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Science Fiction

How would you define it?

● fake● some scientific info● exciting/thriller● real characters & fake

characters● magic tree house● unrealistic tech● into the future● hunger games● what scientists belive●

Merriam Webster

"fiction dealing principally with the impact of actual or imagined science on society or individuals or having a scientific factor as an essential orienting component "

Isaac Asimov

"That branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance upon human beings."

Image: United States Library of Congress. Call number: NYWTS - BIOG--Asimov, Isaac, Dr. <item> [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-115121

-- Isaac Asimov, in "Modern Science Fiction," edited by Reginald Bretnor (1953)

"A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method."

Robert A. Heinlein

Image by Dd-b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heinlein-face.jpg)

-- from: "Science Fiction: its nature, faults and virtues" in The Science Fiction Novel, 1969

Clarke's 3 Laws

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Ursula K. Le Guin

"All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors, drawn from certain great dominants of our contemporary life -- science, all the sciences, and technology, and the relativistic and the historical outlook, among them. Space travel is one of these metaphors; so is an alternative society, an alternative biology; the future is another. The future, in fiction, is a metaphor."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin in the introduction of The Left Hand of Darkness

Image via http://scienceblogs.com/universe/2010/03/_ursula_k_leguin_is.php

Moon Trips

● Princess Kaguya 10th century● Somnium by Johannes

Kepler 1630● "The Unparalleled Adventure of

One Hans Pfaall" by Edgar Allen Poe 1835

● From Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne 1865

● First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells 1901

● Feed by M.T. Anderson, 2004● Life As We Knew It �by Susan

Beth Pfeffer, 2006● Cosmic by Frank Cottrell

Boyce, 2010

"Earthrise" Image from NASA 12/24/2008 http://www.archive.org/details/297755main_GPN-2001-000009_full

Princess Kaguya

c. 1650 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taketori_Monogatari_2.jpg

Somnium

Image by Bettina Forget via http://www.bettinaforget.com/portfolio/2010/06/29/somnium-moonfish/

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall

Illustration by Yan Dargent, 1864 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poe_Hans_Pfaall_Yan_Dargent.jpg

From Earth to the Moon

Illustration by Henri de Montaut, 1868 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%27From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon%27_by_Henri_de_Montaut_39.jpg

First Men in the Moon

Picture by E. Hering, 1901 via http://books.google.com/books?id=Hlk4AAAAYAAJ&dq=first%20men%20in%20the%20moon&pg=PA104-IA1#v=onepage&q=first%20men%20in%20the%20moon&f=true

Life As We Knew It

Cosmic

Jacket art by Bill Mayer, 2010

Aliens

● True History by Lucian 2nd century

● "Micromegas" by Voltaire, 1752

● War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 1898

● True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, 2007

● Larklight by Philip Reeve, 2006

● Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1985

From Attack of the Clones, 2002 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CGIYoda.jpg

True History

Illustration by William Strang, 1894 via http://books.google.com/books?id=vfbPAAAAMAAJ&dq=true%20history%20lucian&pg=PA20-IA2#v=onepage&q=true%20history%20lucian&f=false

Micromegas

Image by Chalres Monnet via http://www.scholarsresource.com/browse/work/2144597724

War of the Worlds

Drawing by Alvim Correa, 1906 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Correa-Martians_vs._Thunder_Child.jpg

True Meaning of Smekday

Cover illustration by Adam Rex, 2007

Larklight

Cover art by David Wyatt, 2006

Ender's Game

Robots

● One Thousand and One Nights

● Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1907

● R.U.R. by Karel Capek,1921● Spacer and Rat by Margaret

Bechard, 2005● Jimmy Coates: Assassin? by

Joe Craig, 2006● Skinned by Robin

Wasserman, 2008● Search For Wondla by Tony

DiTerlizzi, 2010Image from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marvin-TV-3.jpg

One Thousand and One Nights

Woodcut by William Harvey, 1850 via http://books.google.com/books?id=s6BbAAAAQAAJ&dq=one%20thousand%20and%20one%20nights&pg=PA352#v=onepage&q=ebony&f=false

Ozma of Oz

Illustration by John R. Neill, 1907 via http://books.google.com/books?id=A-EQAAAAYAAJ&dq=ozma%20of%20oz%201907&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=ozma%20of%20oz%201907&f=false

WPA poster, 1939 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wpa-marionette-theater-presents-rur.jpg

Three Laws of Robotics

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Illustration by Ed Cartier, ,1950 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I_robot.jpg

Skinned

Cover by Cara E. Petrus & Micahael Frost, 2008

Search for Wondla

Cover by Tony DiTerlizzi, 2010

Spacer and Rat

Cover photograph by Michael Llwellyn, 2005

Time Travel

● Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy, 1887

● A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, 1889

● The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, 1895

● A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle, 1962

● King of Shadows by Susan Cooper, 1999

● Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix, 2008 Picture taken by Zir, 2007 via http://en.

wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TARDIS2.jpg

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

via http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=10902

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Illustration by Daniel Carter Beard, 1889 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Connecticut_Yankee4_new.jpg

The Time Machine

from Classics Illustrated, 1956 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Time_Machine_Classics_Illustrated_133.jpg

A Wrinkle In Time

Jacket art by Taeeun Yoo, 2007

King of Shadows

Cover art by Rafal Olbinsky, 2001

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Create Your Own Science Fiction Book

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Use the science fiction plot tree to create a plot and title

Example: Time GiverIn a future destroyed world a teenage alien and an android that wishes to be human fight memories of the past because time needs to be fixed.

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Go to www.flickr.com● Search for a cover image● Click on 'advanced search'

● Scroll to the bottom and check 'only search within Creative Commons licensed content

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Select an image that you like and click on it● Go to the 'actions' drop menu and select ' view all sizes'

● Download the photo● Make note of who took it

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Open a new word document● Insert the picture (or drag and drop)● re-size photo to width of 4.5● rotate if needed● Select wrapping style 'Behind Text'

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Go to insert on the menu bar● Select 'Word Art'

● Choose a word art style

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Customize your title's shape and

color with the toolbox

● Double click on 'your text here' ● Type in your title and select a font

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Insert a text box for the author's

name (yours)

● Customize the font using the toolbox

● Add another text box to cite your image

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book

Notice cover image citation!

Create Your Own Science Fiction BookFinished early? Complete the rest of the jacket!

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● From 'File' on the menu bar,

select 'Page Setup'

● Select the landscape orientation

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Select the object palette in the toolbox and add a

rectangle

● Draw a rectangle the same size as your cover● Go back to the formatting palette in your toolbox and

chose the wrapping 'in front of text'

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Select a fill color for your rectangle

that matches your cover● Try using the 'Pick A Color' tool● Click the eyedropper on your cover

over a color that you like● Add a text box with your plot

description from the science fiction plot generator

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Add fake review quotes or any other details you'd like

If you use another image, be sure to cite it!

Create Your Own Science Fiction Book● Make a spine for the final touch● Copy and paste the rectangle from your back cover● Re-size it to fit between the two covers● Copy and paste your title from your cover● Rotate it to the right so it will fit on your spine

● Add one last textbox for the author's last name (yours)

Create Your Own Science Fiction BookCongratulations, You're done! E-mail your creation to ebretall@mcds.org

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