Discussion Blog Week 3/15

We have read Basalla and MecLeod's articles about development of colonial science throughout the history. Basalla gives us a clear three-phase progress while MecLod argues that it involes politics. I just want to ask for everyone: which one do you think is more accurate in interperating the colonial science in the colonial period of the world and which one can be applied to current countries? Do you think it is the political factor or the economic factor that encourages the colonical science to develop?

Discussion Blog Week 3/8

So here is a question I now pose to everyone, we've talked about what makes good science fiction, we've talked about science and power and almost everything related to that. However, I am wondering whether or not you guys have any recommendations to me as far as science fiction goes. In terms of books or movie or tv shows it doesn't matter.

To actually post a question, however, I was wondering whether or not you all read into the scripts of shows or movies or in between the lines of text in order to find out a hidden meaning. If you don't normally do this...do you not enjoy doing it or have you not found anything that is intriguing enough?

I know for myself that I don't personally like reading into a story...but if its something that has an in depth plot line that I need to consider certain characteristics to understand the story then I will do so. Let me know your thoughts/if you have any questions

Discussion Post 5

Well we've all been reading and discussing about a whole lot of science-fiction (in-class and on this blog), both colonial sci-fi and modern, that is post-colonial sci-fi.

So let me ask you, what do you think makes good science fiction? Here I'm talking about books, movies, shows, etc. basically any science fiction artifact. How do we judge the quality of that artifact? By the realistic possibility of it happening? By the philosophical/scientific questions it raises? By the technology it depicts? By the depth of its plot and characters, like any other form of fiction? Or something else?

Here's a few snippets from really extraordinary science fiction I'm aware of, just to get you all thinking on what I consider great science fiction.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (book)

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2. Star Trek (franchise)

Courtesy: Paramount Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment

3. Jules Verne (author)

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