Tag: social commentary in science fiction
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Social Commentary in Science Fiction: The Hunger Games
In less than a month I have read the entire Hunger Games trilogy and watched the first film for a third time. My head is now so full of this stuff that I have to give the trilogy its own post in my popular “social commentary” series. It has been a while since I have…
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Book Review: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
This is the least typical of Wyndham’s novels in that it is set in the far future and not in middle England. This is a tale of a small agricultural community on the island of Labrador in a far future post-apocalyptic world. Their historical documents refer to the people of old who were destroyed by…
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Examples of Social Commentary in Science Fiction
So I can’t really get the events of Frankenstein out of my head and it is still giving me much to ponder, not in and of itself, but how science fiction is such a major and important conduit for social commentary. If I had studied sociology instead of archaeology at university, I would like to…
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