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Science Fictions (Artificial Humans (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,…

- - - - In the universe of Battlestar Galactica humans lived on a group of planets called the Twelve Colonies. Decades earlier, humans built robots called Cylons which eventually rebelled against their masters. The Cylons eventually retreated, and were unseen for decades. At the beginning of the series, the Cylons return years later with new bodies that look like humans. They use these human disguises to attack the Twelve Colonies and wipe out most of humanity. Most of the human spaceships become useless against the Cylons, as they are able to hack into the system and kill the humans with ease. The titular Battlestar Galactica is able to survive the attack due to it not being networked, and leads the surviving humans on a journey to find Earth, the legendary thirteenth colony.
  - - - Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep is a Novel by Phillip K Dick about a bounty hunter hired to "retire" several androids that have escaped to Earth. The Novel takes place in the far future, where humans have colonized mars and androids are offered to people willing to move to mars. In this future, most animals have died, and owning a real anime is considered a luxury. Rick's motivation stems from his desire to obtain a real animal, since he and his wife are only able to afford electric ones.
      - Even though the Androids are extremely similar to humans, they are still treated as servants, given to people as a reward to moving to Mars, and disposed of when they are no longer needed
  - - - Never Let Me Go is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a group of clones who are raised to be harvested for their organs. The Novel follows Kathy H, a woman who grew up in a boarding school called Hailsham. It is eventually revealed that all of the students at Hailsham are clones, and they are being raised in order to be harvested for their body parts. The clones desperately try to delay their inevitable early death. However, the novel ends with all the named clones other than Kathy having "completed", and Kathy well are that her death is coming soon after
  - - - This episode of the anthology series Black Mirror centers on Martha, a woman who loses her husband Ash in a car crash. Martha is naturally devastated by this unexpected loss, so her friend recommends new service that can recreate a dead loved one’s personality through their online presence. Martha reluctantly agrees to try it and gives the company access to her husbands emails and social media. The service creates an AI that is able to respond convincingly through text, so Martha is persuaded to give them access to images and videos of Ash in order for them to recreate his voice. The service creates a voice that Martha is able to communicate with on her cell phone and she becomes obsessed with it, convincing herself that she is talking with the real Ash. The fake Ash eventually tells Martha about a new, experimental phase to the service, that would create an artificial body, resembling the real Ash, that the AI could be uploaded into. Martha agrees, and a blank, synthetic body is delivered to her. Martha follows the AI Ash’s instructions and the blank body grows into to a replica of Ash.
        While the fake ash looks and sounds extremely similar to the real Ash, Martha soon becomes frustrated with the small in which the fake Ash differers from the real one, such as a missing mole on his chest. She becomes increasingly frustrated as she realizes how little of the real Ash’s personality the fake Ash has retained. The android unquestioningly follows all of her commands, and does not show any emotion unless she specifically tells it to. Martha eventually takes it to a cliff, and tells it to commit suicide. The android begins to, until Martha tells it in frustration that Ash would never have done so. It then begins to beg for its life.
        The episodes ends by revealing that years later, Martha is keeping the fake Ash locked in the attic.
- - - - Story of Your Life is a Novel by Ted Chaing, which portrays humanity’s first encounters with an alien race called heptapods. The story is from the perspective of Dr. Louise Banks, a linguist who is researching the heptapods and studying their language. The novella begins at the moment in which Louise and her husband agree to have a baby, but from that point on, the story switches between a past-tense narrative about Louise’s experiences with the heptapods, and a future-tense narrative about Louise and her future daughter, who will die in a rock-climbing accident at age twenty-five. Later on it is revealed that Louise’s knowledge of the heptapod’s language has caused her to be aware of the future, but has also changed the way in which she views reality. Even though she is aware that her daughter will die tragically young in a presentable accident, Louise will do nothing to prevent her daughter’s death and instead will let her daughter’s life play out as she has foreseen it.
    - - Anachronistic Order: Both Station Eleven and Story of Your Life start with a specific moment, then explore the events that lead to that moment, and the aftermath of that moment, then eventually return to that moment at the end. Both of these works skip back and forth in from past to future from that point, then eventually returning back to the moment it started.
        Unlike Story of your life, Station Eleven is entirely in past tense. While the point of reference for the novel is Arthurs death, events that take place during and after this moment are still narrated in past tense. This is in contrast to Story of Your Life, where events that take place at the moment Louise and Gary decide to have a baby is presented in present tense, events taking place before are in past tense, and events that take place later are narrated in future tense.
  - - - This episode of the Twilight Zone takes place in an ordinary American town. After witnessing a mysterious flash of light and loosing power, the neighbors begin to distrust one another. This eventually escalates into violent chaos as the neighbors accuse each other of being aliens. The end of the episode reveals that the whole incident was orchastrated by real aliens in order for humans to destroy each other.
  - - - The Word For World is Forest is a Novel written by Ursula Le Guin. In the world of this novel, humans have run out of wood on Terra (Earth) and have begun colonizing other planets in order to find more of it. One of these planets is called Athshe, and is home to small, furry and peaceful beings called Athsheans. The Athsheans, lead by Selver, an Athshean who's wife has been raped and murdered by humans, rebel and eventually drive out the humans, but the interactions between the two races has fundamentally changed Athsheans.
    - - Oppression
- - - - H. G. Wells's The Time machine is a novel about a man who creates a machine that sends him far into the future. There, he finds that humanity has evolved into two separate species, the small peaceful Eloi, and the savage, apelike Morlocks. The time traveler is initially unsure about the relationship between the two races, and theorizes that these split may be the due to widening split between social classes. He eventually discovered that the Morlocks raise the Eloi and eventually kill and eat them.
- - - - Station Eleven is a novel about a flu virus that wipes out most of the human race. The novel moves back and forth in time, following a group of characters who all have a sort of connection with an actor named Arthur Leander. The book explores the implications of the collapse of society and its effects on the individuals. These include: Kirsten, a woman who was on stage the night Arthur died, and decides to dedicate her life toward performing Shakespeare, Miranda, Arthur's first wife, a cartoonist who was killed in the outbreak, and Clark, Arthurs former best friend, who decides to create a museum of humanity.
  - - - There Will Come Soft Rains is a short story by Ray Bradbury. It takes place in an automated house after all it's occupants have died. The house continues it's normal functions, such as making breakfast and announcing the time, until it eventually catches fire and is destroyed.
  - - - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a post apocalyptic move that takes place one thousand years after civilization has been destroyed in a massive war named the "Seven Days of Fire". The fallout from the war also created a massive toxic jungle with mutant insect-like creatures. The movie follows Nausicaä, the princess of a minor kingdom named the Valley of the Wind. Nausicaä is characterized by her bravery and empathy. She explores the toxic jungle in order to find resources for her people, and is repeatedly shown to have a string connection with animals. Unlike other humans, Nausicaä tries to empathize with the Ohm, gigantic insect-like creatures that live in the toxic jungle. While the Ohm are usually peaceful, if someone kills an insect near them they will fall into a blind rage. Because of the enormous size of these creatures, they are able to destroy entire cities in when they go berserk. The main conflict of the movie arises when the Valley of The Wind comes into possession of an embryo of a Giant Warriors, humanoid weapons which were used during the Seven Days of Fire. Tolmekia, another, larger kingdom attacks the Valley of the Wind in order to steal the Warrior and use it to destroy the Toxic Jungle. However, Nausicaä discovers that the plants that grow from the jungle are not inherrently toxic, they have simply grown in soil that has been contaminated by humans. After an initial conflict with the Tolmekians it is revealed that the plants of the Jungle are simply purifying the polluted soil, and they are producing clean and unpolluted water below the surface. A group of resistance fighters, are shown to be using a wounded baby Ohm in order to lure a stampede of Ohm into the Valley of the Wind and destroy the Tolmekians. At the end of the movie Nausicaä succeeds in rescuing the baby Ohm and pacifying the rampaging herd, though bot before the Tolmekian tanks and the prematurely hatched giant are destroyed by the Ohms.