Science fiction

Pizza, Soda, and Science Fiction Contemplation Being a nerd is the best. I mean, sure you're not going to be the coolest person in school and may get picked on but so what. High school students are like wild animals. They want to have the biggest, most baddest pack, or group of people, around them. So yes, the students that are alone going to have a difficult time getting through high school, and usually the ones left out have some sort of nerdy or "wired" tendency. Real life is a lot more…

Director Ridley Scott's science fiction film 'The Martian' slammed the box office over the weekend with a healthy $55 million. The film nearly surpassed the 2013 science fiction thriller film directed and produced by Alfonso Cuarón, 'Gravity.' As the Gravity film has the highest-grossing October debut in history. The reviews that expressed great pleasure over the film strengthened Ridley Scott's released of The Martian, as the critics also called the movie among the director's best and heaped…

The Haunted Science Lab was more than just a nickname. That's what Nigel and Cory learned when they went on their adventure. It started the day earlier. One cool, yet warm, Saturday in June, but Nigel wasn’t interested in playing baseball or running around. He was only interested in saving his hide. Nigel, a short, skinny 14-year-old, begged of the bully, “Please no, Please no! Please, I beg you, don’t make me go in there! Children go missing in there! There’s been three this week!” He…

Self-Driving Cars Self-driving cars are a type of technological advance that is commonly seen in science fiction movies. This fantasy will become reality as car companies plan to sell a “Driverless Car” in three to four years. However, like most fantasies, introducing these cars into reality will likely result in a variety of problems related to safety and legal issues. Due to these issues, more preparation is needed to safely release the driverless car into public. Those who support…

Change is a constant in the universe and in the innumerable worlds of science fiction. In these worlds, Science Fiction is used to predict the outcome of the most unimaginable changes in ourselves and our worlds. Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall, for example, predicts what would happen if night only came once every several thousand years. Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild speaks of a future where descendants of human colonists become the hosts of a parasitic race, and are cared for in return. The Witches of…

Advanced Technologies of Human: Drones Robotics are no longer a science fiction. They became a reality and there has been controversy on legality. Drones are made for good purposes and to develop the mankind. There are some people arguing that drones are invading privacy of people, but there are much more pros for them. Drone has very recently suddenly accustomed for daily use, so there are no official laws for it, but its original purpose is military use. Even though, drone has more advantages…

What are distinguishing factors between science fiction and horror they seem so different, yet share so many similarities. Science fiction obeys the natural laws of the universe, but horror creates its own set of supernatural laws. The horror genre creates terror while the Sci-Fi genre creates a sense of wonder. But both genres are so much alike and are separated by their own periods of time. The film industry uses these periods of time to create different classics for each genre. There is a…

thought, or the strange sounds heard in the middle of the night when you’re the only one in the house. Often Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” is referred to as horror, and also as science fiction. It definitely has attributes of a “horror” story; fear, surprise, suspense, and mystery. This novel also has characteristics of a science fiction story; meaning it tells of a fantastical event that has never been achieved, such as, sowing together various parts of humans and making…

Science fiction is a genre that has persisted for perhaps longer than what one might think. When classifying the genre, there are elements of technology and they are typically set in the future. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy implements such elements, but takes the issues of life, the universe, and everything and puts a funnier spin to them. This allows the author to take serious issues in society and point out the ridiculousness of situations. Absurdity is perhaps the main theme of the…

How successful is Wells’ recipe? Discuss with examples of science fiction that both follow and break with this advice. The Wellsian rule states that science fiction should only contain one surprising element in order to 'domesticate the impossible hypothesis '. It would therefore be easy to assume that because some successful forms of science fiction do not adhere to 'Wellsian rule ' then Wells ' theory must be wrong. This essay will show that rather than Wells being ‘wrong’, he was…