Ray Bradbury’s Technological Advances in Fiction Imagine‚ a house that took care of you! No longer would you need to clean‚ cook‚ or remember agendas and plans‚ and reading on your own? Nahh‚ your “smart-house” can do that for you as well! But of course this is all fiction‚ right? I mean‚ who has ever heard of a house that can do all of the work and maintenance itself? It’s just not real. Simply impossible; well that is‚ in today’s world‚ the society of the 21st century. In Ray Bradbury’s fictional
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literary critic‚ an essayist and an environmental activist. And she is an excellent writer‚ a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature. Her genres of writing include historical fiction‚ speculative fiction‚ science fiction‚ and dystopian fiction. The theme of the poem "Variations on the Word Love" by Margaret Atwood is that there is a wide range of types of love that are expressed differently. The poem mainly composes of two parts. Firstly‚ she explores the
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The Host is a science fiction novel by Stephanie Myers. The story takes place on earth during a post apocalyptic period where parasitic aliens or “souls” are using human beings as their hosts. While many humans bodies have been inhabited by these souls‚ there are still many resisting humans who refuse to give up their body. Melanie Stryder‚ Jamie Stryder‚ and Jared Howe are part of this human resistance until Melanie is captured. A soul named Wanderer is inserted into Melanie’s body and is recruited
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The Polesotechnic League is a series of novels by Poul Anderson the American science fiction writer. The first novel in the Polesotechnic League series was the 1958 published War of the Wing-Men that also goes by the name The Man Who Counts. With the first novel of the series receiving a long of accolades and becoming an almost instant hit with fans‚ Anderson wrote several more titles in the series that culminated with the publication of Tthe Earth Book of Stormgate that he published in 1978. Similar
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Imagination vs Reality in Literature “Aren’t grown-ups supposed to read realistic fiction? What good are these wild tales‚ anyway?” (“Speculative” 200). In author Vandana Singh’s “A Speculative Manifesto”‚ she describes how important speculative fiction is in the education of students in literature. Speculative fiction is combination of several different genres of literature‚ such as mystery‚ science fiction‚ historical fiction and fantasy. Vandana Singh asks in her manifesto if education is based on
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but this is what Ray Bradbury did as a career. Even through growing up in the Great Depression with all the hardships that arose‚ he created many science fiction works that are enjoyed by young teens across the world. Bradbury’s short stories‚ “A Sound of Thunder” and “The Long Rain‚” contain topics concerning the human mind‚ technology‚ fantasy‚ and science about which Bradbury theorized during his life. Ray Bradbury was born on August 22‚ 1920 in Waukegan‚ Illinois‚ to Esther and Leonard Spaulding
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Elevator Ride to Space” Summary The possibility of science fiction becoming reality through the use of space elevators is discussed in Sheldon Kearney’s essay‚ “Going up? An Elevator Ride to Space‚” which Kearney writes about the benefits of a space elevator‚ and the conflicts that could arise out of it. Kearney opens up his explanatory synthesis essay with an explanation of what a space elevator is‚ and the physics behind making science fiction reality. He writes that a space elevator is exactly
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Matthew Choma English 101 Prof. J. Douglas 4/9/11 Breakfast of Champions: Science Fiction as Social Commentary Vonnegut’s symbolic and satirical representation of humans as robots in his novel: Breakfast of Champions is representative of the authors interpretation of world events and conflicting nature of human beings. The renowned author often hits on significant and worrisome themes such as destruction of the planet and overpopulation. His unique and unparallel style includes outrageous
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“If there’s a zeppelin‚ it’s alternate history. If there’s a Rocket Ship‚ it’s Science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses‚ it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horse in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocket ship to the mix. If a book has a rocket ship in it‚ the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is Holy Grail.” ~ Debra Doyle The book “The Afterlife” and the movie “October Sky”. The two text‚ The Afterlife and October Sky‚ have several similarities and differences
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head‚ and I still remember parts of the movie too‚ but not much. The Shadow Children was most interesting for me to read‚ though I never read the entire series. When I thought about science fiction‚ I thought about Star Wars‚ so I never dared to touch a science fiction book. But this series opened my eyes to science fiction and mysteries‚ which were the only books I bothered to read my freshman
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