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Science Fictions (The Other (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by…

- - - - The androids in the novel seem to become the other due in part to the fact that they are so similar to humans. This is evident because there is nothing objectively wrong with the androids except they are a little too like us and thus we are uncomfortable with them. Therefore, in this case innovation brought on this sense of 'otherness' with the androids.
- - - - In The Word for World is Forest, Captain Davidson derives much of his self-perceived power from the fact that he thinks of the Athsheans as others and therefore that a specimen like himself 'must' be in power over the Athsheans. This is shown many times throughout the novel even down to the Terran calling Athsheans "Creechies," because that is in a way downgrading the legitimacy of a species' own name.
  - - - Complicity in the novel Kindred is directly connected to a character's agency and power within the society. Dana has no agency and no power in the antebellum south and thus she is not complicit in slavery or racism. Whereas Kevin has agency in the 1800's and is able to hold a considerable amount of power if he wanted to and thus is very much complicit.
  - - - To a less extreme extent the population of Fahrenheit 451 lives in a similar way to the Eloi in The Time Machine. This is because they really don't do much of anything substantive, they have jobs, but it seems like the jobs just serve to reinforce the power structure of the book, and they flit around and talk carelessly about any matter of things, even nuclear war. This is very similar to the Eloi and this is again due to the innovation in each society. In Fahrenheit 451 it seems that the government is mandating this sort of devolution whereas the story of the Eloi and Morlocks is not fully known.