Sci-Fi and Social Commentary

Needing someone or financial or emotional support.

• Reliant
• Independent
• Self-sufficient
• Dependent

Achieving a goal with the least amount of effort.

• laziness
• efficient

• inefficiency
• procrastination

The ability to understand and share the feelings of others.

• indifference
• sympathy
• empathy
• apathy

Acting without thinking through the consequences.

• careful
• rational
• thoughtful
• impulsive

Done naturally, without the need for great thought or prompting.

• Impulsively

• automatically
• instinctively
• spontaneously

The state of not having connections to others

• loneliness
• seclusion
• isolation
• detachment

Odd, strange

• peculiar
• bizarre
• normal
• weird

To treat someone badly because of their beliefs or race

• racism
• oppression
• prejudice
• Persecute

A universal message that can apply to real life or other stories

• character
• plot
• moral
• theme

A genre of literature that includes the following conventions: scientific advancements, time travel, space travel and colonization, aliens, and fictional or future worlds.

• science fiction
• romance
• mystery
• fantasy