Sci-fi Literature Themes
Time Travel #
Contact with alien
Horror
End of Humanity
Predicting the future
Parallel World
Evidence: ET
Explain: Humans make their first contact with aliens in space in sci-fi literature.
Evidence: The Last Man
By Mary Shelley talks about a plague slowly killing off humankind, leading to the end of humanity.
Explain: Humans sees the end of humanity through time travelling and going to parallel world. #
Evidence: Crosstime Traffic by
Harry Turtledove is a series of books where it talks about the technology to access parallel universe.
Explain: The protagonist travel to a parallel world and see what happen in another world.
Explain: Protagonist go to the future to see what happens or go back to the past and change something
Explain: Human can predict what will happen in the future, and try to prevent it from happening, it will sometimes create the butterfly effect.
AI taking over
Evidence: A Sound of Thunder
by Ray Bradbury talks about a hunter traveling back in time from the future where society created new technology to kill a Tyrannosaurus rex
Evidence: Robopocalypse By Daniel H. Wilson talks about AI taking over the world, and humankind become united to fight back the robopocalypse.
Evidence: In the Butterfly Effect, and A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, the butterfly was a victim killed by a hunter who travelled back in time to kill a tyrannosaurus Rex, changing the future.
Explain: It is a subgenre of Sci-fi literature which talks about using weapons for military purpose in outer space or different planets, fighting for things or justice itself.
Evidence: The Battle Of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney talking about German invasion of England via the east coast town of Harwich.
Example: Back to the future
Example: Back to the future
Example: Passengers, two people who are awakened 90 years too soon from an induced hibernation on a spaceship bound for a new planet.
Theme: Things may become different if the process is different.
Theme: End of humanity is lead by the humans itself.
Theme: AI taking over the world through controlling the internet in human life and eliminating the human race in the process
Theme: Seeing the future makes people change the past.
Themes: There are livings out there where we have not yet discover and explore.
Theme
Changing the past
Communication from the future
Time loop
Time war
Precognition
Butterfly effect
Example: The Water Knife
Imagine a world where the slow consumption of climate change has caused American society and its system to collapse.
The AI and robots built by human rules the world and finds their way to replace human
Types of Sci-fi
Romance
Wall E and the Passengers
Comedy
Men in Black and Back to the future
Popular themes of sci-fi
Travel to the stars
Taking a Trip through Time
Alien invasion
Need to colonize
The need to explore
Time travel