ENG237H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Nuclear Winter, Nuclear Family
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In order to be correct, he had to make the universe more complicated than it is: epicycles, his thinking is not logical. It breaks occam"s razor: he reacts in emotional ways. Ray bradbury: he is fast and loose with the science, pessimistic about humanity and technology, suspicious of people, his story is a part of a collection that was later adapted into a tv series known as. It was inspired by the poem there will come soft rains". Carter - a book about a man who is teleported to mars and encounters a civilization there. The new wave of pessimistic science fiction was due to the atomic bomb - people were afraid. It was all destroyed - this little place that probably isn"t even on the map: it tells us that this can happen anywhere; in any ordinary place and no one is safe.
