... his scientific knowledge and understanding of the topics he speaks about; "The secular cooling that must some day take over the Earth."" (Seven Science Fiction Novels, pg 325) This quote is not a hypothesis, Wells states it as a fact and thus creates a sense of realism with his readers ... into the cinema. (Clarendon Literature Notes, Online) Its later Hollywood version from 1953 reflected Cold War attitudes. The First Men In The Moon, 1901, was the prophetic description of the methods of space fighting, and The War In The Air, 1908, foreshadowed the importance of air forces in combat. Ev...

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... is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art." (Charles Darwin) As an outstanding practitioner of naturalistic fiction, Jack London depicts the Darwinian perspective of Natural Selection and the Survival of the Fittest in "To Build a Fire." London shows through powerful imagery and metaphor ... by showing his ignorance towards his place in the world: Fifty degrees below zero meant eight-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to mediate upon his frailty as a cre...

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