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Satirical Sci-fi

Satire has always been a favored "genre" of mine, and for this week's satirical sci-fi I rewatched the movie "Idiocracy". This is a fabulous movie for this genre because it still is a very real, yet horrifying and comedic, take on our future world. Although, it is truly a statement of the present times and our society today, like all satire. It illustrates what we prioritize in our world today, such as commercialism, food intake, and consumerism in general. It shows the toll our planet will take, due to our current treatment of it, and the consequences there in. "Idiocracy" portrays a semi-lighthearted, slightly crude take on the future enough that people are able to digest it, but still hide from the issues its dealing with. The in class movie, "Downsizing" I felt related back to "Idiocracy" in a very distinct way in dealing with the constant issue of the state of our planet, but took this stance in a different tone. There was ver...
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The fiction of ideas

A fantastic example of a story illustrating the fiction of ideas is, "I have no mouth, and I must scream".  A central idea and theme for this week was mind experiments and just how far fetched ideas could be and still make sense within the fiction. While beginning, " I have no mouth, and I must scream", you are dropped into this world with no back story or real context to characters or setting and expected to keep up in this tumultuous world filled with pain, agony, and torture. You begin to put together this tale of a dystopian future, ran by a form of AI, or in this case, AM. I found it to be very curious, this story being written in the year 1967 and has so many common themes of today with artificial intelligence taking over the world as we know it.  This story was written after the red scare was pretty much over with, but it takes on the setting and back story, as we come to find out, of a world where the war against communistic countries waged on and eventually...
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Literary Speculation

This week's discussion on literary work v.s. genre work poses a very interesting topic. When we were first brought this subject, I didn't know what it was exactly talking about or even close to talking about. However through comparing the aspects and elements of literary works to those of genre works it has now become apparently clear. There are some stories, and texts that fall directly into the Sci-fi genre because they are about that, science fiction in its full. However there are those other texts that hold themes and perhaps elements that are found in sci-fi genre, but not considered to fall into the genre itself. The short story "The Distance of The Moon" I believe is a literary work, opposed to a sci-fi genre. This text does have distinct elements of sci-fi and fantasy as well, such as jumping to the moon, the moon being so close to earth you can reach it, and harvesting the milk of the moon. However, the main concept and plot of the story is not based on the ...
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