Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, And The Bicentennial Man
Fiction novels and short stories are some of the most interesting and exciting texts there could be. Since fiction does not necessary has to be realistic at all, the limit an author has for writing a story is as far as his/her creativity can take him/her. Therefore, science fiction has a big variation of stories that range from the unthinkable to the impossible and that is what allows authors to create great pieces of work. In the novels Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, The Bicentennial Man, by Isaac Asimov and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, readers can clearly see straight away that all of these novels are fiction just by simply reading the beginning of them. These three novels share common aspects of fiction while
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In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy we have Arthur who is an Earthman and develops a friendship with aliens. On the other hand, in The Martian Chronicles humans meet with the people from Mars but the relationship they developed was not quite friendly as the Martians killed the explorers that landed on Mars. The relationship between aliens and humans differ in both of the stories but they do have something in common which is the destruction of their civilization. In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Vogons destroyed Earth which led to the destruction of humanity as well and in The Martian Chronicles the opposite happened when all the Martians were kill by the chicken pox infection that humans had brought. Although these stories have a lot in common they are also very different because they do not share the same plot or themes. Readers can see how the themes differ from each of the novels like in The Martian Chronicles, one of the themes is that “Whatever else it is, to exist as a person is to experience and to act" (Mucher). As for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the themes is that everything happens randomly. A clear example can be like when Zaphod found Magrathea and Ford “got a very strong impression that Zaphod hadn’t the faintest idea why he was there at all” (Adams 121). From the Bicentennial Man novel one of the themes presented in the story is “the acceptance of human limitations, including the finality of death”
In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy we have Arthur who is an Earthman and develops a friendship with aliens. On the other hand, in The Martian Chronicles humans meet with the people from Mars but the relationship they developed was not quite friendly as the Martians killed the explorers that landed on Mars. The relationship between aliens and humans differ in both of the stories but they do have something in common which is the destruction of their civilization. In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Vogons destroyed Earth which led to the destruction of humanity as well and in The Martian Chronicles the opposite happened when all the Martians were kill by the chicken pox infection that humans had brought. Although these stories have a lot in common they are also very different because they do not share the same plot or themes. Readers can see how the themes differ from each of the novels like in The Martian Chronicles, one of the themes is that “Whatever else it is, to exist as a person is to experience and to act" (Mucher). As for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the themes is that everything happens randomly. A clear example can be like when Zaphod found Magrathea and Ford “got a very strong impression that Zaphod hadn’t the faintest idea why he was there at all” (Adams 121). From the Bicentennial Man novel one of the themes presented in the story is “the acceptance of human limitations, including the finality of death”