blog #4

 The Star

The appeal of stories about objects in space threatening the earth is because in earlier stings of objects in pace were dangerous. In my opinion they believe if they see another object in space that people should be aware of it. Also they should know what to do when they see another.  For example whenever the star got closer something bad would happen. some people looked at it like "oh whats the use to me" and others looked at it kind of worrisome. for example one of the schoolboys in the book says "stop a planet in its flight rob it of its centrifugal force, what then? centripetal has it, and down it falls into the sun! and this! do we come in the way?" If i was there i would also be worrisome because its a big star causing all these bad things the closer it gets.

Speech Sounds

 This story was actually different from the star because in this short story the main character was rye and it kept talking about this disease it had. I don't know whether it went over my head or something but i didn't really understand what the disease was. When the story said how Rye forgot how to read and speak led me to think why? Was it that since her family died did she stop talking to people in general and just forgot how to talk? Or did talking make her go back down memory lane? It kind of saddened me when the one man she met and the one man she wanted to come home with her died in such a instance. Also like Rye said it really had me was it jealousy that led the man to kill the childrens mother? It makes you think how could jealousy drive a person to kill another person?

Blog Set #3

In my opinion this story was actually very different from most science fiction stories.  Because usually in Science Fiction stories most of the times it would have something to do with an alien citing or even aliens in general, but this time it was talking about a regular family that wanted to have a regular baby. But as question "How Does Science/Technology Impinge On This Domestic Landscape"? goes I think the reason science and technology actually had something to do with it was because of the father. Because as it says on page 213 the mother was saying “darling why didn’t you write me sooner? I’m thrilled, of course, but, well, one hates to mention these things, but you are certain the doctor was right? Hanks been around all that uranium or thorium or whatever it is all these years, and I know you say he’s a designer, Not a technician and he doesn’t get near anything dangerous, but you know he used to back at oak ridge" basically it was the fathers fault the child came out like that. And all the mother thought was that the baby was normal and the baby was smarter then most babies. But you can tell towards the end that the father knew something was wrong when he said "Oh God, she didnt know"

 As to the story We See Things Differently goes I really didn’t get that story.  As the question how can we tell that the near future America depicted in this story is in economic and social decline goes was because everybody had something bad to say about America. As on page 612 it says "This is jahiliyah- the land of ignorance. This was America. The great Satan, the Arsenal of Imperialism. the Bankroll of Zionism, the Bastion of Neo-colonialism. The home of Hollywood and blonde sluts in black Nylon."  So basically  a lot of people really didn’t have any good to say about America.

BLOGGER SET #2

As I was reading the introduction it was a word that stuck out to me. The word was techno-scientific. Before I looked up the word techno-scientific I thought what it means so I broke the word down in 2. So when I hear the word techno I think it means something to do with mechanical things. Then when I hear the word science I think of chemical, equations and medicine. After I thought of what it ment I looked up the word. And when I looked up the term Techno-scientific it gave me the term techno science, the meaning of the term techno science is technological and social context of science

But as the short story "passengers" goes in my opinion is aliens are basically taking over the human body. Basically the aliens using them as their sex slave and leave whenever they please. Then when the aliens leave the humans body they leave the humans confused as to who or what they did. Some of you may disagree but the short story passengers remind me a LITTLE of the movie "Sybil" but instead of different personalities it’s just one sexual personality then when they get back into their rightful mind/body they don't know what happened. 

As to the short story “Out Of All Them Bright Stars" it was more of a prejudice story against aliens. The blue alien in the story was just another customer in the store just minding his business trying to get served and the waiter Sally was actually kind and actually served him. But it wasn't such a nice welcoming when the boss saw him. Since he looks different the boss didn’t want her to serve him. That kind of relates to life back in the day also life now, how if someone looks a certain way or if they were a certain gender or etc. people don't want to help or serve them. 

INTRODUCTION

Hey everyone its Erika. I’m 19 as you may already know I don’t really like horror movies. I will sit down and watch them but I’m not really a fan. I think the reason I really don’t like horror movies is because when i was younger when I lived in California I always took a sneak peek at scary movies with my brothers, until one day I watched it and it scared me for years. Ever since then I could never get back into it basically you can say I’m not the type that likes to get scared. I would rather prefer science fiction movies. For example I like the movies men in black, terminator, planet of the apes and avatar. As you can see I picked this class because I want to expand my knowledge of science fictional things.