altadena. In the prologue Dana’s arm was crushed inside a wall in her home, and had to be…

CHAPTER THREE Klingon 1. Inception of Klingon Klingon is a language made up for popular science fiction television series called Star Trek. It tells the adventures of a spaceship Enterprise and characters on this vehicle. This language was designed for a particular alien race Klingons. During watching the show, we may encounter many alien races like The Romulans, the Ferengi or The Klingons. We can see that they speak in their own language when talking among themselves. It makes watching…

Why would a society suppress and disable its citizens from having a choice? In Aldous Huxley’s science fiction novel, Brave New World, the government regulates how civilization functions by controlling every aspect of it. All of their abilities and personality traits are either decided before birth or conditioned into them during youth; they do not have the right to decide their fate. Huxley does not give the citizens in Brave New World the ability to choose in order to ridicule the restricted…

Introduction- The Time Machine is a book of adventure and science. The Time Traveler discovers what the future will be in 802,701 AD. H.G. Wells incorporates the political standpoint of late Victoria England. He is trying to point out how troubled the future will be if the current society doesn't change its ways. If not, the society will become the Eloi, terrified of the Morlocks. The Morlocks are strong and terrifying. Key Idea 1- The Time Traveler creates a small replica of the bigger…

ice that could freeze anything within seconds of contact? A big plot driver in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle is the made-up bio-weapon called Ice-9 which does exactly that. When Dr. Asa Breed says, “When it [the rain] fell, it would freeze into hard little hobnails of ice-nine—and that would be the end of the world!” he clearly shows how dangerous this weapon is to the entire world (Vonnegut 50). It’s very existence would be a bigger threat than the atomic bomb. But the danger of Ice-9,…

As humans we are obsessed with what the future holds. For years people have made up stories about what the future will look like. We can look back through different science fiction books and movies to see what people thought the end of the world would look like or what the world would look like in 100 years. Popular examples of this can be seen in: The Jetsons, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Enders Game, War of the Worlds, 2012, Brave New World, and so many others. These different books and…

Have you ever imagined a perfect community with Sameness? In the science fiction novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a community where everyone is the same, they use Sameness. It is a controlled community where everyone has fewer choices to make and the community chooses for them. Having Sameness is more of a disadvantage than because no one would have the freedom of choice and life is going to be dull for them. When everything is the same within the community, Sameness is more of a…

are toying with the concept of putting AI into our daily interaction. It's an exciting idea. But little known to us, the idea of AI has been around for a long time. It exists in movies, video games, books, and magazines. One of the most notable science fiction book about AI is the Neuromancer. The book tells us the story about the struggle between two AIs, the Neuromancer and the Wintermute, and the antagonist, Case, who a human got caught in the middle. We will exam…