Browsing by Subject "science fiction"
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(2020-04-29)Entertainment media play a significant role in the dissemination of science to the public. The persuasive ability of media texts, primarily film and televisions productions, can influence the public’s understanding and ...
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Speculative fiction works of literature are full of unreal futuristic technologies meant to amuse and interest the reader in a potential or alternate future. Some readings of such novels occasionally reveal that through ...
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(1986)Contemporary authors of science fiction began creating vivid examples of artificial intelligence as long ago as 1921. Their imaginative depictions can be broken into three basic categories. First are those stories in which ...
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(2018-07-27)The goal of this study stems from one primary question: how are black women’s futures currently being imagined in works of cultural production? In this dissertation, I make the case that speculative and science fiction is ...
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(Kennesaw State University-African and African Diaspora Studies, 2014-06)Website devoted to a 2-day workshop for Kennesaw State University faculty to develop a methodology for infusing Islamic popular culture into the teaching curriculum for K-12 and undergraduate students.
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Literature Review: Much of the current available scholarship on science fiction and its engagement with the spiritual centers about religious tropes in science fiction, such as aliens as deities, gnosticism, the “personhood” ...
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(2009-05-15)This original novel with a critical introduction is a summary and capstone of my study of creative writing at Texas A&M University. The introduction uses storytelling traditions in genre science fiction as well as non-genre ...
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(2019-03-29)This thesis contains the critical introduction and the full text of my original science fiction novel, The Pirate Queen. The critical introduction details the literary, theoretical, and historical influences that led to ...
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(1990)The differentiation which has occurred between science fiction/fantasy and what I have called the mainstream, and between science fiction and fantasy, is also present in important form within the two fields. This distinction ...
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This work is a creative thesis and focuses primarily on the reactions people have when in times of crisis, as well as introspection on whether or not it would be the moral decision to change things in the past, if it were ...
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(Texas A&M University Libraries, 2017)Catalog of an exhibit held in the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives at Texas A&M University, February 10-October 10, 2017.