Science Fiction
The science fiction writer who said, “I don’t try to predict the future – I try to prevent it.”
Who is Ray Bradbury?
He falls asleep in the mountains after his wife nags him about money and awakens 20 years later.
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
In the novel The Time Machine, the protagonist travels to find two types of inhabitants this far into the future.
What is 800,000 years?
Protagonist Ellie from Carl Sagan's novel records 18 hours of silence while visiting planet Vega. She is told that only this much time elapsed on earth.
What is 20 seconds?
The title of the Carl Sagan novel that shows the protagonist Ellie using a wormhole to travel to the planet Vega.
What is Contact?
Writer Ben Bova indicates that science fiction writers are “not in the business of predicting . . .They try to show the many possible ______ that lie open to us.”
What are futures?
In Washington Irving's tale, a man slept through this war.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
This is the name of the two future inhabitants in The Time Machine.
What are the Eloi and the Morlocks?
This is what the protagonist Ulysses of The Planet of the Apes discovers when he travels back to a futuristic earth.
What is the earth is being ruled by intelligent apes?
On the planet Vega, Ellie is greeted by this person.
Who is an alien or her father?
This is the key element that makes science fiction realistic.
What is human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution?
In Mark Twain's time travel story, a Connecticut Yankee travels here after getting knocked unconscious.
What is Camelot or King Arthur's Court?
The term for when time travel affects any minor incident in the past and causes a ripple effect that changes the future in large ways.
What is the Butterfly Effect?
While Ulysses of The Planet of the Apes ages 4 years, this is the amount of time that has passed on earth.
What is 700 years?
This is the name of Dr. Who's time travel device.
What is the TARDIS?
These are the imaginary or futuristic worlds in which the desire for perfection produces wretched consequences sometimes portrayed in science fiction.
What are dystopias?
Mark Twain's character discusses this item with a stranger.
What is armor with a bullet hole in it?
The time travel devices used in Back to the Future AND Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
What is a Delorian and a phone booth?
Extreme time dilation occurs when this happens.
What is traveling near the speed of light?
Dr. Who time travels for this reason.
What is to help others avoid crises?
Science fiction utilizes scientific credibility in order to ease this on the part of its readers.
What is willing suspension of disbelief?
This individual helped the Connecticut Yankee return to his own time.
Who is Merlin?
This is the problem with wormholes being used as a time travel device.
What is they are unstable and will collapse on themselves before anyone can exit them?
This is the person who developed the time dilation formula.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This is the name of the power source for Dr. Who's time travel device.
What is the Eye of Harmony?