Please describe in detail what you have done for your group's SF Slide Show Update Project so far. First, identify which job you have done (reading stories or novels, researching authors or trends, reviewing films). Then, tell specifically what you read or watched or researched (titles, names, ideas). Furthermore, convey some of the interesting information you found. Show that you have actually gained some knowledge about SF from your work. Please post your comment no later than midnight, Wednesday, September 26, 2007.
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Author research
Roger Zelazny
He has a 16 book series called the Amber Novels. He has won six Hugo awards out of 14 nominations.
Books:
Ender's Shadow -Orson Scott Card
Otherland Series -Tad Williams
Darwin -Greg Bear
-Not many other series have stuck out so far.
I have watched a few movies and have found several authors including...
Movies:
-Predator= Alien comes to earth hunts humans as trophies. Starring the govenator of California, and directed by Jhon McTiernan.
-Edward Scissorhands... One of Jhonny Depp's earlier films which won a Hugo for best dramatic presentation.
-Aliens... the sequel to the highly successful Alien with leading actress Sigourney Weaver who was nominated for best leading actress in the academy awards. It was awarded best special effects at the academy awards, it also won best sound effect editing, the Saturn award for best SF film, the Hugo for best presentation, and many others.
-Alien 3... An alien stalks prisoners on a "Prison Planet," and Sigourney Weaver must fight the alien and something inside her.
Authors include...
Orson Scott Card- Known for the Ender Series (1985), "Alinman", and the "Worthing Chronicles"
William Gibson- "Mona Lisa Overdrive"
Connie Willis- "Fire Watch" and "Doomsday Book." and many others.
Movie and Book research
I have watched "The Fly", "Star Wars, The Phantom Menace", and "Aliens 2." I think that these 3 movies that i have watched so far are great examples of stereotypical science fiction plots. Like strange aliens,space ships, mutant bugs, all of which are great material
I have began reading "Dune" by Frank Herbert and i plan to begin another book soon.
Post by Evan Salvador
This is actually tyler im using my bros cus i didnt feel like makin a new account so ya
I did movie reviews tho:
I,Robot- Will Smith is in a future where robots run almost everything and he doesn't trust them at all and has a good reason why. The robots try to take over and Will helps to stop them.
The Island- Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor live in a futuristic society where everyone does the same thing day after day until one man questions the system.
Movie Reviews, And research.
I have watched a few movies, such as The Terminator, which was a great film. I have also watched both Underworlds even though they are not in our time period.
So far I have watched the Terminator and done some research on Connie Willis and his novel the Doomsday book. He won a lot of Hugo's and a Nebula along with a John Campbell.
i have watched 4 movies
The matrix- futuristic world that has been taken over by robots that humans create very dark view on what the world has become in a few hundred years
The matrix reloaded- sequl to the 1999 hit much of the same plot features while the story moves further very unique brand of a sicence fiction story
Men in Black- science fiction comedy about a secert society of people who protect earth from aliens that both live here and come from other planets
V for vendetta- story of futruistic world in europe about a man who tries to overthrow a corupt government
D.Tetley
Job: Pretty much whatever.
Books:
-Read Dune (Although Zach's got that part covered)
-Foundation's Edge (Asimov)
-The Robots of Dawn (Asimov)
Movies:
-Star Wars: A New Hope, Empire, RoTJ
-Close Encounters of the Third Kind
-Alien
-Moonraker
-E.T.
-The Thing
-Ghostbusters
-Terminator
Ideas:
-Random stuff for the slide show and whatnot.
Music:
-Got a playlist up of good, science-fictiony songs and such we can use.
Author Research
Issac Asimov
He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. Made several hundred articles and more than 500 books. He was the most famous, honored, and had the most widely read books.
Novel reading
I read the novel dune by Frank Herbert written in 1984.
This is a book about the future in which there are no computers of robots and everything is based on the spice. It also has a medieval type hierarchy. It is an extrapolation on our dependence on machines and how eventually customs and loyalty will be the rulers of everything.
Books
Science Fiction Of the 20th Century.
History and stories.
I am trying to find some other books to read at the moment. But so far so good.
I have watched movies and analized them.
The movies i have done are Ghostbusters, Back To The Future, Predator, and Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
These movies have become very popular since their release and can still be seen on T.V.
So far I have researched Two authors for our time period:
1. Phyllis Eisenstein- published six novels and over three dozen short stories. Her stories have been nominated for the Hugo Award as well as the Nebula Award.
2. Joannna Russ- Feminist, best known for her novel The Female Man. In 1983 she won the Hugo Award for her novella "Souls"
I watched and analyzed two movies so far.
Robo Cop and Back to the Future.
Movie Research:
Reviewed three films
The Last Starfighter
-1984
-Directed by Nick Castle, starring Lance Guest
-About a boy who's video game becomes a dangerous reality
Mad Max
-1979
-Directed by George Miller, starring Mel Gibson
-About a cop who gets mad
Moonraker
-1979
-Directed by Lewis Gilbert. starring Roger Moore
-James Bond 007 sets out to stop a mad man on the moon from wiping out humanity to make the perfect race.
oh yeah, and most of the movies dave has seen, they are to come
oh and I am looking in on a book called Nothing Lasts Forever, written by Rodereck Thorp in 1979. Die Hard was an adaption of this novel
I have seen all 3 original Star Wars, and also found a short film, made in 1977, of what they thought the internet would look like in 1990.
So far I have looked up writers or authors of Science Fiction novels such as Harlan Ellison and Dan Simmons to get an understanding of how they get their ideas and motivation to come up with the some, far fetched, pieces they publish.
For my time period i have watched a few series of classic movies. The original star wars, tremors, and back to the future. I have read the book Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen, which features the main character getting sucked into a bizarre seperate dimension. He has to rely on his basic instincts to to survive in a world of he knows nothing of and the natives he's never met. I plan on researching some more authors and see if i can find a book that i find interesting.
Tim S said...
For my science fiction slide show project I have done a few different things. First I looked for short stories in the time period and was able to find two different interesting stories. Also while flipping through channels on the tube and came across a re-run of Star Trek that will be a good source.
(Posted for Tim by Mr. Sale)
Sheldon S said...
Sorry its late, but i figured I should send you one anyway just so you know. My task is to do the assembly of the project. But for now i have been doing research on video games, specifically on halo three and its impact on science fiction. I also watched minority report.
(Posted for Sheldon by Mr. Sale)
The book I am reading for my group is called "The Gateway". This book is about being able to buy a trip on an alien space ship and look for lost treasures.
Movie research
"Deep rising"- people go on a cruise ship, alien sea octopus demon begins destroying the ship, few live, monster and boat are destroyed.
"The Thing"- Scientists in the arctic find a space craft, some start to get infected by the aliens, majoraty of scientists turn into alien creatures and 2 scientists dont get infected and have to kill the others. Directed by John Carpenter.
"Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"- A british man descovers his best friend is an alien and that the earth will be destroyed in minutes. His alien friend takes him off planet to another ship where he along with others travel the galaxy and try to find out the meaning of life. Then descovers that a new earth is being built.
I plan to watch more Sci-Fi movies and i will hope to tie them all together somehow.
Better late than never!
dan Johnson:
I got some info from the internet about the autor that I was assigned, Michael Crichton. I plan on reading one of his novels and write a short summary on the book. Alson, I think John and I are planning on watching either Jurassic Park, or Robo Cop.
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