Tanner Storck

It is ten years from now, the holiday season of 2030.  You are thinking about a present you might be getting for the holidays.  What is it?  Talk about how you did your holiday shopping? What is your job and how are you doing it?  What is your living situation and what are the major issues of the day?  Please make these questions relevant to any appropriate holidays you celebrate.                   It’s December 15 th , 2030 and I have a busy week of work. My cousin, Grant and I are working on completing our first every Christmas film. My mom and grandmother love the Hallmark channel, so in many ways it is for them.                 By December 20 th we finish the film and prepare to release it on Christmas day. I’ve known for months what I want for Christmas. Samsung has developed a cellphone that has as many features as a film camera including attachable lenses. I’ve been wanting this phone ever since I heard it was announced and I asked my parents to get it for me.            

               This book is basically the definition of sci-fi. It takes every element that you have read in a sci-fi book or seen in a sci-fi film. There are aliens, robots, space travel, evil aliens. The list goes on but it adds a twist to it. The book combines satire and sci-fi.                 Satires have become one of my favorite genres. I don’t know if there are too many satires that are made by people that don’t like the things they are making fun of. The creator of this story certainly likes sci-fi stories. You can’t really make a satire without knowing a lot about the subject you are making fun of.                 This story sounds so ridiculous but it really isn’t that far off from many sci-fi stories. Every one of these things can probably be found in some shape or form in another work. The great thing about this story is that it takes cliché sci-fi story tropes and turns them into something different.                 The story isn’t serious and never tries to take it

 This short story begins by talking about the beginning of the universe. It does not really feel like a story at the start. The story's opening reads like a history or science textbook. The author then goes on to describe various characters that have names that are unpronounceable. These characters are the few beings that existed in this stories version of the beginning of the universe. These characters are described like every day people. As I read on in the story, it seemed that the character names were based on different elements of the periodic table. This is quite clever because these characters make up the universe just like the elements on the periodic table make up the universe.

  1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? My immediate reaction to this short story is that it is very strange. It is definitely interesting. Strangely, I have always wondered what it would be like if a male became pregnant and gave birth. The author creates a very original and bizarre concept that is weird but very intriguing. 2. What connections did you make with the story? Discuss what elements of the story with which you were able to connect? I most connected to the idea of two very different things developing a relationship. In the story, it was two different species of living things from different worlds. I think this idea can be applied to human relationships. Sometimes the best friendships and relationships are with people that we would never expect to be friends with. This story takes a very odd approach to this idea. Things get extreme quickly but when you put this idea in simpler terms, it can be connected to regular human relationships. 3. What changes would you

          I’ll start by saying this book is complicated. It takes place in the near future for us now but when the book was released it was about a fifty-year jump into the future. Compared to the world we live in now; this book is vastly different. I always find it interesting when a book or film is talking about the future in such incredible and bizarre ways. Films like Blade Runner and Back to the Future Part ll have already passed our present day. The technology in these films is not much like our world. Some things are just slightly altered but many things are completely different. I think part of the uniqueness of the genre is that it is very different to a world we will ever see or know.           The characters in this book each have a uniqueness to them. They all have their flaws, but they also each have their own special skills. The book takes the reader on one long journey while including several smaller adventures throughout.           This book came out around the ti

               Where to begin? Joanna, Janet, Jael, or Jeannine’s world? I guess they are all the same really. Well, maybe. This book makes me wonder if I have some different versions of myself out there somewhere. Are they living a better life or a worse one? Maybe they are just living a different life of the same quality as mine? It is interesting to think about but also a bit terrifying.             This book is quite original. It is kind of hard to describe because there are so many layers to it (really just four layers). It reminds me of the atmosphere presented in Fahrenheit 451 . Each world is a sort of alternate reality although similar in many ways to the world we live in. Some of the dimensions seem very extreme but when you think about it they are not that far off. I think the best science fiction stories take the real world and turn it into something that seems very radical.             I love how the four main characters are basically the same person from different dim