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- 131: Book Review: Nemesis
- ... of age, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Asimov turned to full time writing in 1958. This accomplished writer is best known for his novels dealing with science fiction. However, his works extend to other subjects. These include humour, mystery, history, and some volumes involving the Bible and Shakespeare. He has published around 500 books for both young and adult readers. His most famous science- fiction writings are I, Robot (1950) and The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953). Asimov was dubbed a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1987 by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He died in 1992. Setting: The story takes place in two time periods. One set of events takes place in the present, while the other ...
- 132: Ray Bradbury
- ... or topics will want to consult the helpful chronolgy complied by William F. Nolan for the 1973 Doubleday & Co., Inc. education of The Martian Chronicles. As a partical matter, consideration here is limited primarily to fiction available to the general reader. Though this qualification includes the vast bulk of Bradbury's output, certain stories not included in the major collections, as well as Bradbury's nonfiction, are either not mentioned at ... is. The demands of the commercial marketplace and the need to confine a popular writer and his within an easy recognizable image have resulted in Bradbury's being jammed uncomfortably into a box labeled "Science Fiction". No definition of science fiction exists that pleases everybody, and even if it did, to apply it casually to the work of Ray Brabdbury would be inaccurate and unfair. H.G. Wells, whom many regard as a classical science ...
- 133: A Room of One’s Own: Cranial Spelunking
- ... s writing (To the Lighthouse, for example), but for all intensive purposes, A Room of One’s Own, will suffice. In A Room of One’s own, Woolf is asked to talk about Women and Fiction. Instead of actually addressing the issue, what is instead written, consists of the thoughts that occurred while thinking about the subject. At the start of the book she ponders the meaning of women and fiction as she says “I sat on the bank and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to ... Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Elliot; a reference to Miss Gaskell and one would have done“(7). She then continues to go on listing all the possible interpretations of the phrase women and fiction. Her writing comes rushing at you, inundating and surprising you. It is extremely tedious to read. So much comes at you at once, Woolf’s thoughts don’t stop to take a breath and ...
- 134: Health
- ... regretting the decision. After his expulsion he entered a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. His story MS. Found in a Bottle was considered to be the one of the world s first science fiction stories, he won both the $50 prize and acclaim for its 24-year-old author. (Internet source) He would then work at several different editorials, none of which really worked out for him. His dream ... made Edgar Allen Poe? Through his lifetime many different misfortunes and disasters would strike him. All of these would shape him and his writing to what we now associate as the father of modern diabolic fiction. (Internet source) The first of the tragedies to plague him would be the abandonment by his father. He would grow never knowing who his real father was. His father had left his family when Edgar ... at times he was slightly romantic (with a satanic sort of twist). None the less his poems, stories, and tales all fell into different varieties. He was said to be the father of all diabolic fiction and the writer of the first science fiction story. The different categories that his writings fell into were Romanticism, Gothicism, symbolism Decadence, and Surrealism. All in all what ever it was that sparked his ...
- 135: Humor in Wonderland
- ... was no exception. Many people have pondered whether their children would be able to distinguish the fictitious would of Wonderland from the reality of the real world (Avery 321). Alice in Wonderland has proven that fiction and reality can be separated and has become a renowned piece of literature not only loved by children but also by adults. The fiction incorporated in Alice in Wonderland also portrays a sense of humor as shown in no other fairy tale. Humor in Wonderland is balanced between the animation of animals, Alice's thoughts, and the fluctuating differences between the worlds of reality and fiction. The animation of animals becomes humorous from the very beginning of the story when Alice encounters a white rabbit. Alice finds that the rabbit is not ordinary "when the Rabbit actually took a watch ...
- 136: The Island of Dr. Moreau
- The Island of Dr. Moreau The Island of Dr Moreau, by H.G. Wells, is not an ordinary science fiction novel. It doesn’t deal with aliens or anything from outer space, but with biologic science that exist on this earth. The novel was about a character, Edmund Prendick, that gets involved with an island ... lying. As a result, the beast begin to believe him and order remains once again. A development of the protagonist can be clearly traced. The narrator, Edmund Prendick, is the obvious protagonist in this science fiction novel. At first, this character was stranded on the ocean and picked up by the generous Montgomery. When the captain dropped off Montgomery and his “belongings,” such as animals, Prendick was forced to go with ... original “Chapter Two,” Wells labeled them differently, like “Chapter The Second.” In conclusion, the novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, is best understood through plot, character analysis, theme, style, and setting. H.G. Wells science fiction novel is fascinating because science had many areas where there is little or no knowledge about it, especially in the nineteenth century. This novel seems so out of the ordinary back then, but almost ...
- 137: Their Eyes Are Watching God
- ... almost all of her works, including Their Eyes Are Watching God, where Zora’’s fictitious Eatonville seems to be controlled by supernatural forces. Hurston used her artistic talent to incorporate her cultural anthologies into her fiction by combining many of the traditions and cultural tinges she discovered while tracing Black culture into the fictional town of Eatonville. Hurston’’s most acclaimed work , Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been read, adored ... longs for the horizon. She finds that she must struggle to overcome the many obstacles society throws in her path. Hurston’’s frequent use of emotional metaphors is part of the power contained in her fiction. She uses nature to convey her emotions. The sun is a major image in the texts of Hurston, and the passage above illustrates her fascination with light. Ever since her mother told her to ‘‘jump ... happy child of Hurston’’s your: ‘‘I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul." This is one of many examples of Hurston’’s emphasis on emotional identification in her fiction. She also believed strongly in the elements of the earth and how they showed a symbol for each emotion. "The elements of sun and fire cleanse and renew her. The wind, another elemental image, ...
- 138: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- Biography of Arthur Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction author, has had a very interesting life. Arthur was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England. He was the oldest of four children. His two brothers were Frederick and Michael, and his sister's ... member of the Royal Air Force.Then later he became the assistant editor of Science Abstracts, a science magazine. After quitting his job as the assistant editor, he decided to become a full-time science fiction author. Arthur has never been married, and still, to this day, is a bachelor. Clarke is a very successful writer. In fact, he is considered to be one of the most successful science fiction authors ever! He has written many books, including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to Space; The Sands of Mars; Islands in the Sky; Against the Fall of Night; Childhood's End; ...
- 139: Joseph Conrad
- ... compared to his. Examples of Conrad’s literature include novels such as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and The Secret Agent. Heart of Darkness is basically based on his own experiences, but Conrad also adds fiction into this particular novel (Dintenfass 1). It has been said that Conrad’s style of writing is described as "...life as we actually live it...[is] to be blurred and messy and confusing-- and the ... of observing the way Conrad revives the dark sides of his characters (Dintenfass 7). Overall, we realize that all three novels have a primary similarity; we find that they all include a portion of both fiction and reality. Conrad’s style of techniques includes his organization of his thoughts, his use of literary forms, and significant themes. His organization of thoughts illustrate that you can discover an opinionated interest in the ... back temporarily in causing the story line to detach itself from making sense, but fortunately this doesn’t undermine his style of expression (WLC 783). Finally, irony is featured when he combines both truth and fiction. There is no telling Conrad’s experiences from the fiction in his novels to have his readers comprehend the reality from the imagination. This is the reason why readers occasionally mistaken his novels as ...
- 140: Psychology Of Television
- ... television is the cause of violence in today s youth. Many have pondered that television disturbs traditions as well as interferes with the minds of adolecened children who can not yet comprehend the truth of fiction and reality. Thus television has become a widely talked about controversy, mainly because of the fatal incidents that have been occurring during the past couple of years. Questions are being raised and people want answers ... and why it portrays the way it does. Even though they know that their shows are representative to their viewers tastes and not that of the real world. Although this information is not acknowledged as fiction or non-fiction it is still portrayed and processed information by the viewer. One must be able to realize, How this information is different from everyday life? By mocking a family, situation, or community, distortions and biases ...
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