Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

Gloria Skurzynski’s “Nethergrave” is a superior work of science fiction compared to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" because it has an important theme, has better charcterization, and is much more original. A Sound of Thunder and Nethergrave fit into the genre of science fiction because the use of futuristic technology to travel to new places is a key element in both plots. A Sound of Thunder features the age old fantasy of time travel and Nethergrave uses a computer to create an…

cultural attitudes and values. He was interested in this subject of study because since he was a little kid he was curious on how something would become popular over another. He began film studies his Senior year at Detroit University. Originally he wanted to be a movie critic but decided to become a teacher about book and film studies. He wrote a 500 page dissertation about Norman Mailer, known to be the first independent filmmaker. Dr. J read Mailer’s novels (a couple…

movie The Host and it was a fantastic and very detailed movie. The Host is about a young girl whose body gets taken over by a soul. A soul is an alien that has been placed into a human body so that they can survive. This movie is definitely a science fiction movie, aliens have basically taken over the human race and the seekers are trying to get the last of the humans to become one of them. The whole movie is full of the alien species invading the world. The movie is based off of a book by…

memories erased, but when I would try to think about how our memory works, I always felt as if I was in the dark about it. It is all a bunch of neurologically connected pieces of protein, in less than a cube foot of space. The movies I watched were science fiction, but erasing memory is actually possible now. When I started to ponder on all this it left me wondering if erasing memories is indeed ethical. Even if our memory is just a bunch of neurological connections of proteins,…

The book and the movie of The Giver are quite different, but are similar in various ways. One of the first things I noticed was that the setting in The Giver was very different from the book to the movie. In the book, the community seemed almost old-fashioned (besides the genetic engineering), while in the movie, the whole place was very futuristic and used a great deal of technology. Similarly, both communities included the boundary and Elsewhere. From the book, I imagined that the community…

When comparing the positive reaction of the aliens in The Lathe of Heaven, to the negative reaction demonstrated in The Martian Chronicles, it creates an opposite conclusions and environments in the story. Both stories contain the theme that when humanity is lost in a higher power, their world becomes chaotic. In The Martian Chronicles, the humans lost their humanity destroying the earth and their new home in mars, likewise in The Lathe of Heaven, Haber lost his humanity, as he attempted to…

Introduction The book entitled “The Final Battle” is written by William C Dietz. It is a story of cyborgs and military science-fiction. This battle is between the Hudathans (the alien) and the Human. This is the war of all time because of the protagonist and antagonist in the story and then the special tricks like those cyborgs that makes the story more efficient. War doesn’t determined who is right but but is left. Summary Nearly twenty years after , the alien called as Hudathans who were…

2001: a space odyssey is a science-fiction novel published in 1968, written by Arthur C. Clarke and a science-fiction film released in (the same year as the novel) 1968, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The following are all the differences I noticed while watching the film; No narration: I feel there should have been at least some narration in the beginning, so people can better grasp what is happening (i watched this film with my mother, who hasn't read the book, and i had to explain some…

The Science fiction genre is always developing. Looking at District 9 and Avatar (both released in 2009) we can say that some elements of each are more evolved than others but as a whole they are equally evolved, and very similar in many ways. Science fiction has certain key teachers or themes. Such as improbable settings, aliens, futuristic scenarios or an alternate history, space, travel, advanced technology as well as they way it is filmed including special effects. These are what is…

“Take me to your leader,” however, the alien inside enters the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and requests to meet with a paleontologist. This peculiar scene marks the beginning of Robert J. Sawyer’s Calculating God, a novel that boldly discards science fiction’s stereotypical “alien narrative” by defying all preconceived notions. What if, asks Sawyer, there were different ways of understanding the universe? What if aliens landed on Earth with scientific proof of God’s existence? And—to…