Fantasy is one of the genres of literature, cinema and fine arts. It originates in the deep past. Even at the dawn of his appearance, man admitted the presence of mysterious and powerful forces in the world around him. The first fantasy is folklore, fairy tales, myths and legends. At the heart of this genre lies some incredible, supernatural assumption, an element of something unusual or impossible, a violation of the boundaries of reality familiar to a person.
The beginning of the development of fantasy in cinema
From literature, the genre moved to cinema almost immediately after its inception. The first science fiction films appeared in France in the 19th century. In those years, the best director in this genre was Georges Méliès. His fantastic film A Journey to the Moon was included in the golden fund of the world's masterpieces of cinema and became the first picture that tells about space travel. At this time, fantasy is an opportunity to show the achievements of human progress on the screen: amazing mechanisms and machines, vehicles.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, science fiction films have been gaining more and more popularity, and audience interest in them has been growing.
Types of fantasy
In cinema, fantasy is a genre whose boundaries are difficult to define. Usually it is a mixture of different styles and forms of cinema. There is a division into types of science fiction, but it is largely conditional.
Science fiction is a story about incredible technical and other discoveries, travel through time, cross space, use artificial intelligence to create.
The film "Prometheus" is an interesting picture with a philosophical meaning about a person's search for an answer to the main question: who are we and where did we come from? As a result, scientists have received evidence that humanity was created by a highly developed humanoid race. A scientific expedition is sent to the edge of the solar system in search of its creators. Each team member has his own interest: someone wants to get an answer why humanity was created, someone is driven by curiosity, and some pursue selfish goals. But the creators are not at all what people imagined them to be.
space fantasy
This view is very closely intertwined with science fiction. A striking example is the recently released and critically acclaimed film Interstellar about the possibility of traveling through black holes and the spatio-temporal paradoxes that arise from this. Like Prometheus, this picture is filled with deep philosophical meaning.
Fantasy is science fiction, which is closely related to mysticism and fairy tales. The most striking example of a fantasy film is Peter Jackson's famous epic saga The Lord of the Rings. Of the most recent interesting works in this genre, the Hobbit trilogy and the latest work by Sergei Bodrov, The Seventh Son, can be noted.
Horror - oddly enough, this genre is also closely related to science fiction. A classic example is the Alien film series.
Fantasy: films that have become classics of cinema
In addition to the films already mentioned, there are still a large number of magnificent paintings included in the list of the best works in the fantasy genre:
- The space saga Star Wars.
- Terminator movie series.
- Fantasy cycle "Chronicles of Narnia".
- The Iron Man Trilogy.
- Series "Highlander".
- Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio.
- Fantastic comedy "Back to the Future".
- "Dune".
- The Matrix trilogy with Keanu Reeves.
- Post-apocalyptic painting "I am a legend."
- Fantastic comedy "Men in Black".
- "War of the Worlds" with Tom Cruise.
- Combat space science fiction Starship Troopers.
- The Fifth Element with Bruce Willis and Mila Jovovich.
- Series of films "Transformers".
- Spider-Man cycle.
- A series of films about Batman.
The development of the genre today
Modern science fiction - films and animated films - continues to be of interest to the viewer today.
For 2015 alone, several large-scale and spectacular science fiction films have been announced. Among the most anticipated films are the final film from the Hunger Games series, the second part of The Maze Runner, Star Wars Episode 7 - The Force Awakens, Terminator 5, Tomorrowland, the sequel to Divergent, the new a motion picture from the Avengers series and the long-awaited Jurassic World.
Conclusion
Fantasy is what gives a person the opportunity to dream. Here you can be a superhero saving the world, admit the possibility of the existence of other worlds and fly into the depths of space. For this, viewers love science fiction films - dreams come true in them.
Introduction
The purpose of this work is to analyze the features of the use of scientific terminology in the novel "The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin" by A.N. Tolstoy.
The topic of the course project is extremely relevant, since in science fiction we often find the use of terminology of a different nature, which is the norm for this type of literature. This approach is especially characteristic of the genre of "hard" science fiction, to which A.N. Tolstoy "Hyperboloid engineer Garin".
Object of work - terms in science fiction works
In the first chapter, we consider the features of science fiction and its types, as well as the specifics of the style of A.N. Tolstoy.
In the second chapter, we consider the specifics of terminology and the peculiarities of the use of terminology in SF and the novel by A.N. Tolstoy "Hyperboloid engineer Garin".
Chapter 1. Science fiction and its style
The peculiarity of the genre of science fiction
Science fiction (SF) is a genre in literature, cinema and other arts, one of the varieties of science fiction. Science fiction is based on fantastic assumptions in science and technology, including both the natural sciences and the humanities. Works based on non-scientific assumptions belong to other genres. The topics of science fiction works are new discoveries, inventions, facts unknown to science, space exploration and time travel.
The author of the term "science fiction" is Yakov Perelman, who introduced this concept in 1914. Prior to this, a similar term - "fantastically scientific journeys" - was used by Alexander Kuprin in relation to Wells and other authors in his article "Redard Kipling" (1908).
There is much debate among critics and literary scholars about what counts as science fiction. However, most of them agree that science fiction is literature based on some assumption in the field of science: the emergence of a new invention, the discovery of new laws of nature, sometimes even the construction of new models of society (social fiction).
In a narrow sense, science fiction is about technologies and scientific discoveries (only supposed or already made), their exciting possibilities, their positive or negative impact, about the paradoxes that can arise. SF in such a narrow sense awakens the scientific imagination, makes you think about the future and the possibilities of science.
In a more general sense, science fiction is fantasy without the fabulous and mystical, where hypotheses are built about worlds without otherworldly forces, and the real world is imitated. Otherwise, it is fantasy or mysticism with a technical touch.
Often the action of SF takes place in the distant future, which makes SF related to futurology, the science of predicting the world of the future. Many science fiction writers dedicate their work to literary futurology, attempts to guess and describe the real future of the Earth, as did Arthur Clark, Stanislav Lem, and others. Other writers use the future only as a setting that allows them to fully reveal the idea of their work.
However, futuristic fiction and science fiction are not exactly the same thing. The action of many science fiction works takes place in the conditional present (K. Bulychev's The Great Guslar, most of the books by J. Verne, the stories of G. Wells, R. Bradbury) or even the past (books about time travel). At the same time, the action of non-science fiction works is sometimes placed in the future. For example, the action of many fantasy works takes place on an Earth that has changed after a nuclear war (Shannara by T. Brooks, Awakening of the Stone God by F. H. Farmer, Sos Rope by P. Anthony). Therefore, a more reliable criterion is not the time of action, but the area of fantastic assumption.
G. L. Oldie conditionally divides science fiction assumptions into natural sciences and humanities sciences. The first includes the introduction of new inventions and laws of nature into the work, which is typical for hard science fiction. The second includes the introduction of assumptions in the fields of sociology, history, psychology, ethics, religion, and even philology. Thus, works of social fiction, utopia and dystopia are created. At the same time, several types of assumptions can be combined in one work at the same time.
As Maria Galina writes in her article, “It is traditionally believed that science fiction (SF) is literature, the plot of which revolves around some fantastic, but still scientific idea. It would be more accurate to say that in science fiction, the initially given picture of the world is logical and internally consistent. The plot in science fiction is usually built on one or more supposedly scientific assumptions (a time machine is possible, faster-than-light travel in space, “supra-space tunnels”, telepathy, etc.).”
The advent of fantasy was caused by the industrial revolution in the 19th century. Initially, science fiction was a genre of literature describing the achievements of science and technology, the prospects for their development, etc. The world of the future was often described - usually in the form of a utopia. A classic example of this type of fantasy is the works of Jules Verne.
Later, the development of technology began to be viewed in a negative light and led to the emergence of dystopia. And in the 1980s, its cyberpunk subgenre began to gain popularity. In it, high technologies coexist with total social control and the power of omnipotent corporations. In the works of this genre, the plot is based on the life of marginal fighters against the oligarchic regime, as a rule, in conditions of total cybernetization of society and social decline. Notable examples: Neuromancer by William Gibson.
In Russia, science fiction has become a popular and widely developed genre since the 20th century. Among the most famous authors are Ivan Efremov, the Strugatsky brothers, Alexander Belyaev, Kir Bulychev and others.
Even in pre-revolutionary Russia, individual science fiction works were written by such authors as Faddey Bulgarin, V. F. Odoevsky, Valery Bryusov, K. E. Tsiolkovsky several times expounded his views on science and technology in the form of fictional stories. But before the revolution, SF was not an established genre with its own constant writers and fans.
Science fiction was one of the most popular genres in the USSR. There were seminars for young science fiction writers and clubs for science fiction lovers. Almanacs were published with stories by novice authors, such as "The World of Adventures", fantastic stories were published in the magazine "Technology - Youth". At the same time, Soviet science fiction was subjected to severe censorship. She was required to maintain a positive outlook on the future, faith in communist development. Technical reliability was welcomed, mysticism and satire were condemned. In 1934, at the congress of the Union of Writers, Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak assigned the science fiction genre a place on a par with children's literature.
One of the first science fiction writers in the USSR was Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy ("Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin", "Aelita"). The film adaptation of Tolstoy's novel "Aelita" was the first Soviet science fiction film. In the 1920s - 30s, dozens of books by Alexander Belyaev were published (“Fight on the Air”, “Ariel”, “Amphibian Man”, “Professor Dowell's Head”, etc.), “alternative geographical” novels by V. A Obruchev (“Plutonia”, “Sannikov Land”), satirical-fiction stories by M. A. Bulgakov (“Heart of a Dog”, “Fatal Eggs”). They were distinguished by technical reliability and interest in science and technology. The role model of early Soviet science fiction writers was HG Wells, who himself was a socialist and visited the USSR several times.
In the 1950s, the rapid development of astronautics led to the flourishing of "short-range fiction" - solid science fiction about the exploration of the solar system, the exploits of astronauts, and the colonization of planets. The authors of this genre include G. Gurevich, A. Kazantsev, G. Martynov and others.
In the 1960s and later, Soviet science fiction began to move away from the rigid framework of science, despite the pressure of censorship. Many works of outstanding science fiction writers of the late Soviet period belong to social fiction. During this period, the books of the Strugatsky brothers, Kir Bulychev, Ivan Efremov appeared, which raise social and ethical issues, contain the views of the authors on humanity and the state. Often, fantastic works contained hidden satire. The same trend was reflected in science fiction, in particular, in the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (Solaris, Stalker). In parallel with this, a lot of adventure fiction for children was filmed in the late USSR (“Adventures of Electronics”, “Moscow-Cassiopeia”, “The Secret of the Third Planet”).
Science fiction has evolved and grown over its history, spawning new directions and absorbing elements from older genres such as utopia and alternate history.
The genre of the novel we are considering A.N. Tolstoy is "hard" science fiction, so we would like to dwell on it in more detail.
Hard science fiction is the oldest and original genre of science fiction. Its feature is the strict adherence to the scientific laws known at the time of writing the work. The works of hard science fiction are based on a natural scientific assumption: for example, a scientific discovery, an invention, a novelty in science or technology. Prior to other types of science fiction, it was simply called "science fiction". The term hard science fiction was first used in a literary review by P. Miller, published in February 1957 in Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
Some books by Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Robur the Conqueror, From the Earth to the Moon) and Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World, The Poisoned Belt, Maracot's Abyss), the works of HG Wells, Alexander Belyaev are called hard science fiction classics. A distinctive feature of these books was a detailed scientific and technical base, and the plot was based, as a rule, on a new discovery or invention. The authors of hard science fiction made a lot of "predictions", correctly guessing the further development of science and technology. So, Verne describes a helicopter in the novel "Robur the Conqueror", an airplane in "Lord of the World", space flight in "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon". Wells predicted video communications, central heating, laser, atomic weapons. Belyaev in the 1920s described a space station, radio-controlled equipment.
Hard science fiction was especially developed in the USSR, where other genres of science fiction were not welcomed by censors. Particularly widespread was the "fantasy of the near sight", telling about the events of the alleged near future - first of all, the colonization of the planets of the solar system. The most famous examples of science fiction "close range" include the books of G. Gurevich, G. Martynov, A. Kazantsev, the early books of the Strugatsky brothers ("Land of Crimson Clouds", "Interns"). Their books told about the heroic expeditions of astronauts to the Moon, Venus, Mars, to the asteroid belt. In these books, technical accuracy in the description of space flights was combined with romantic fiction about the structure of neighboring planets - then there was still hope to find life on them.
Although the main works of hard science fiction were written in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, many authors turned to this genre in the second half of the 20th century. For example, Arthur C. Clarke, in his Space Odyssey series of books, relied on a strictly scientific approach and described the development of astronautics, which is very close to the real one. In recent years, according to Eduard Gevorkyan, the genre is experiencing a "second wind". An example of this is astrophysicist Alastair Reynolds, who successfully combines hard science fiction with space opera and cyberpunk (for example, all his spaceships are sublight).
Other genres of science fiction are:
1) Social fiction - works in which a fantastic element is a different structure of society, completely different from the real one, or which is bringing it to extremes.
2) Chrono-fiction, temporal fantasy, or chrono-opera is a genre that tells about time travel. The key work of this subgenre is Wells' Time Machine. Although time travel has been written about before (for example, Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court), it was in The Time Machine that time travel was first intentional and scientifically based, and thus this plot device was introduced specifically into science fiction.
3) Alternative-historical - a genre in which the idea is developed that an event happened or did not happen in the past, and what could come out of it.
The first examples of this kind of assumption are found long before the advent of science fiction. Not all of them were works of art - sometimes they were serious works of historians. For example, the historian Titus Livius argued what would happen if Alexander the Great went to war against his native Rome. The famous historian Sir Arnold Toynbee also dedicated several of his essays to Macedonian: what would have happened if Alexander had lived longer, and vice versa, if he had not existed at all. Sir John Squire published a whole book of historical essays, under the general title "If it all went wrong."
4) The popularity of post-apocalyptic fiction is one of the reasons for the popularity of "stalker tourism".
Closely related genres, the action of works in which takes place during or shortly after a catastrophe of a planetary scale (collision with a meteorite, nuclear war, ecological catastrophe, epidemic).
The real scope of the post-apocalyptic received in the era of the Cold War, when a real threat of a nuclear holocaust loomed over humanity. During this period, such works as “The Song of Leibovitz” by V. Miller, “Dr. Bloodmoney" by F. Dick, "Dinner at the Palace of Perversions" by Tim Powers, "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatskys. Works in this genre continue to be created after the end of the Cold War (for example, "Metro 2033" by D. Glukhovsky).
5) Utopias and anti-utopias - genres dedicated to modeling the social structure of the future. In utopias, an ideal society is drawn, expressing the views of the author. In anti-utopias - the exact opposite of the ideal, a terrible, usually totalitarian, social structure.
6) "Space Opera" was dubbed an entertaining adventure SF published in popular pulp magazines in the 1920-50s in the USA. The name was given in 1940 by Wilson Tucker and, at first, was a contemptuous epithet (similar to "soap opera"). However, over time, the term took root and ceased to have a negative connotation.
The action of "space opera" takes place in space and on other planets, usually in a conventional "future". The plot is based on the adventures of the heroes, and the scale of the events taking place is limited only by the imagination of the authors. Initially, the works of this genre were purely entertaining, but later the techniques of the "space opera" were included in the arsenal of the authors of artistically significant science fiction.
7) Cyberpunk is a genre that considers the evolution of society under the influence of new technologies, a special place among which is given to telecommunications, computer, biological, and, last but not least, social. The background in the works of the genre is often cyborgs, androids, a supercomputer serving technocratic, corrupt and immoral organizations/regimes. The name "cyberpunk" was coined by writer Bruce Bethke, and literary critic Gardner Dozois picked it up and began to use it as the name of a new genre. He briefly and succinctly defined cyberpunk as "High tech, low life".
8) Steampunk is a genre created, on the one hand, in imitation of such classics of science fiction as Jules Verne and Albert Robida, and on the other, being a kind of post-cyberpunk. Sometimes dieselpunk is distinguished from it separately, corresponding to the science fiction of the first half of the 20th century. It can also be attributed to an alternative history, since the emphasis is on the more successful and perfect development of steam technology instead of the invention of the internal combustion engine.
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1. Time Machine
A novel by H.G. Wells, his first major science fiction work. Revised from the 1888 story "The Argonauts of Time" and published in 1895. The Time Machine introduced the idea of time travel and the time machine used for this into fiction, which were later used by many writers and created the direction of chrono-fiction. Moreover, as Yu. I. Kagarlitsky noted, both in scientific and world outlook Wells "... in a certain sense anticipated Einstein", who formulated the special theory of relativity ten years after the publication of the novel
The book describes the journey of the inventor of the time machine into the future. The plot is based on the fascinating adventures of the protagonist in a world that is 800 thousand years later, describing which the author proceeded from the negative trends in the development of contemporary capitalist society, which allowed many critics to call the book a warning novel. In addition, the novel for the first time describes many ideas related to time travel, which will not lose their attractiveness for readers and authors of new works for a long time.
2. Stranger in a foreign land
A fantastic philosophical novel by Robert Heinlein, awarded the Hugo Award in 1962. In the West, it has a "cult" status, being considered the most famous fantasy novel ever written. One of the few science fiction books included in the Library of Congress list of books that have shaped America.
The first expedition to Mars disappeared without a trace. The Third World War pushed back the second, successful expedition for a long twenty-five years. New researchers made contact with the original Martians and found out that not all of the first expedition died. And they bring to earth "Mowgli of the space age" - Michael Wallentine Smith, brought up by local intelligent beings. A man by birth and a Martian by upbringing, Michael bursts into the habitual everyday life of the Earth as a bright star. Endowed with the knowledge and skills of an ancient civilization, Smith becomes the messiah, the founder of a new religion and the first martyr for his faith...
3. Saga of the Lensmen
The Lensman saga is the story of a million-year confrontation between two ancient and powerful races: the evil and cruel Eddorians, who are trying to create a giant empire in space, and the inhabitants of Arrisia, the wise patrons of young civilizations emerging in the galaxy. In time, the Earth will enter this battle with its mighty space fleet and the Lensman Galactic Patrol.
The novel instantly became incredibly popular among fans of science fiction - it was one of the first major works, the authors of which ventured to take the action outside the solar system, and since then Smith, along with Edmond Hamilton, is considered the founder of the space opera genre.
4 Space Odyssey 2001
"2001: A Space Odyssey" is a literary script of the film of the same name (which, in turn, is based on Clark's early short story "The Sentinel"), which has become a classic of science fiction and is dedicated to human contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, reworked into a novel.
The film "2001: A Space Odyssey" is regularly included in the list of "greatest films in the history of cinema." It and its sequel 2010: Odyssey Two won the Hugo Awards in 1969 and 1985 for best fantasy films.
The influence of the film and book on modern culture is enormous, as is the number of their fans. And although the year 2001 has already arrived, "Space Odyssey" is unlikely to be forgotten. She continues to be our future.
5. Fahrenheit 451
The dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by the famous American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury has become, in a sense, an icon and a guiding star of the genre. It was created on a typewriter, which the writer rented from the public library and was printed for the first time in parts in the first issues of Playboy magazine.
The epigraph of the novel states that the ignition temperature of paper is 451 °F. The novel describes a society that relies on mass culture and consumerism, in which all books that make you think about life are to be burned; possession of books is a crime; and people who can think critically are outlawed. The protagonist of the novel, Guy Montag, works as a "fireman" (which in the book means burning books), confident that he is doing his job "for the benefit of mankind." But soon he becomes disillusioned with the ideals of the society of which he is a part, becomes an outcast and joins a small underground group of outcasts, whose supporters memorize the texts of books in order to save them for posterity.
6. "Foundation" (other names - Academy, Foundation, Foundation, Foundation)
A science fiction classic that tells of the collapse of a great galactic empire and its rebirth with the help of the "Seldon Plan".
In later novels, Asimov connected the world of the Foundation with his other cycles of works about the Empire and about positronic robots. The combined cycle, which is also called "Foundation", covers the history of mankind for over 20,000 years and includes 14 novels and dozens of short stories.
According to rumors, Asimov's novel made a huge impression on Osama bin Laden and even influenced his decision to create the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. Bin Laden likened himself to Gary Seldon, who rules the society of the future through pre-planned crises. Moreover, the Arabic translation of the novel's title is Al Qaida and thus may have given rise to the name of bin Laden's organization.
7. Massacre Number Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969)
Kurt Vonnegut's autobiographical novel about the bombing of Dresden during World War II.
The novel was dedicated to Mary O'Hare (and Dresden taxi driver Gerhard Müller) and was written in a "telegraphic-schizophrenic style", as Vonnegut himself puts it. Realism, grotesque, fantasy, elements of madness, cruel satire and bitter irony are closely intertwined in the book.
The protagonist is American soldier Billy Pilgrim, a ridiculous, timid, apathetic man. The book describes his adventures in the war and the bombing of Dresden, which left an indelible imprint on the Pilgrim's mental state, which has not been very stable since childhood. Vonnegut introduced a fantastic element into the story: the events of the protagonist's life are viewed through the prism of post-traumatic stress disorder, a syndrome characteristic of war veterans that crippled the hero's perception of reality. As a result, the comical "tale about aliens" grows into some coherent philosophical system.
Aliens from the planet Tralfamador take Billy Pilgrim to their planet and tell him that time does not really "flow", there is no gradual random transition from one event to another - the world and time are given once and for all, everything that has happened and will happen is known . About someone's death, the Trafalmadorians simply say: "Such things." It is impossible to say why or why something happened - such was the "structure of the moment".
8. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Legendary ironic sci-fi saga by Douglas Adams.
The novel tells about the adventures of the unfortunate Englishman Arthur Dent, who, with his friend Ford Prefect (a native of a small planet somewhere near Betelgeuse, working in the editorial office of the Hitchhiker's Guide), escapes death when the Earth is destroyed by a race of Vogon bureaucrats. Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford's relative and President of the Galaxy, accidentally saves Dent and Ford from death in outer space. Also aboard Zaphod's improbable-powered ship, the Heart of Gold, are the depressive robot Marvin, and Trillian, aka Tricia MacMillan, whom Arthur once met at a party. She is, as Arthur soon realizes, the only human left alive besides himself. The heroes search for the legendary planet Magrathea and try to find a question that fits the Ultimate Answer.
9. Dune (1965)
Frank Herbert's first novel in the Dune Chronicles saga about the sandy planet Arrakis. It was this book that made him famous. Dune won Hugo and Nebula Awards. Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels of the 20th century.
This book raises many political, environmental and other important issues. The writer managed to create a full-fledged fantasy world and cross it with a philosophical novel. In this world, the most important substance is spice, which is needed for interstellar flights and on which the existence of civilization depends. This substance is found only on one planet called Arrakis. Arrakis is a desert inhabited by huge sandworms. The Fremen tribes live on this planet, in whose life water is the main and unconditional value.
10 Neuromancer (1984)
A novel by William Gibson, a cyberpunk canon that won the Nebula (1984), the Hugo (1985) and the Philip Dick Prize. This is the first Gibson novel to open the Cyberspace trilogy. Published in 1984.
This work discusses such concepts as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, transnational corporations, cyberspace (computer network, matrix) long before these concepts became popular in popular culture.
11. Do androids dream of electric sheep? (1968)
Science fiction novel by Philip Dick written in 1968. Tells the story of "bounty hunter" Rick Deckard, who goes after androids - creatures almost indistinguishable from humans, outlawed on Earth. The action takes place in the radiation-poisoned and partially abandoned San Francisco of the future.
Along with The Man in the High Castle, this novel is Dick's most famous work. This is one of the classic science fiction works that explores the ethical issues of creating androids - artificial people.
In 1982, based on the novel, Ridley Scott directed the film Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford. The script, which Hampton Fancher and David Peoples created, is quite different from the book.
12. Gate (1977)
A 1977 science fiction novel by American writer Frederick Paul that won all three major American genre awards - Nebula (1977), Hugo (1978), and Locus (1978). The novel opens the Heechee cycle.
Near Venus, people have found an artificial asteroid built by an alien race called the Heechee. Spaceships were found on the asteroid. People figured out how to navigate the ships, but they couldn't change their destination. Many volunteers have tested them. Some returned with discoveries that made them rich. But most returned with nothing. And some didn't come back at all. The flight on the ship was like Russian roulette - you could get lucky, but you could also die.
The main character is a lucky explorer. He is tormented by remorse - from the crew, which had good luck, only he returned. And he is trying to figure out his life, confessing to a robot psychoanalyst.
13 Ender's Game (1985)
Ender's Game won the Nebula and Hugo Awards for Best Novel in 1985 and 1986, some of the most prestigious science fiction literary awards.
The novel is set in 2135. Mankind survived two invasions of the alien race "buggers" (English buggers), only miraculously survived, and is preparing for the next invasion. To search for pilots and commanders who can bring victory to the Earth, a military school is being created, to which the most talented children are sent from an early age. Among these children is the title character of the book - Andrew (Ender) Wiggin, the future commander of the International Earth Fleet and the only hope of mankind for salvation.
14. 1984 (1949)
In 2009, The Times listed 1984 as one of the 60 best books published in the last 60 years, and Newsweek ranked the novel second in its list of the 100 best books of all time.
The title of the novel, its terminology, and even the name of the author later became a household name and are used to denote a social structure reminiscent of the totalitarian regime described in 1984. Repeatedly became both a victim of censorship in the socialist countries, and the object of criticism from leftist circles in the West.
George Orwell's fantasy novel 1984 tells the story of Winston Smith, who is rewriting history based on partisan interests during the reign of a totalitarian junta. Smith's rebellion leads to dire consequences. As the author predicts, nothing can be worse than total lack of freedom...
This work, which was banned in our country until 1991, is called a dystopia of the twentieth century. (hatred, fears, hunger and blood), a warning against totalitarianism. The novel was boycotted in the West due to the similarity between the ruler of the country, Big Brother, and the real heads of state.
15. Brave New World (1932)
One of the most famous dystopian novels. A sort of antipode of Orwell's 1984. No torture chambers - everyone is happy and satisfied. The pages of the novel describe the world of the distant future (the action takes place in London), in which people are grown in special embryorium plants and in advance (by influencing the embryo at various stages of development) are divided into five castes of different mental and physical abilities, which perform different work. From "alphas" - strong and beautiful mental workers to "epsilons" - semi-cretins who can only do the simplest physical work. Babies are brought up differently depending on the caste. Thus, with the help of hypnopedia, each caste is brought up with reverence for the higher caste and contempt for the lower castes. Costumes for each caste of a certain color. For example, alphas go in gray, gammas go in green, deltas go in khaki, epsilons go in black.
In this society, there is no place for feelings, and it is considered indecent not to have regular sexual intercourse with different partners (the main slogan is “everyone belongs to everyone else”), but pregnancy is considered a terrible shame. People in this "World State" do not age, although the average life expectancy is 60 years. Regularly, in order to always have a good mood, they use the drug "somu", which has no negative effects ("soma grams - and no dramas"). God in this world is Henry Ford, they call him “Our Lord Ford”, and the chronology comes from the creation of the Ford T car, that is, from 1908 AD. e. (in the novel, the action takes place in the year 632 of the "era of stability", that is, in 2540 AD).
The writer shows the life of people in this world. The main characters are people who cannot fit into society - Bernard Marx (a representative of the upper class, alpha plus), his friend, a successful dissident Helmholtz and a savage John from an Indian reservation, who all his life dreamed of getting into a beautiful world where everyone is happy.
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Greek phantastike - the art of imagining) - a form of reflection of the world, in which, based on real ideas, a logically incompatible picture of the Universe is created. Common in mythology, folklore, art, social utopia. In the XIX - XX centuries. science fiction develops.
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FANTASTIC
Greek phantastike - the art of imagining), a kind of fiction where fiction gets the most freedom: the boundaries of fantasy stretch from depicting strange, unusual, fictional phenomena to creating your own world with special patterns and possibilities. Fiction has a special type of figurativeness, which is characterized by a violation of real connections and proportions: for example, the cut off nose of Major Kovalev in N.V. Gogol's story "The Nose" itself moves around St. place. At the same time, the fantastic picture of the world is not pure fiction: the events of reality are transformed and raised to the symbolic level in it. Fiction in a grotesque, exaggerated, transformed form reveals to the reader the problems of reality and reflects on their solution. Fantastic imagery is inherent in a fairy tale, epic, allegory, legend, utopia, satire. A special subspecies of science fiction is science fiction, in which imagery is created by depicting fictional or real scientific and technological achievements of a person. The artistic originality of science fiction lies in the opposition of the fantastic and real world, therefore, each work of science fiction exists, as it were, in two planes: the world created by the author's imagination somehow correlates with reality. The real world is either taken out of the text ("Gulliver's Travels" by J. Swift), or is present in it (in "Faust" by I.V. Goethe, the events in which Faust and Mephistopheles participate are contrasted with the lives of other citizens).
Initially, fantasy was associated with the embodiment of mythological images in literature: for example, ancient fantasy with the participation of the gods seemed to be quite reliable (Iliad, Odyssey by Homer, Works and Days by Hesiod, plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides and etc.). Homer's Odyssey, which describes many amazing and fantastic adventures of Odysseus, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, stories of the transformation of living beings into trees, stones, people into animals, etc., can be considered examples of ancient fiction. In the works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, this trend continued: in the knightly epic (from Beowulf, written in the 8th century, to the novels of Chrétien de Troyes in the 14th century), images of dragons and wizards, fairies, trolls, elves and other fantastic creatures appeared. A separate tradition in the Middle Ages is Christian fiction, which describes the miracles of saints, visions, etc. Christianity recognizes evidence of this kind as authentic, but this does not prevent them from remaining part of the fantastic literary tradition, since extraordinary phenomena are described that are not typical of the usual course of events. The richest fantasy is also represented in Eastern culture: the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, Indian and Chinese literature. In the Renaissance, the fantasy of chivalric novels is parodied in Gargantua and Pantagruel by F. Rabelais and in Don Quixote by M. Cervantes: Rabelais presents a fantastic epic that rethinks the traditional clichés of science fiction, while Cervantes parodies the passion for fantasy, his hero sees fantastic creatures everywhere, which does not exist, gets into ridiculous situations because of this. Christian fiction in the Renaissance is expressed in the poems of J. Milton "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained".
The literature of the Enlightenment and classicism is alien to fantasy, and its images are used only to give an exotic flavor to the action. A new flowering of fantasy comes in the 19th century, in the era of romanticism. Genres based entirely on fantasy appear, such as the gothic novel. The forms of fantasy in German romanticism are varied; in particular, E. T. A. Hoffman wrote fairy tales (“Lord of the Fleas”, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”), Gothic novels (“Devil's Elixir”), enchanting phantasmagoria (“Princess Brambilla”), realistic stories with fantastic background (“ The Golden Pot", "The Choice of the Bride"), philosophical fairy tales-parables ("Little Tsakhes", "The Sandman"). Fiction in the literature of realism is also common: "The Queen of Spades" by A. S. Pushkin, "Shtoss" by M. Yu. Lermontov, "Mirgorod" and "Petersburg Tales" by N. V. Gogol, "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by F. M. Dostoevsky etc. There is a problem of combining fantasy with the real world in the text, often the introduction of fantastic images requires motivation (Tatyana's dream in "Eugene Onegin"). However, the assertion of realism relegated fantasy to the periphery of literature. They turned to her to give a symbolic character to the images (“Portrait of Dorian Gray” by O. Wilde, “Shagreen Skin” by O. de Balzac). The gothic tradition of fiction is being developed by E. Poe, whose stories feature unmotivated fantastic images and collisions. The synthesis of various types of fantasy is represented by M. A. Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.
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