Science Fiction Genre Analysis

We read the story "Piper in the Woods" by Philip K. Dick, who is also the author of "The Adjustment Team" (we read this one last week). That story was recently made into a movie starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt called "The Adjustment Bureau." 


Read Veronica's insightful comments about the story Piper in the Woods, the genre of sci-fi, and the societal ramifications in the story.

Veronica

April 26, 2012

Sci-Fi Genre Paragraph

1.     Piper in the Woods is a great example of Science Fiction. It meets all the criteria. It has technology and science from the future, it involves partially true, partially fictitious laws or theories of science, it is also set in the future in space on a different. People lived on asteroid Y-3, meaning that they have the technology to breathe, and the technology to get there. It is partially true, because one day we might live in space, but is also fictitious because forests probably aren’t on asteroids, and we probably can’t change into plants. Piper in the Woods was set in space in the future on an asteroid and a planet.

In reply to the question: Is this story commenting on our society or the roles people are required to play?

2. I think he is commenting on society, but I also think he is wrong in some ways. If half of American adults didn’t work and just sat in the sun all day, our society would crumble a little. If 1 million did that, then we could still keep on going on along with our own business and be fine. I think he was angry, because one tenth of the people were sitting out in the sun all day, and the society was starting to fall. If the president didn’t do anything, our society would fall. The author was saying that if no-body, worked or played their parts in American society, there would be no more America or society.