Writing Science Fiction

Science Fiction and Dystopian Literature

Use with pages 6 & 7 in the student workbook

Science Fiction

• A genre based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes.

• frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets

Common features/elements

• Science/Technology

• Non-human characters

• Space or Time Travel

• Allegory

• Dystopia

• Mind control

Multiple Select

Which of these books and authors fit in the science fiction genre?

Utopia

An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect

Dystopia

An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.

Multiple Select

Which of these books and authors fit dystopian literature?

Why write dystopian literature?

• Explores social and political structures

• Could be a warning

• A way to write social commentary

• A way to come to terms with being mortal and deeply flawed

After reading page 7 in your student workbook - answer the following questions

Open Ended

Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in the early 1950s. How was technology different then?

Open Ended

Predict what might be the main topics/themes of this book.