sub-genres of science fiction literature Introduction Science Fiction is a literary genre that deals with imaginative writing and incorporates elements that originate from science or scientific rudiments. It belongs to the category of speculative fiction and usually explores the impact of science and technology on the society. Science fiction has been a major literary genre consisting of various sub-genres and themes within it. A complete and inclusive definition of science fiction is difficult.
Literature is the mirror of world that has no end, but it is the reflection of human life. Literature is the broadest sense of writing. It is the writing of art form with intellectual value. Literature represents a language of a people, culture and tradition. Literature is more important than a historical or a cultural artifact. Literature introduces people to new worlds of experience. Literature is the term derived from Latin word, “literature/litterautra”, which means ‘writing formed with
The movie is undoubtedly shaped with best CGI disasters and visual simulation technologies that give a chance to people to mix fact and fiction imaginatively. After coming of the digital, science fiction films are most benefitted since earlier visualization of destroying the entire city only exist in imagination but now with the developments in the film making techniques have made it possible for the spectacles accompanying
The Sentinel: is there life out there? Written only a few years after the nuclear bombs released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki finished World War II, Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Sentinel” comprises several themes that would become common in Cold War science fiction. Reflecting a collective fear that civilization might totally end itself through atomic conflict, numerous writers regarded the arrival of an atomic age as being a general right of passage for any civilization. While harnessing atomic reactions
This essay will examine how gothic fiction is very deeply embedded in the culture and time period in which it was produced. This will be studied through looking at Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto. With gothic fiction being produced during the age of enlightenment, the novels reflect a culture period of intellectualism that prised scientific enquiry and also questions morals and religion. Thus the period departed from the previous social system which
Directed by Fritz Lang in 1927, Metropolis is a futuristic science fiction film, Hutchinson, 2017 stated how the piece of cinema “is recognised as one of the landmarks of science-fiction”. Throughout this film it is shown how a division in social class can result in a ‘war-like’ environment, foreshadowing the devastation yet to be left by the Second World War. Holding timeless characteristics, it is easy to identify issues in this film that are still relevant in today’s society. Along with the social
Slotkin a ‘mythic space’, it becomes clear that the West of the popular imagination to a large extent is a result of Westerns and the images and themes presented to the American public through this medium. It is in that sense hard to underestimate the importance of Westerns and how they played an important role in creating an American identity as Corey Creekmur notes, “The western thus not only glowingly recalls a key period in American history, but in effect summarizes America as a whole and being American
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and Ridley Scott’s The Martian. This isn’t a typical alien invasion film. Director Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” is a film that centers around language how it influences how we think and live our lives. This film is a science fiction masterpiece that we leave you speechless. The film is set in present day and follows linguist Dr. Louise Banks who is brought in when twelve unidentified spacecrafts touchdown around the world. With the help of the military, a scientist named
algorithm. A similar thought deals with the removal of a human brain and placing it in a robotic vessel. These ideas spawn further speculation on the possibility of immortality and the value of being a human. Although these thoughts sound science fiction in nature, famed scientists and entrepreneurs like Elon Musk have expressed great interest in these endeavors. Many of these similar proposals of currently unobtainable scientific feats closely align with the ideas of the philosophy school of
In the world of science in order to make advancements we must drift away from what is deemed as sane. We dare to do what has never been done, see all there is to be seen, and know all there is to be known. Great sacrifices are made in the name of science but, can we ever go too far. Sergio Canavero, a Italian neurosurgeon, believes that he is on course to making a huge leap in the medical field; he wants to perform the first human head transplant. Canavero plans to take the head of one decapitated