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Science Fiction

Science fiction is a literary genre typically based in the future and involving extreme, although not impossible, advances in science and technology.

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What is the second twilight book?

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In the second twilight book, Edward leaves Bella for her own good, as he begins to think that he is too dangerous for Bella after an incident on her birthday, and leaves her in the middle of the woods. She starts to fall in love with Jacob Black after he reveals his secret of being a werewolf, and she starts seeing him. However, Edward returns at the end of the book, and they return together as a couple, much to Jacob's disgust.

What is the name of the princess in Tales of Despereaux?

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Princess Pea. She lives in an area called Kingdom Dor.

What are the distinguishing features of a story that cause it to be considered science fiction?

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Here are some elements that make a story science fiction:

  • Time: story is set in the future, an alternate timeline, or an alternate history
  • Space: story is set on another planet, in another dimension, in outer space, or somewhere else that is possible, such as underneath the planet's surface or underwater
  • Characters: story includes characters such as robots, aliens, mutants, or cybernetic humans
  • Technology: story includes technology beyond what we have today, such as wrap drives, plasma weapons, teleportation devices, or human-computer interfaces.
  • Science: story includes science that is beyond what we know today, or that contradicts what we know today
  • Social: story included political, cultural, or social situations which would create or sustain any of the above (such as post-apocalypse, dystopias, or utopias)
  • Paranormal: story includes super-human abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis, or mind control.

Here is a link to the entire WikiPedia article about the elements of science fiction.

What is the moral lesson of the literature the monkey's point of view?

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The moral lesson of this literature is that some have to be careful in what he/she wishes for. The characterâ??s wish always comes true but it is always in a bad manner.

Do potato cubes gain or lose mass in salt water solutions?

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depends on the salt content of the potato and how concentrated the salt is. the more salt there is in the water than the potato- the more water will exit the potato which then loses mass.

What is the plot for Olive's Ocean?

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The book is centered around twelve year old Martha Boyle. Her fellow classmate Olive Barstrow had just died after being hit by a car while riding her bike. Olive's mother shows up at Martha's front door handing her a piece of Olive's writing from her journal. It says Olive wants to be a writer and she wants to get to know Martha more. Martha's family leaves for Cape Cod the next day to visit her grandmother. Martha's father is Mr. Boyle (a novelist), and her mother is Mrs. Hubbard who works on the radio. Martha also has a 13 year old brother named Vince and a two year old sister named Lucy. Before leaving for the trip Martha had decided to be a novelist like her father. She didn't want to tell her family.She and her father relationship was not that close and she didn't tell her father that she was going to be a writer because she thought they would think she was copying her father. But she plans to tell them before they leave their grandmother's house. The Manning's live next door to Martha's grandmother's house. They have five boys in different age groups, Martha had wanted to see Tate Manning. But instead she meets Jimmy (the oldest) who is making a movie about different things. Martha sees what Jimmy has got so far on his tape. Jimmy tells her that he needs to film the death part and love part still. Meanwhile she and her grandmother have promised each other to tell something about themselves everyday and Martha is working on her story about a girl named Olive. Her dad stressed out at the dinner table once and decided to stop working on his book and does another type of work. As Jimmy and Martha hangout time after time Martha begins to like Jimmy. Then one night Jimmy sets up his video camera and kisses Martha. She then realizes Jimmy was just using her for his tape. Then when on the beach with her little sister she sees Jimmy holding hands with another girl. She then almost drowns in the ocean. At the end of the vacation Martha now has a stronger relationship with her grandmother. Tate had promised to be there before Martha left, but doesn't show up. Right when the car was leaving he comes running after it. They stop the car and Tate gives Martha a brown bag then runs off. In the bag is Jimmy's tape and a note saying along the lines of that Jimmy was gonna kill him and that he had been the one who really liked her. The end said P.S.S. Really. On the plane ride back she writes a letter to Olive's mother, but discovers that Olive's mother had moved. She visits where Olive and her mother used to live and talks to a man about why she moved. When the man leaves, she writes Olive on the bench where Olive always sat using a jar of water she brought back from the ocean. Then she runs home to her family as fast as her body can take her.

What is the setting of 'The Fun They Had' by Isaac Asimov?

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If you look in the first few sentences it will boldly tell you the setting. :) _____ The setting is the future. It seems that the educational system has changed a lot, and the main character of the story, Margie, learns about what school was like in the past, and how different things are for her.

Who wrote day of the triffids?

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John Wyndham wrote The Day of the Triffids.

Are zombies coming in the future?

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Most likely, no. However, science is unpredictable! You never know...!

It is a possibility, but not a very likely one! In real life no one has ever demonstrated an ability to reanimate the dead, so there is no scientific reason to think there will ever be zombies.

There are already zombie-like parasites and viruses that infect insects. This combined with the fact that wood frogs freeze themselves completely in the winter months and reanimate spontaneously afterwards leads to the potential of science fully taking hold of cryogenics and bringing people who have been dead for years back from the grave. These could be considered as zombies, but not the traditional horror zombies, so in that sense there will never be zombies.

To correct something said above... Once upon a time, not too many years ago, death was defined by the stoppage of the heart. If your heart stopped, that was it. Now we routinely defibrillate, and use adrenalin, or heart massage, to restart hearts. By that standard, "zombies" already exist!

Now death is defined as brain death. Maybe someday we will learn to restart brains as well, and need a new definition of "dead".

Are the Watchmen superheroes?

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Yes, in the sense that they are a group of super-powered beings (and non-super individuals) that have banded together for the purpose of fighting crime. The characters, however, are not as easily classified as those superheroes possessing a greater sense of optimism, strong ideals, and obvious motives for their actions; unambiguous characters such as Superman, Captain America, or Spider-Man. The Watchmen could be better categorized as "antiheroes."

Why was the book 'Stranger in a Strange Land' important?

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In the book "Stranger in a Strange Land", how did the character, Valentine Michael Smith change?

Does anyone have the chapter summaries for the Golden Goblet?

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If you use book rags you should be able to find all the chapter summaries for golden goblet...

Why did HG Wells write the time machine?

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Here are the only things I could find out about why HG Wells wrote The Time Machine:

  • Jonathan Smith's 'Gulliver's Travels
  • Based in Kew Gardens- Garden of Eden- A few miles from The Time Traveller in Richmond ~ Represents: Peace & happiness, unending work (always something to do in a garden), perfect life (reached the goal).
  • Went to a science college -- He likes science
  • The Time Machine was the first novel about Time Travel, starting off a new era, so he must have wanted to be the first to write about it.
  • He was interested in the theories of Time Travel.

Who is the first stranger at the Three Jolly Bargemen?

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The mysterious stranger at the bar Three Jolly Bargemen looked very unusual. One eye was half closed and he wore a traveller's hat and a handkerchief that covered all of his hair. Pip recognizes him later in the story because of his half closed eye.

What is Edward Cullen's fathers name?

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(Kar-lie-uhl) is how you pernounce carlisle (edward's dad)

and Esme (edward's mother) is (es-may) like the month of may

What things do Jonas' parents reassure him about his worries in chapter 2?

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That they had already had their ceremony of 12, and they both got the assignment they had wanted.

Who dies in midnight sun by Stephenie Meyer?

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The book has not been released yet, but it is Twilight in Edward's point of view. So James dies.

What are major events in joey pigza swallowed the key?

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He Got kicked out of class and then got sent to the principles office.

Where did Frankensteins monster come to life?

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The biggest event that changed the monsters was when he attempted to approach the peasents who he watched and learned from. He was talking to the blind old grandfather when the grandkids came back to the house and chased him away. They eventually moved away and the Monster hated himself and his body. He was angry and mad at the peasents and his creator for making him so ugly. After sucessfully burning down the cottage he vowed revenge on his creator.After mudering Frankensteins younger brother, he goes to Victor Frankenstein to ask for a mate and his own creator spurns him. So then the monster goes on a killing spree evetually killing all of his creators frinds and family.

Are they ever going to make movies of all of Garth nix's books?

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It actually might depend if the book is a best seller then probably. But if the book doesn't get to be a best seller then no. Oh ya does anyone know when Lord Sunday will come out???

its out now

What is the first 'Doctor Who' book called and who was the author?

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The first Doctor Who book to be published was Doctor Who and an exciting adventure with the Daleks written by David Whitaker. It was an adaptation of the First Dalek Story. However the book starts differently to the story it is adapting with Ian and Babara finding the Tardis and being whisked away, wheras in the Classic Series these events happened int he firsy story "An Unearthly Child". It was recently released on audiobook by the BBC read by William Russell who played Ian Chesterton in the Classic Series.

What is the name of the science fiction writer?

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The big three are Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein.

Others include: Frank Hebert, Philip Dick, Larry Niven, Frederic Pohl, William Gibson, and Orson Scott Card