Focus on developing a theme, idea, or a recurring problem or preoccupation that brings three works together
from the following short stories, novels, or a mixture of both - Gibson, "The Gernsback Continuum; Arnason,
"The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons,” ; Malzberg, “Making It All the Way . . . .” ; Shelley, Frankenstein; Bear,
“Schrodinger’s Plague; Wells, Time Machine, & The War of the Worlds; Russ, “A Few Things I Know About
Whileaway,"; Smith, “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard; ”Zamyatin, We; Preuss, “Half-Life,”; Waldrop, “. . . the World, as
we Know ‘t,” and Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney.
Heinlein, a noted science fiction writer and theorist, argues that science fiction possesses an implicit didactic
function.
Focusing upon three texts, explore this understanding of science fiction as a genre impelled by a didactic
function towards being a literature of social criticism. (Focus on the final clause—how does science fiction
literature comment or critique society).
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