Science fiction

The Martian: Hard or Soft Science Fiction? A popular interest among science lovers today is an interest in Mars, possibly because we are becoming much closer to being able to send people there. One of the most popular, and most recent, works regarding Mars is The Martian, a novel by Andy Weir that later was adapted to film by Ridley Scott. The main story is that astronaut and botanist, Mark Watney, is abandoned on Mars by his crew after being struck by flying debris in a large sandstorm. There,…

What comes to mind when people think science fiction? In reality, this depends on what literature the person has had experience with. I think you could accurately guess that the first thing a lot of people might come up with would be Hunger Games. However, some people might bring out more classic literature like War of the Worlds. You can confuse yourself more by asking someone what science fiction is. Everyone seems to have their own opinions on this subject and you might even start a…

As a film genre, Science Fiction seems boundless as it encompasses any element that is both futuristic and somewhat plausible in nature. Often sci-fi films can be subdivided based on the devises used be they aliens, time travel, or technology driven dystopias, but sci-fi films, even within the same subgenre do not always propose similar ideals. One of the popular subgenres of sci-fi is that of artificial life or more specifically, android/cyborg films. Blade Runner and Terminator 2: Judgement…

Genre: The Secret of Scenes in Science Fiction. Science fiction is a genre that is well known to raise many questions about the world we live in and how humanity might react to certain situations be it the possibility of aliens, zombies, or robots. Although, when analyzing the category of science fiction as a whole, how can one really classify something as science fiction? Throughout an analysis of the film Resident Evil (2002), in relation to two other science fiction films titled Jurassic Park…

Sci-fi or science fiction movie is a type of movie that feature a science based plot, which usually include futuristic elements such as robot, space, etc. Furthermore, science fiction sometime talks about other issues like political, social, and philosophical. According to Vivian Sobchack, an American cinema and media theorist and cultural critic said that “Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in…

many more. The style of the literature determines what genre it is. 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.…

A lot of people think science fiction writers try to predict the future in their stories. But to be honest predicting the future is very difficult. They try to combine many things together to get that image on how it will affect the characters in their stories. There to be many things that they can imagine. They can imagine good features where disease and hunger were exposed at. They can also imagine about future things like how poverty is even more widespread than it is today. But how will…

Science fiction has shaped the world in millions of diverse ways, and you didn’t even notice one. Morgan Trinca (2018). Some people believe that science fiction is merely for entertainment; others have no doubt it's a warning for what could be the future of mankind. However, it can been proven that science fiction has many serious purposes, including warnings of ‘utopian’ communities eliminating some of man kinds most important traits. Science fiction is a fictional genre based on scientific and…

Science fiction as a literary genre has come a long way from Verne's search for the center of the earth and Wells' travel through time in his time machine. Contemporary science fiction is more willing to challenge the limits of possibilities and more eager to push the boundaries of human imagination. More importantly, science fiction often acts as a precursor to scientific thought, and forebodes new research; projects such as Google Glass can be traced to similar ideas presented much earlier in…

Although science fiction might seem to the future of our human lives not all is with us and view it as a good thing. People need to start viewing science fiction as a good thing because this is what drives humans to create new and improved technology. Which means if anything we are almost in the era of futuristic technology. We always see new and improved which of course this genre science fiction has a lot to relate to our human ways. Not all in this genre is bad especially how both of these…