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Science Fiction Essays and Term Papers
Brave New World 4BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to withstand the intervening 65 years, primarily because of its depiction of a tightly controlled, rigidly stratified homogenous society. Issues of social control are as ...
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Brave New World SummaryThe novel begins by plunging you into a world you can't quite recognize: it's familiar but there's something wrong, or at least different from what you're used to. For example, it starts like a movie, with a long shot of a building- but a "squat" building "only" thirty-four stories high. The ...
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William Gibson's Neuromancer: CyberspaceAs described by William Gibson in his science fiction novel Neuromancer,
cyberspace was a "Consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical
space but actuallly was a computer-generated construct representing abstract
data." Years later, mankind has realized that Gibson's vision is ...
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Brave New WorldAs man has progressed through the ages, there has been essentially one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's , we come ...
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Fahrenheit 451 - SymbolismRay Bradbury, perhaps one of the best-known science fiction, wrote the amazing novel Fahrenheit 451. The novel is about Guy Montag, a ‘fireman’ who produces fires instead of eliminating them in order to burn books (Watt 2). One night while he is walking home from work he meets a young girl who ...
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Dark CityI did my book report on by Frank Lauria. The main characters in the book were John Murdoch, Mr. Hand, and Mr. Book. Since Murdoch woke up in the icy bathtub in a strange room, he has been suspicious of everything. He is wanted for a series of brutal murders which he can’t remember ...
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AthraxThe germ warfare agent anthrax is a bacterium that, if inhaled, can kill a person in a matter of days. It sounds like science fiction, like something a mad scientist developed in a lab in hopes of taking over the world. In reality is an ancient disease of live stock and humans known since Biblical ...
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Harry Elmer BarnesIn 1952, wrote a timely article, "How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity" as the final chapter of the classic revisionist anthology, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. Barnes analyzed George Orwell's classic novel as a work of prophecy and sounded the ...
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Symbolism In Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury, perhaps one of the best-known science fiction, wrote the amazing novel Fahrenheit 451. The novel is about Guy Montag, a ‘fireman’ who produces fires instead of eliminating them in order to burn books (Watt 2). One night while he is walking home from work he meets a young ...
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Flowers For Algernon: Supplementary Book ReviewThe book, "Flowers for Algernon", was an exciting science fiction novel
written by . The main characters of the story are the
central character, Charlie, who is a mentally retarded individual involved
in a remarkable experiment which increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacher at
the ...
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Brave New Worldwas published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to have kept nearly all of it’s meaning for the past 67 years, mostly because of its story of a tightly controlled, homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant today as in ...
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Interpretation 2Humans are set apart from all other animals for one reason. We have the power of imagination and thus power to interpret what we read. Therefore, we can argue that the written word is the most meaningful of all types of communication. It is valid to say that if ten people read a book and were ...
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The Riddle Of St. LeonardsThis book is fictional, yet based on fact. It is an entertaining mystery by Candace
Robb. When Candace Robb was a child she loved books. She promised herself
that she would read all the books on the shelves of a library. She never did it, but
still read lots of books throughout her life. Her ...
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Review For A Canticle For LeibWalter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz treats religion very differently than does most science fiction. Miller's Brother Francis is charged with discovering the meaning of faith and God in the wake of total nuclear destruction. The particular religion extent in Miller's future is the ...
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New TerrorThe world has entered a new venue of warfare. War and the formalities of fighting have not seen this kind of drastic mutation since the British Redcoats were forced to change their tactics of line assault. It is the age of terrorism, and as it stands now, terrorism is the voice, both domestically ...
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The Lost World: SummaryThe Lost World by Michael Crichton is a great science fiction novel
about a group of scientists of different fields that go on an expedition to an
island to bring back a rich and stubborn scientist from a test expedition that
he cared about more than his life.
The "lost world" is an island off ...
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Bill GatesWilliam H. Gates III and His Giant , cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, holds 30.7 percent of its stock making him one of the richest people in the United States. He was the marketing and sales strategist behind many of Microsoft's software deals. Their software became the industry standard ...
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Flowers For Algernon - ReviewThe book, "Flowers for Algernon", was an exciting science fiction novel written by . The main characters of the story are the central character, Charlie, who is a mentally retarded individual involved in a remarkable experiment which increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacher at the special education ...
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AliensMaternal desire is the main issue in the film ; for the heroine, it is loss and the subsequent regaining of the object of maternal desire that is significant. The considerable length of time spent in stasis, loss of job and primarily the loss of her daughter contribute toRipley's physical and ...
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