Science fiction

are different from our own society, but also include elements that we are familiar with. These dystopian societies will not be far from our own future if we abuse the powers that we posses. Margaret Atwood claims that she is not a science fiction writer. Science fiction suggests things that humans are not able to do. (Atwood) Both books have things that we are capable of doing through our technology and government. In Oryx and Crake, the technology they have is not far from what we have now. In…

people by his unbelievable talent for generating not solely a science fiction novel and short story, however, one that appeared plausible. The Time Machine is a good example; he used imagination…

Being a prisoner of war during World War II, Kurt Vonnegut over went through many traumatic incidents. Slaughterhouse-Five, written by Vonnegut himself, expresses these encounters through a first person stance by using the character of Billy. Many articles and reviews have been written analyzing the themes and overall success of the novel. Amongst them the perspective of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and Susanne Vees-Gulani, whom believe the book was absolutely exceptional with the perspective of a…

the death penalty, and the monster’s right to company. We focus on mass surveillance, and the monster’s right to human rights. Our adaption relied heavily on the Gothic convention of the fear of the unknown, with our unknown being what happens when science is uncontrolled, and what happens with the information gathered by watching us. Another convention used was the use of present day technology to create an unlikely scenario, in which we discuss issues that can arise from these technologies.…

Synopsis Fahrenheit 451 is about a dystopian world, which means a future where things that are good now are either destroyed or turned into something worrying. The government is worried that people will revolt if they read books because they think they don’t have the best life that they could. It’s a story about a future where books are banned because people don’t have a long enough attention span to read them. Since they don’t have any books, people aren’t creative and everyone is the same…

delivers an action packed science fiction TV series based on one man, with his time traveling spaceship, exploring the vast expanse of space and time. Imagine a universe where humans not only had the technology to explore beyond the vast expanse of space of our solar system, but also had the ability to time travel, and visit parallel universes. Imagine a spaceship with all these capabilities, but was in the appearance of… an English retro blue telephone box? This is the science fiction world of…

accepted fact that plague outbreaks, formed on earth, were first introduced by fleas and rats. The author intends to expose the inconsistencies of the appearance of Black Plague throughout history. Although the theory seems to originate from a science fiction novel, Cantor reasons that the gaps between outbreaks follow a consistent path similar to that of extraterrestrial pathogens. The author uncovers evidence revealing that the bubonic plague appeared in outbursts after…

“Idiocracy” is a film directed by Mike Judge that is a satirical science fiction film which basically predicts our nation’s cultural decline into nothing but a nation of imbeciles. Judge starts the film with the idea that intelligent people have now become an endangered species while the uneducated are copulating and reproducing at furiously rising exponential rates. The film presented a dangerous and chaotic way to view the world. The impoverished and uneducated people were portrayed as the…

storytelling techniques. Postmodern novels are often characterized by feature such as: fragmentation, presence of authorial voice within the novel that addresses the readers himself, a mixing style in the same text, non-linear plot, introduction of science-fiction elements and sometimes postmodern authors chose an absurd and ironic point of view to convey their stories…

However, competitors are coming along the way such as Apple. In 1983, during the Super Bowl XVIII aired the “1984” commercial which introduces a new product from Apple, the Macintosh. Ridley Scott was the director, at the time directed different science fiction movies such as Alien or Blade Runner but nowadays…