... been BBC2's biggest comedy show. I will begin by discussing the history of the Sitcom as a genre; secondly I will trace the history of the Science fiction Genre and finally, I'll analyse how Red Dwarf has taken elements from both of these to create its own unique hybrid entity. A situation comedy ... in the universe. Due to the incredible success of these movies, sequels were made of both movies and then more films were made. Not all science fiction was aimed at a youth market though, The Clockwork Orange' 1971 explored violence in a future time, Flesh Gordon' 1974 used the older film ...

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... human race and you've got yourself quite a dystopia. It almost seems that we love the idea of a dystopia. Almost all of the popular science fiction texts are concerned with it. And those that aren't complete dystopias still aren't showing technology as making earth a better world. Why though ... So, it could also be a warning against war in general. Other than the dystopia sci fi's, it seems that the Wachowski brothers had some non science fiction influences for their dystopia. Larry Wachowski stated that "we're interested in mythology, archetypes, and trying to reinvestigate them in a m...

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... continuous theme of History. Lafferty blended the history with a bit of his own ideas to create this award-winning book. Very few other, modern science fiction writers can match R.A. Lafferty's achievements. Robert Sawyer, a Canadian sci-fi writer, was quoted in saying that Canadian writer have much more ... until writers lost direction in the early 1950s. It is very possible that Lafferty was a member of the group of writers that put science fiction back on track. Lafferty's collection of essays shows this evolution to continue. It is possible that Moskowitz would agree with this assump...

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... for Frankenstein may have been influenced at least in part through the many discussions the groups might have had with one another. Mary Shelley wrote in the infancy of modern science, when its enormous possibilities were just beginning to be foreseen by imaginative writers such as her friend Byron and husband Percy Shelley as well as by speculative scientists. However, at ... they represented, that machines could effectively imitate the actions of the living. One consequence of this equation of man and mechanism was an erasure of the moral boundaries between what science could create a...

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Released in 1927, "Metropolis" is a silent science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, the famous German Expressionist filmmaker. The setting is that of a futuristic dystopia, with soaring skyscrapers, flying cars, and an intricate ... unison rather than seek to control one another. Keeping in mind that this film was made in 1927, it is quite interesting to see how many of the science fiction aspects of the plot are actually pretty accurate in real life. Even more interesting is that only themes, but also imagery from Metropolis are reused almost excessively ... this day, we can see that th...

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... distance future is a definite possibility. The only problem lies in propelling a craft to such speed at which light travels. Carl Sagan wrote a science fiction novel about a fictional device that allowed his character to travel great distances across the universe. "Those faster than light speeds are not ... achievable; he also knew there was a common convention in science fiction that would allow a gimmick of a shortcut through "Hyper space" as a means around this problem( par2 ) ." Sagen turned to Kip Thorne ... own dimension, but quite possible to travel back in time to an alternate di...

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... his mother down and even questions her love for him. Along with this Jimmy's father can not really identify with him as a person. While Jimmy's father is infatuated with numbers, science, and profit, Jimmy has more of an interest with words, aesthetic and the arts. As Jimmy gets old he is not able to develop genuine relationship with females, he fills ... on into high school he meets the genius Glenn, known as Crake, who later changes the face of humanity forever. Unlike Jimmy Crake's mind is solely governed by logic and science. This mindset allows Crake to have a totally different and...

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