The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Sean Reape Comm 320 10/12/2015 Ray Harryhausen to Peter Jackson Ray Harryhausen is arguably one of the most influential and creative artists to ever lay a hand on the camera, with his master visual effects skills he carries the title of father of stop-motion model animation, and created ?Dynamation? which is an animation technique where a certain object is physically manipulated making it appear to move on it?s own. This was a technique that would change not only the…

Ray Bradbury has been considered one of America’s greatest science-fiction writer’s. His work often satires human nature and shows his reader’s the flaws found deep within the individual. Not only is Bradbury a novelist, but he is also a, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third son in the family. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a telephone lineman and technician. His…

than anyone in history. Serling took an interest in film around the age of six, acting out dialogue from magazines and films he had seen. His family recalls many occasions where he would speak whether someone responded to him or not. Testing out this theory, his family travelled two hours in a car, all silent except young Rod?s nonstop…

Even though there are several eminent horror story authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, and Arthur Machen, Stephen King is one of the most prolific and commercially successful horror authors of the past half century. Renowned author Stephen King has written numerous novels and short stories that have sold many millions of copies. He continues to produce frightening page turners. Stephen King has been influenced,influenced others,faced challenges, been inspired,writes horror stories and many other…

People claim that eyes in a picture tend to follow their every step, but perhaps one day they realize that they might really be real eyes. George Orwell’s science-fiction novel, 1984, introduces the character known as Winston who struggles with accepting the surroundings presented to him in the dystopian society of Oceania. Winston notices how the government, the Party, utilizes its resources as to watch upon the people through telescreen, drone, and even children, causing Winston to…

satisfactorily confirms and is comforted by an anti-Semitic repugnance he had always felt for black people. He once wrote down his opinion for the New England Magazine in 1835, ''performing their moderate share of the labors of life without being harassed by its cares.'' (Historical Journal of Massachusetts) In 1836 for the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge he wrote that, ''negroes should suffer more, in proportion to their numbers, than whites, by all sorts of pestilence,…

There are a plethora of things that the world perceives as true. The grass is green. There are 7 continents. There are currently 50 states that are a part of the USA. These things are all concrete facts. They are undisputed. They will not change. They cannot be debated. However, looking back on what I have learned in this class, through my writing and the texts that I have looked at, many of the things I have learned do not fall into this category. Many of the themes and conclusions I have drawn…

Nobody likes to follow the rules, but following them too blindly can detrimental. Too bad the citizens in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” can’t seem to realize this. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, an old village holds an annual ritualistic “lottery” that takes place to limit the population size by means of stoning the “lucky winner” to death. Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” is satirical dystopian short story set in a futuristic society where its…

Stage One: Your reading history and practice Besides what you had to read for school, how much did you read growing up? I did have any habits of reading. I have not done that much reading when I was growing up, even in French. As I mention before, I started learning, speaking, reading, and writing in English on the second of September 2014, when I went to South African. Even before that, reading was not something I really like to do. My reading experiences are from the past two…

Rating On a scale from 1 to 5, I give The House of Hades a rating of 4. There were many interesting parts and there were some parts that I tried not to fall asleep on. Some of the interesting parts were when Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase were in Tartarus fighting monsters, slowly dying. They are met with past enemies and make unforeseen alliances. In the Prophecy of Seven, one of the lines say, “And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death”. Their foes in the story are Bob the Titan, AKA…