Sci Fi

Origins

Trace the development of the sci-fi genre. Explain where the genre came from. What did it grow from? Consider the role of other genres which had a direct or indirect influence on the development of sci-fi? Examples to consider include: westerns, horror, the heroes’ journey, other? (100words)

 Sci-fi originates from the late middle ages when people started to understand the world around them and not just to speculate or to create gods to give meaning to things. Sci-Fi grew from the scientific revolutions of people like Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton with Astronomy physics and Mathematics which allowed the people a place to think and to have fun with science. All of the action books had an indirect influence on sci-fi because those action adventure hero's travelled to new places and discovered new things all the while there being action while the only main difference is that sci-fi is out of this world (literally) most of the time or in undiscovered places on the earth that people don't know existed (even though they don't)  while action adventure and heroes' journeys mainly stay on earth in places that are already discovered. (143 Words)

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    Categories (500 words)

Science fiction can be broken up into a number of sub-categories. Identify and explain the various sub-categories and the features which make each distinguishable. Give examples of texts you are familiar with which may represent these sub-categories.

The main genres of Sci-fi are listed below i will go into more detail at each one;
Themes related to science, technology, space and the future, as well as characteristic plots or settings include:

• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction Mainly focusses on what could have happened if the cold war had gone nuclear and the earth had been completely wiped out but humans survived and these books are mainly on the stories of thoes humans can also mean the ability of man to survive in a post zombie age. But there is a difference between Apocolyptic and post-apocolyptic, Apoclyptic is when they are trying to live with the apocolypse while Post apocolypse Post apocolypse is how they live after the apocolypse
• Biopunk mainly uses elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, Japanese anime, and post-modernist prose to describe the nihilistic, underground side of the biotech society.
• Dying Earth science fiction is mainly about if earth was a dying planet and how Humans have to excape earth some how before it died trajically, like if there was a supernova too close for humans to survive or a black hole are the main dying earth death abilities
• Military science fiction is where it is about using space travel to fly around the world but it is about colonisation and war like a Galactic war or Universe wars. E.G. Lensman series and the Foundation series
• Steampunk is usually about the time when they just invented steam and there are all these crazy contraptions running off steam like steam Space ships and steam armour or steam robots
• Time travel is about time travel through the universe like doctor who but is verry broard and could mean any thing from sight seeing to battling galactic wars. E.g. Doctor who
• Space colonization is mainly about some race colonising the stars and their encounters in thoes stars which hampers their colonisation or about the colonies.
• Space opera is the Sci-fi version of love novells and romance novels
• Spy-fi Is like James bond except inter plannetary and cam range from Hitman kind of things to james bond
• Superheroes self explatnitary really but like Superman Aqua man, wonder woman and all nof thoes

           Conventions (200 words)

Explain in detail the conventions of the science fiction genre. The conventions should also include those frequently borrowed from other genres ie the heroic journey, horror, etc

 

Science fiction usually follows a single characture or groups of people in their quest and their journey to the stars. It is mainly just fantasy, if your mind allows it and it has some thing to do with technology it can be considered Science Fiction. The difference between science fiction and Fantasy conventions is that Fantasy uses Spells, Witchcraft, Alchemy, Sorcery e.t.c while Science Fiction is Technology based. The technological base of Sci fi is the reason that it is different to other genres because most genres used past or present while Sci fi looks into the future. The writters and producer, creationists of Sci fi use their imagination 90% is made up hardly any is researched so you can litterally let your mind drift in thoughts and ideas no matter how impossible they may be.