Science Fiction is all about humans’ interactions and reactions with technology of the
future. Through our own society we use these strange situations to encompass the unknown and
face the bizarre. The future of humanity is uncertain and can be very scary as to what will happen
next. Many wonder what will be the next big event? The novels that will be discussed are A
Scanner Darkly, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. These books
identify different aspects of mans interactions with technology. A Scanner Darkly follows Bob
Arctors decent into the “rabbit hole” as he becomes more and more addicted to a future drug.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is comedic look at how a normal guy would react to a
cataclysmic …show more content…
He proposed the use of geostationary orbits for satellites to communicate with Earth. An
avid scuba diver for most of his life, he moved to and spent the rest of his life in Sri Lanka, where
he continued to write.
After Philip K Dick’s fourth marriage broke up he fell to into an addiction of drugs that
influenced his works to come especially A Scanner Darkly. The story of Bob Arctor is in many
ways based on a low point in Dick’s life where he was allowing other junkies to live with him.
Douglas Adams had already written for television and wanted to do something new in radio
having an initial idea for a story he wanted he later revised the story into one of a dispossessed
earthling, what would later become Hitchhiker’s. Clarke was always an avid space enthusiast who
created works that encompassed his visions of the future. After World War Two Clarke went to
college and graduated with a degree in math and physics which gave him a better understanding
of the cosmic interactions.
Philip K. Dick wrote A Scanner Darkly during some of the most trying times of his life as
he spent more time on this book than many of his other works. After falling on hard times Dick
let his home become a place for addicts and was eventually burgled. Later in his life Dick …show more content…
The element of time in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is seen as very rapid in the
beginning of the story as very quickly Arthur Dent goes from a normal man to a homeless, planet-
less human that is then pushed out a airlock. To later on in the story time is seen as a very large
with planets that function as computers that take millions of years to compute an answer to the
question and then another several million years to find the question to the answer. The effect of
having such large shifts in the use of time acts as a way for the audience to understand the way
Dent would be experience the events that transpire during this book. As a way to contrast the
downplay of technology of this new Milky Way with the use of such large amounts of time
causes the audience to say “well if the computer bit is possible then the rest seems only natural in
comparison.”
Time is a device in 2001 a way to show what Clarke wants the audience to see when he
says. Starting by changing our understanding of what the dawn of man must have been like,
Clarke then skips over much of mankind’s existence to allow readers to believe that
future. Through our own society we use these strange situations to encompass the unknown and
face the bizarre. The future of humanity is uncertain and can be very scary as to what will happen
next. Many wonder what will be the next big event? The novels that will be discussed are A
Scanner Darkly, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. These books
identify different aspects of mans interactions with technology. A Scanner Darkly follows Bob
Arctors decent into the “rabbit hole” as he becomes more and more addicted to a future drug.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is comedic look at how a normal guy would react to a
cataclysmic …show more content…
He proposed the use of geostationary orbits for satellites to communicate with Earth. An
avid scuba diver for most of his life, he moved to and spent the rest of his life in Sri Lanka, where
he continued to write.
After Philip K Dick’s fourth marriage broke up he fell to into an addiction of drugs that
influenced his works to come especially A Scanner Darkly. The story of Bob Arctor is in many
ways based on a low point in Dick’s life where he was allowing other junkies to live with him.
Douglas Adams had already written for television and wanted to do something new in radio
having an initial idea for a story he wanted he later revised the story into one of a dispossessed
earthling, what would later become Hitchhiker’s. Clarke was always an avid space enthusiast who
created works that encompassed his visions of the future. After World War Two Clarke went to
college and graduated with a degree in math and physics which gave him a better understanding
of the cosmic interactions.
Philip K. Dick wrote A Scanner Darkly during some of the most trying times of his life as
he spent more time on this book than many of his other works. After falling on hard times Dick
let his home become a place for addicts and was eventually burgled. Later in his life Dick …show more content…
The element of time in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is seen as very rapid in the
beginning of the story as very quickly Arthur Dent goes from a normal man to a homeless, planet-
less human that is then pushed out a airlock. To later on in the story time is seen as a very large
with planets that function as computers that take millions of years to compute an answer to the
question and then another several million years to find the question to the answer. The effect of
having such large shifts in the use of time acts as a way for the audience to understand the way
Dent would be experience the events that transpire during this book. As a way to contrast the
downplay of technology of this new Milky Way with the use of such large amounts of time
causes the audience to say “well if the computer bit is possible then the rest seems only natural in
comparison.”
Time is a device in 2001 a way to show what Clarke wants the audience to see when he
says. Starting by changing our understanding of what the dawn of man must have been like,
Clarke then skips over much of mankind’s existence to allow readers to believe that