Essays On Science Fiction

John Wyndham was born in England, on July 10, 1903. When he was growing up, he went to a series of boarding schools because his parents were separated. He then attended an advanced co- educational school until he reached the age of eighteen. After he left school, Wyndham studied farming for awhile, then “crammed” to […]

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is a very influential movie that portrays several underlying meanings that allows the viewer to distinguish for himself. Metropolis was the first science fiction film made, which symbolized a new mark in the film industry. It was produced in Germany in 1927, directed by Fritz Lang. This film tells a story of […]

A genre is a particular type of commodity . It has characteristic features that are known to and recognised by the audiences because the same formula is reproduced many times. Genre is a French word meaning that refers to types or categories of media products. Soap operas, situation comedies, police series, quiz shows and news […]

I think it is correct in saying that genre texts promote a set of values directly linked and related to the contexts they were produced in but I don’t think they can just be boxed off as being related to that specific context. Some values related to context have continued throughout genre. Genre is an […]

Born in August 9, 1927 Daniel Keyes began his life in Brooklyn New York. At only seventeen he joined the Marine Service, serving as ships purser. Keyes started his career as an associate fiction editor, the left editing to ender the fashion photography business. (H. Keyes, Daniel Keyes Bio). I think his job a fiction […]

Independence Day and action Sci-Fi directed by Roland Emmerich was released in 1996 and starred will smith, Jeff Goldblum and bill Pullman. The plot of the film is fairly simple, earth is under threat from alien invasion and all we can do is fight back, the basic story is the same as many other sci-fi […]

In this essay, I will be comparing a pre-20th Century novel, “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, and a 20th Century novel, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. Both novels fit into the Science Fiction genre and both look at the effects man’s ignorance and ignorant intervention could have on the future. Science Fiction […]

HG Wells was well known for writing such books as War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. They were famous and unique because of his innovating idea of science fiction therefore being remembered as ‘the farther of British Science Fiction’. However, he actually wrote in a […]

”The Time Machine” by Herbert George Wells was published in 1895. At that time in Britain, the industrial revolution was taking place. The industrial revolution saw substantial change in Victorian Britain. The population was increasing, industry and travel had changed due to the invention of steam trains, electricity, and spinning jenny’s. More people left the […]

The brilliance behind the science fiction action story,’ The War of the Worlds’ is the articulate H. G. Wells whose unique style of writing has significantly influenced both modern and 1950’s societies, which is justified by the fact that several successful attempts to remake the classic story into an action movie has proved very flourishing […]

One of the key issues present in science fiction culture is that of validation of your being, your identity. Indeed this issue is presented in varying levels through many films. But it is within science fiction that intricate systems of power and control are portrayed as if it were an ‘Orwellian’ fantasy. The notion that […]

The movie ‘The Matrix’ is a science fiction movie. The genre ‘science fiction’ is a paradox. The word ‘science’ comes from the Latin meaning ‘to know’. So this means that it is factual, or true. The word ‘fiction’ means ‘untrue’ so the two words together contradict themselves. Fiction pushes the boundaries of science.Science Fiction movies […]

I will be looking closely at matrix a 1999 science fiction film that illustrates the future, and refers to the present world that we live in as the ‘matrix’, based on an imitation of reality created by machines and artificial intelligent. The brief story outline of the film is that Morepheus is a human freed […]

Over time, the science fiction film genre has developed immensely in numerous ways. These developments are easily distinguishable between the modern films of today and some of the most primitive movies. If one was to examine an older movie opposite a recent one, there is a dramatic contrast between the two films, which some may […]

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a few miles from London, the son of a house-maid and gardener. Wells died in 1946, a wealthy and famous author, having seen science fiction become a recognized literary form and having seen the world realize some of science fiction’s fondest dreams and worst fears. […]

If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley — but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass, And some highway […]

Science fiction’s genre characteristics allow it to explore the perceived dangers of the advancements in science and technology. This is evident in the satirical text “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick, and finally I Robot, directed by Alex Proyas. These different texts share the same genre of […]

In the sound of thunder Ray Bradbury uses science fiction to convey a fable-like story of man and its exploitation of technology. Likewise H. G. Wells uses science fiction to portray a moral story of mans own ignorance and failure to understand the power of a gift. Though both stories have a clear moral they […]

This assessment has asked me to compare and contrast the stories of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this assignment the differences in language and characters will be compared and contrasted. The genre of the short story will be contrasted with the short novel. The different […]

In order to study genre of any kind, it is important to be able to define exactly what genre is. There are various explanations for the meaning of genre. Brainy Media (2003) defines genre as: “Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature. ” Interapple Inc (2003) defines genre as: “Kind, sort, form, variety – […]

The Oxford Concise English dictionary defines science fiction as ‘a fanciful fiction based on postulated scientific discoveries or environmental changes. ‘ (1976) Joanna Russ explains: ‘Science fiction is not fantasy, for the standards of plausibility of fantasy derive not from science but from the observation of life as it is. ‘ (Russ 1995:4). Science fiction […]

The story “The Wife’s Story” is about the tale of the werewolf but vice versa, instead of seeing everything from the human’s point of view it shows it in the werewolf’s perspective. The author of this is Ursula K. Le Guin and she did a fantastic job writing this. Its odd how she reversed the […]