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​SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

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Science fiction and fantasy books are often dismissed as unrealistic — but going beyond the real is exactly where their power comes from. They make the known world strange again, giving readers distance and perspective. They're rife with social commentary.
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"The best way to start a really knock-down, drag-out fight is to ask someone to define the difference between science fiction and fantasy. I feel like they're two shades on the same continuum. They're working with material that's maybe not completely, 100 percent recognizably realistic, but in ways that can short-circuit our assumptions about the world around us and tell stories that will give us a different perspective on things." ~Ann Leckie

Honors Projects for Quarter One


Science Fiction

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Why Everyone should read scifi
SciFi: Assessing the future
Importance of SciFi to Entrepreneurship
How SciFi is becoming less male
SciFi would be unrecognizable without women
Brief History of the Pulps
How SciFi is Shaping your future
Inventors need to read more scifi
Museum of Science Fiction
Four THings Good SciFi Needs
SciFi Characteristics
5 Key Elements in Writing SciFi
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A Canticle for Leibowitz Text

Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
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NYT Book Review
Thoughts and Spoilers
BioSciFi in Childhood's End
60 Years to bring it to the screen
Critical Analysis
a prescription to psychological maturity
Inspired by Childhood's End
Death of Science in Childhood's End
Similarities in the book to today
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Formative Assessments
Chaps 13-14 Form Assess
Chaps 15-16 Form Assess
Chaps 17-18 Form Assess

1984, by George Orwell
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1 9 8 4 Text
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1 9 8 4 Today
Why 1 9 8 4 Matters Now
Why 1 9 8 4 is a must read today
Trading in Privacy for Facebook Likes
Today's technology and 1984
Orwell's road to dystopia
The Masterpiece that killed orwell
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Fantasy

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Definition of and types of fantasy
Things to consider in writing fantasy
Writing Fantasy
The Triumph of Fantasy Fiction
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Why are people such snobs about fantasy?
confronting reality through fantasy
The Reality Behind Fantasy Fiction NPR
Maleficent: What do Fairytales really mean?
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The PSychology of Fantasy
The Real Purpose of Fantasy
The Irresistible Psychology of Fairy Tales
The Psychology of Fairytales
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Difference between scifi and fantasy
What is the difference between scifi and fantasy
Is it SciFi or Science Fantasy?
How is fantasy different from fairy tale?
magical realism, science fiction, fantasy

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
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"Imagination, not intelligence, made us human."
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO MAKE THEM HUMAN.  Death from Hogfather
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How Imagination makes us human
The Human Imagination
Why Did we evolve imaginations?
Imagination separates us from the other animals
Imagination: Humanity's Superpower
How Creativity fuels evolution
did evolution of imagination lead to a belief in god?
Why Hogfather is the best christmas story
Human Creativity explained
How Imagination Shapes reality
Hogfather book review
Hogfather Trivia
Susan Sto Helit
Terry Pratchett as Philosopher
A psychological analysis of discworld
personifications of death: discworld vs. sandman
an argument for discworld as highest form of literature
Terry PRatchett facing reality through fantasy
fantastic folklore and satire in discworld
list of discworld novels

Wicked
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
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Maguire reinvents fantasy fiction
Full Text of the Original Book by L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
oz and effect: baum's impact
The man who made oz
Psychology behind the most popular film of all
Something wicked this way comes...
Wicked Text
Wicked: Responding to fairyland
GLinda is the bad one
why wicked is important
Book vs. Musical
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Examining the Political in Wicked
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