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.