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    "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury. The story is about a high-technology smart house in a post-human world. Due to a nuclear war‚ the inhabitants of the home have perished; only their silhouettes are left‚ etched into the burned outer walls. The intelligent house‚ unaware of their deaths‚ continues to serve the absent people. Throughout the story‚ which spans a day‚ the house makes breakfast‚ disposes of it uneaten‚ and continues with other domestic

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    A Sound of Thunder

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    A Sound of Thunder is a short story written by Ray Bradbury which belongs to the genre of science fiction. Set in a near future where time travel is possible‚ this is the story of a travel agency‚ Time Safari Inc.‚ that arranges hunting trips back in time to hunt dinosaurs. In this case‚ a nervous hunter‚ Eckels‚ steps off the trail‚ and steps on a butterfly. The historical repercussions of the death of a single butterfly‚ compounded by millions of years of effects‚ leaves the hunters to return to

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    Ray Bradbury- “ There Will Come Soft Rains” ---Science Fiction Literature Focusing on: Themes of the story: End of the world; Apocalyptic events. Despair and Destruction of mankind and his creations. Also‚ Natures way of always taking its course‚ no matter what the circumstance. Bradbury seems to be focusing on revering man’s great accomplishments‚ but expressing sadness over our capability to destroy ourselves. It showed our vast works outliving us‚ but at the

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    Opportunity Rover Research Paper Review of Science Fiction Paper My science fiction paper will chronicle the Mars rover Opportunity’s time on the planet Mars from a first-person viewpoint. Opportunity will describe the destitute land of an empty planet and crippling loneliness as its twin‚ Spirit‚ gets stuck and ceases communication in 2010 [1]. Finally‚ Opportunity will reflect on the hope it has for its wellbeing as the Curiosity rover lands on Mars in 2012 [2]‚ only to realize that its mission

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    SYRACUSE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LAW REPORTER VOLUME 22 SPRING 2010 ARTICLE 1‚ PAGE 1 “I‚ Robot – I‚ Criminal”—When Science Fiction Becomes Reality: Legal Liability of AI Robots committing Criminal Offenses Gabriel Hallevy* I. INTRODUCTION Can society impose criminal liability upon robots? The technological world has changed rapidly. Simple human activities are being replaced by robots. As long as humanity used robots as mere tools‚ there was no real difference between robots and screwdrivers

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    Cat's Cradle Summary

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    In Cat’s Cradle‚ the author Kurt Vonnegut talks about religion. The main religion written about was Bokononism. Bokononism is established by the government of San Lorenzo to make the people forget about their underprivileged quality of lives. Vonnegut’s novel sees ordinary people become deified and manipulated to become spokespeople for some greater human force. Vonnegut expresses his distrust of technology‚ opposition to religion and fear of a rapidly evolving society. The theme in Vonnegut’s novel

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    Could that world become our future? Sometimes in life‚ things cross your mind that really makes you wonder. This science-fiction novel‚ Brave New World‚ is definitely a book to make you ponder. The author‚ Aldous Huxley‚ presented an idea of nearly 600 years into the future in which the society lived peculiarly. He displayed a concept throughout the novel where the characters would develop a drug rage‚ known as Soma‚ every time they had a feeling of melancholy. Also‚ in this world‚ there was no

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    Science fiction shows the transformation into the Posthuman as the horrific harbinger of a long twilight and decline of the human species….. and expresses technophobic fears of losing our human identity and lives to machines” (Dinella). In an interview on BBC

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    To what extent do you agree? The establishing motives of most dystopian civilisations is to improve the progress of the race‚ however these objectives are able to unintentionally develop into undesirable environments. Through the Dystopic‚ Science Fiction novel‚ “The Knife of Never Letting Go” the author‚ Patrick Ness‚ intends to convey that although‚ the settlement of Prentisstown has immoral ethics‚ at the time of creation‚ the town had justified and admirable intentions. Similarly‚ the infection

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    the way I like it. Star Wars is better than Star Trek. Star Wars has a whole army of clones. I feel like Start Trek has limited cast. Star trek has less weaponry. Star Trek also has less vehicle types. I like a lot of weapons and vehicles in science fiction movies and television. Star Wars gives us more action packed scenes and a more diverse selection of vehicles and weaponry and characters. I also think Star Trek is a bit more realistic and Star Wars is true fantasy. Like I said before‚ that’s

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