Science fiction short stories

Student Body: An Argument in Support of the Hypothetico-Deductive Method in “The Death of Science?” by Dr. Minos Talgia The major problem that Dr. Talgia discusses is the blind acceptance of the alien science that is proposed to replace the Hypothetico-Deductive method. Surely, the changes made to traditional scientific methods by the alien technology define a different form of advancement in the sciences, but should not replace the traditional methods of hypothesis and scientific…

face their powers, which in return helps them by getting their bodies back and to be themselves again. One theme that this story provides is that often providing help to others like friends and people you love can improve and guide them to the greater good, and maybe even change their lives forever. The author of “Calamity” showed brilliant author’s craft in the middle of the story. In this scene, everything is going downhill as Megan goes haywire and chases our main character David around the…

Tale Not So Old As Time In the 1933 film King Kong, directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack create a fantastical horror rendition of the classic Beauty and the Beast tale. Ann Darrow, a beautiful but poor woman, gets noticed by a movie director and travels to a mysterious island where she gets captured by a giant gorilla who falls in love with her. However, Ann does not warrant these advances, and in a final chase through New York City, King Kong falls from the Empire State…

'The Giver' is a 2014 social science-fiction film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on the novel by Lois Lowry. The plot focuses on a seemingly utopian community without pain or suffering. A young boy named Jonas is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true good and bad of the 'real' world. The story is based in a futuristic society run by the Elders, that is seemingly utopian. A utopia is the perfect world, where everyone is equal and nothing is bad. But the security and order of…

Chuck Klosterman, an American essayist, writes about the issues we face in pop culture today. An article he wrote, “Robots”, is written about the societal fear of a robot takeover. He criticizes our fear that robots are physically going to takeover the world because of the massive amount of media that portrays the robots as a technological war rather than a mental conquest. Through swift changes from formal diction to colloquial statements and allusions to modern media, Klosterman is able to…

Background Sci-Fi (Science Fiction) is a type of genre that is fiction based. It is made up of several future characteristics, scientific technology that is not yet possible and with huge social and environmental changes such as time travel and life on other planets. Science Fiction is able to give you an idea of what the future can look like and what types of technology could be invented. Sci-Fi normally includes: The story is set in the future Involving aliens or other…

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The major character named Montag that is a third-generation fireman has changed by himself, and exteral facter. Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic city. In Montag’s world, firemen start fires rather than putting them out. The people in this society do not read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, and…

In Orson Scott Card’s surprising novel and film Ender’s Game, Ender Wiggin is burdened with the responsibility of saving the world from their alien enemy, the Buggers. Though every person on the Earth has their own responsibilities some aren’t as important as saving the Earth. In the novel and film Ender faces many obstacles but will soon overcome them. While watching the film there were two differences from the novel that stood out, Ender’s age and when all of the characters were introduced.…

Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut or The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. These two books are very popular dystopian literatures and the point both of these books were created is too highlight real world problems and the consequences they may have. In the story Harrison Bergeron everyone was forced to be physically and mentally equal in dehumanizing ways. Laws are enforced by Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General. Anyone who is a threat to the system is either killed or locked up without trial.…

In the novel Oryx and Crake, what is the significance of fridge magnets. Towards the end of the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Jimmy says, “You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he’d thought much about them at the time” as he comment on the fridge magnets that Crake ironically chose and enjoyed. We are presented with a world which has been devastated by a killer virus, and language, in all of its senses has been spliced just like the Crackers. Jimmy…