YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :New Ideas in Contemporary Science Fiction
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movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...
possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...
on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...
ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...
In nine pages this research essay discusses the importance of horror, fable, and myth genres in terms of intellectual development ...
This paper explores the idea of feminist characters and plots in the genre of science fiction. This eleven page paper has seven s...
in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...
In 5 pages this paper analyzes the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke by examining the science and religion connection of t...
The column for "L" what the students have learned is left blank and filled in as the week progresses. Lesson 2 involves begins w...
leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...
While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...
in the US in 2005 there was a record year, a total of 409,532 patent applications were filed and 165,485 patents were issued, this...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
are being made in the functions of different parts of the brain, for instance, which give us much greater insight into areas like ...
America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...
Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...
sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...
In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....
writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...
No, Montag, admits, because books are illegal, but her question unnerves him to the point that he tells her, "You think too many t...
Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...
the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...
characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...
in mankinds history, the machine will far exceed that most refined and sophisticated of all machines: the human brain? The movie ...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...
in the form of mere "intelligence." Their bodies were physically dead, but they were supposedly alive in cyberspace. This brings u...