Essays on Science Fiction

H. G. Wells is the True “Father of Science Fiction” At the very end of the Victorian Era, there emerged a man of literature the likes of which the world had never before seen. Some know him best as an English novelist, though most of …

“It’s often said that Science Fiction is the literature of change. ” (Treitel). When a society is going through a period in which they develop many new technologies, science fiction stories often emerge. The feelings and fears of that society are expressed in science fiction. …

One of the popular works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez which used the principle of Magical Realism was the short story entitled A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. In magical realism, the merging of myth and reality can be seen. (more…)

These two articles are similar in that they are both writing pieces by authors writing in first person about their books or writings. Amy Tan and Isaac Asimov are both writing about something specific about their writings. Amy Tan talks about how her experiences with …

What is a creativity continuum? Is it something from a science fiction? No, or not that I know of, but science fiction does feature on a continuum of creativity, along with other types of fiction, literature and texts from all genres. The focus of this …

Characterization in Science Fiction Kirill Kachinsky 03/30/2010 Introduction By analyzing Isaac Asimov’s, “The Caves of Steel” as a work of the Science Fiction genre and its comparison to similar works in the genre as well as supporting texts, it will be clear to see how …

Science fiction is a genre that is based on “imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes” that can challenge and disrupt traditional perspectives of morality and behaviour. Each science fiction text explores but one of the numerous possibilities of the …

The date was August 1, 1941. World War II had been raging for two years. France had fallen, the Battle of Britain had been fought, and the Soviet Union had just been invaded by Nazi Germany. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was four months in …

One of the main aspects of science fiction that sets it apart of almost all other genres is its ability to influence the direction of humankind. By stimulating a reader’s thoughts of the possibility of different futures, not only does science fiction serve as a …

Introduction This is a speech about science fiction. Today I will be talking about two science fiction texts, Avatar and Transformers. I will also be talking about the science fiction genre and what it is. Science Fiction Science fiction is made up of real life …

All modes of inquiry correlate with each other due to their tendency to coalesce in their emphasis on questions, which raise issues on autonomy, justice, and politics. The differences of literary theories, for example, merely spring from their construal of the relationship between the exercise …

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis is a Science fiction novel, sometimes considered a fantasy, about the strange ventures of Dr. Ransom; a philologist. The book chronicles his abduction by a megalomaniacal physicist, Weston, and his accomplice, Devine, by means of a …

What do you think about parent’s opinion about science fiction books?? My dear reader I will be delighted to discuss this topic with you… do you think that parents would accept placing their children’s minds in an imaginary world for too long that it may …

(for now)AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR This book while self-contained, is a continuation of The Foundation Trilogy, which is made up of three books: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. In addition, there are other books I have written which, while not dealing with the …

The Little Albert was an experiment performed by Watson and Rayner based on a phobia. The hypothesis to this experiment was tested to see would the pairing of a neutral stimulus evoke a response to possibly generate irrational fears in a person. In this case, …