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Fantasy Literature and Science Fiction

has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature for Children

In nine pages this research essay discusses the importance of horror, fable, and myth genres in terms of intellectual development ...

Fantasy and Science Fiction Mythology Uses

troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creation of Terror

In six pages Tolkien's science fiction fantasy is examined in terms of how the author generated terror throughout the novel. Seve...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Hesse & Le Guin/Views on Dichotomy

finds it difficult to escape from his lifetime habit of dichotomous thinking when it comes to gender. Therefore, he tends to think...

Distress by Greg Egan and Human Values

ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...

Fantasy Literature for Children

In five pages this report considers fantasy literature for children in an agrement with Ursula K. Le Guin's definition that fantas...

Reason and Religion in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke by examining the science and religion connection of t...

'Politics of Fantasy' in Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

In five pages this tutorial analyzes Kiss of the Spider Woman in a consideration of how it represents 'politics of fantasy.'...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

Current Perspectives/Math and Science Education

NAS emphasizes developing outstanding science and math teachers in grades K-12 (Gordon, 2007). Research has also been instigated...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Television and Book Fantasy

smart enough to know that their world is not the same as the story worlds to which they are introduced at an early age. Bruno Bet...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

EVE Online/Authority in an Online Community

travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...

“The Thirteenth Floor”

Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...

Murder on Board

dirty clothes and reeking garbage make the atmosphere unbearable fairly quickly, and nobody wants to live in a toilet for the endl...

Models, Miniatures, and the Battle for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...

Conformity and Individuality in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

No, Montag, admits, because books are illegal, but her question unnerves him to the point that he tells her, "You think too many t...

Book Report on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three

the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...