Science Fiction Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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An Analysis of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game (708 words, 3 pages)

Orson Scottt Card's Ender's GameThe book starts off with Ender getting his monitor off. A monitor issomething that they but on the back of these peoples necks to see if they are agood candidate to be a general to fight the buggers. The buggers are aliens.Well, since he is not ... Read More

An Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (720 words, 3 pages)

Fahrenheit 451 A World With No BooksRay Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was an interesting Science fictionthriller that provided an odd view on the censorship of books. Not just somebooks, but all books. An entire distorted culture and civilization where allbooks are prohibited. And the penalty for being caught with books is ... Read More

A Review of the Science Fiction Story Book “Dune” (422 words, 2 pages)

DuneThe book Dune has a science-fiction story line that associates two majorthemes frequently in the book. The title and the setting of the book are usedto establish the bleakness and isolation of the planet Arrakis. The plot andresolution bring together the multiple factions including the emperor and thetwo major houses ... Read More

A Review of the Story “Griffin’s Egg” (426 words, 2 pages)

Griffin's Egg GuntherGriffin's Egg is a story about Gunther, a man who lives on the moon. Andhis adventures,as he gets into all kinds of situatutions. He, along with manyothers, have inhabited the moon because Earth is engauged in a fullthermonuclier war. The dangers of the moon however, also come along. ... Read More

This Perfect Day by Ira Levin Praised by Critics (1837 words, 10 pages)

This Perfect Day is probably Ira Levin's greatest work of hiscareer. Levin's work, despite being written in 1970, is veryplausible having realistic technology, such as scanners andcomputers which watch over the entire family, the entirepopulation of the world. This novel could be used to showthe dangers of a Utopian society ... Read More

A Comprehensive Analysis of Raptor Red by Robert Bakker (996 words, 7 pages)

1. The novel I read was "Raptor Red" by Robert T. Bakker. Published by Simon Schuster, in 1995. Rapotor Red is a female raptor struggling to survive in a kill or be killed world on her own after losing her mate. 2. The setting changes all throughout the book as ... Read More

An Overview of the Novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1013 words, 3 pages)

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton KevinNumber of pages 399 Block BPlot SummaryIntroductionThe Story takes place on an Island off the Coast of Costa Rica. Where A very wealthy man, John Hammond, Has set up A Genetically engineered Dinosaur preserve. Before he opens this living attraction to the public(only the people ... Read More

A Review of Michael Crishton’s Jurassic Park (1102 words, 7 pages)

Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler were among many people paleontologists thatwere funded by a wealthy man by the name of John Hammond. The two of themwere visited by a man named Morris who was very interested in Hammond.Apparently he had leased an island of the west ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character Guy Montag in the Novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1140 words, 2 pages)

"Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the joy of the midnight runs, nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flamesnever questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were ... Read More

An Overview of the Society in the Novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (575 words, 1 pages)

In the book Fahrenheit 451 the theme is a societyworld that revolves around being basically brain washed or programmed because of the lack of people not thinking for themselves concerning the loss of knowledge, and imagination from books that don't exist to them. In such stories as the Kurt Vonnegut's ... Read More

An Analysis of the Book Congo (1119 words, 6 pages)

The book Congo is about a group of people who go to the African Congo to return a gorilla to her homeland and to find type IIb blue diamonds. On their journey they discover the lost city of Zinj and a new species of killer gorillas, which they must overcome ... Read More

A Summary and Review of the Book Congo by Michael Crichton (1125 words, 6 pages)

The book Congo is about a group of people who go to theAfrican Congo to return a gorilla to her homeland and to findtype IIb blue diamonds. On their journey they discover thelost city of Zinj and a new species of killer gorillas, whichthey must overcome to survive. The story ... Read More

A Review of Jules Verne’s Book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (436 words, 2 pages)

Jules Verne was born in France in 1828 and always had a love for the sea. He once tried to be a sea captain on a boat but things did not work out. Jules Verne has written many very famous books such as Journey To the Center of the Earth, ... Read More

Science Fiction Writers That Offered Insights of the Future Worlds (1509 words, 7 pages)

For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One such author, Ray Bradbury, utilized this concept ... Read More

An Analysis of the Science Fiction Story The Star (758 words, 1 pages)

This science fiction story called The Star has many religious and spiritual overtones which makes the theme of the story There always has to be one to save all more obvious. From the first to the last sentence the theme was built throughout to be a parallel experience of what ... Read More

A Book Summary of Gloria Miklowitz’s “After the Bomb” (737 words, 4 pages)

- Book Summary After the Bomb written by Gloria Miklowitz is a thrilling novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb which supposedly was sent from Russia by accident. L.A. and surrounding cities are all altered by the disastrous happening. Philip Singer a teenager is in a position ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Final Chapter in a Clockwork Orange (608 words, 1 pages)

A Clockwork Orange To leave out the final chapter of A Clockwork Orange is to change the entire meaning of the novel as Burgess says in the introduction, his story is transformed into a fable. Without the last chapter the reader is left with a dark and pessimistic theme, that ... Read More

An Analysis of Human Instinct in War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1213 words, 2 pages)

As the Martians fire their deadly heat rays, destroying towns and cities will anyone survive against the overwhelming odds? What were the Martians doing here? This could not have been a friendly visit, so what were their intentions? In H.G. Wells War of the Worlds the humans instinct to survive ... Read More

A Character Analysis of “The Time Machine” (1126 words, 2 pages)

Let me start off this essay by saying that I believe H.G.(Herbert George) Wells is one of the most intelligent writers of his time a true futurist. Obviously, I read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and I would like to say that it was extremely well written and sounds ... Read More

An Analysis of the Future as Depicted in The Martial Chronicals by Ray Bradbury (1255 words, 2 pages)

In The Martial Chronicals, Ray Bradbury provides a glimpse into the future that not only looks at people from a technological standpoint, but from a human one as well. His well crafted, almost poetic stories are science fiction in setting only. They put much more emphasis on the apathy and ... Read More

A Comprehensive Book Analysis of Titan A. E. By Steve and Dal Perry (715 words, 1 pages)

Mathew HallTitan A.EBy Steve Perry Dal Perry Titan A.E was the best book i have ever read by two authors, the detail was very good and was one of the only books that I can get a very good picture in my head. Titan A.E was a combination of action ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Parkes (448 words, 1 pages)

This essay will discuss the novel The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham and an opinion on the novel. The novel begins as Bill wakes up, Bill knows something isn't right. Things are too quiet. The hectic bustling commuter noises of a normal Wednesday morning aren't working their way ... Read More

A Plot Analysis of Earth 2 (735 words, 2 pages)

PlotA. The main idea of this story is for the colonists that landed on the new earth to get out of the terrian's (an alien life that lives on the planet) underground city, that was thought to be built a long time ago. 1. One event that is really important ... Read More

The Future Dark Ages in Ayn Rand’s Novel Anthem (867 words, 1 pages)

In the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand writes about the future dark ages. Anthem takes place in city of a technologically backwards totalitarian society, where mankind is born in the home of the infants and dies in the home of the useless. Just imagine, being born in to a life of ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (833 words, 2 pages)

Jurassic Park was a revolutionary, genetic concept of cloning extinct dinosaurs to use as show for people. In the novel Jurassic Park Michael Crichton uses the chaos theory and other examples of human error to show how a idea like Jurassic Park would not work. The one error that caused ... Read More

Jules Verne Revolutionized the Genre of Science Fiction (542 words, 1 pages)

Jules Verne The Father of Science FictionThe father of Science Fiction, a visionary French novelist, a short story writer, and a dramatist. This is the essence of the man we know today as Jules Verne. In his voluminous writings he foresaw a number of scientific devices and developments that were ... Read More

A Summary of Edward Bellamy’s Novel Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (845 words, 2 pages)

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 was an attempt to show Americans who desired the utopian sense of community what it could truly be. Looking Backward addressed the yearnings of a society stricken by economic panics and social collapse by proposing an Eden-like community in which war, hunger, greed and malice ... Read More

A Search for the Meaning of Stephen King’s Novel Firestarter (514 words, 2 pages)

Book Review1.How do I feel about this novel ? The way I feel about this novel is kind of mixedbecause , I couldn't tell if Mr. King was trying to scare me like it was a horror story or ifhe was trying to make this story more Science Fiction . ... Read More

An Analysis of Hurting Charlie in Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (616 words, 1 pages)

Hurting CharlieWhen was the last time you wanted something so much, you would sacrifice your life to have it even if just for a moment? Charlie Gordon, a 37 year old man with a learning disability, did just that. In the story Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, Charlie gets ... Read More

The Original Dream of Space Exploration in the Book From the Earth to the Moon and around the Moon by Jules Verne (364 words, 1 pages)

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON AND AROUND THE MOON BY JULES VERNE From the earth to the moon and around the moon by Jules Verne, a book about how he foresaw man reaching the moon. Through the infamous Gun Club which was nothing more than a group of disfigured ... Read More

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