Tanner Storck

 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

               When I first saw that “The Martian” was on the reading list for this week I was surprised. Firstly, because I didn’t know it was a book. I had seen the movie around the time it came out and really enjoyed. I think what I enjoyed most about the film was that it is a sci-fi film but it approaches it in a scientific way. Many sci-fi films and stories lean more towards the fiction and fantasy. Even though “The Martian” is about an astronaut on Mars, it feels like it is telling a true story because things are mostly told through a way we naturally understand them in our world.             Technology is very present in this book. Although it may seem like there should be robots and all sorts of high-tech things in this story, there really isn’t (and it isn’t necessary). With any space station, there has to be technology and a lot of present day technology used in space isn’t common to the most people. The technology in this book is complex in some ways but it is also realist