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Film: Battle for Terra (2007)

Film: Battle for Terra (2007). “What if . . . ?”. List ALL Science Fiction (“Sci-Fi”) you can think of… Books Movies/TV Comics Short Stories. Science Fiction “List”: 4 th period. Science Fiction “List”: 5 th period. Science Fiction is.

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Film: Battle for Terra (2007)

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  1. Film: Battle for Terra (2007) “What if . . . ?”

  2. List ALL Science Fiction (“Sci-Fi”) you can think of… • Books • Movies/TV • Comics • Short Stories

  3. Science Fiction “List”: 4th period

  4. Science Fiction “List”: 5th period

  5. Science Fiction is . . . …fiction that involves science as part of the story. The science can involve a major role in the story or can just be part of the setting for the story. Ex: movie Outland is basically a western story (High Noon) set in a future mining colony on Io. The classic film Forbidden Planet uses science to tell the story of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”.

  6. WHAT IF. . .? • Science fiction stories and films often ask What if? • That is, they extrapolate current science, technology, and social issues to a future society or world.

  7. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

  8. Ray Bradbury (1920-) American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer

  9. The Toynbee Convector (1988)

  10. The Toynbee Convector (1988) Reading “helps”: p7: ennui = boredom, dissatisfaction p7: cynicism = distrust of human nature and motives p7: nihilism = belief that existence is senseless and useless p7: incipient = beginning to come into existence p8: melancholy = sadness p10: ramshackle = makeshift, carelessly constructed

  11. two one SIX-WORDSCI-FISTORIES five six An exercise in bounded creativity . . . four three

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