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Monday Test Review 5/20/19
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The Martian Chronicles
is the transitional work that says goodbye to this era:
The Pulp Era
The Silver Era
The Silent Era
The Golden Age
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Type of science fiction that is based on plausible principles of science and physics.
Hard SF
Fantasy SF
Technosphere SF
Utopian SF
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SF stories that flip the timeline or outcome of human events are examples of:
Dystopian SF
Alien Invasion SF
Space Western SF
Alternate History SF
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Author of the seminal work,
Frankenstein
Jules Verne
H.G. Wells
Lord Byron
Mary Shelley
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The Science Fiction award equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize:
Hugo
National Book
Tony
Emmy
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This word refers to "no place" or "ideal place"
Tetris
Utopia
Cyberpunk
Dystopia
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Work most responsible for the rise of the Cyberpunk genre:
Utopia
The Republic
Neuromancer
The Martian Chronicles
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This idea involves changing the surface of a planet in order to make it human-friendly:
Gas Lighting
Terraforming
Praying
Matrixing
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Battles between humans and aliens can be found in all of these works except:
Ender's Game
Starship Troopers
Old Man's War
Anthem
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The author whose research led to the advent of communications satellites:
Kim Stanely Robinson
Robert Heinlein
Arthur C. Clarke
Ray Bradbury
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2001: A Space Odyssey has all of the following except:
the internet
An embryonic star child
A questionable A.I. computer
meat-eating, evolving apes
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The first fully formed novel in SF. Also known as
The Modern Prometheus:
The Invisible Man
Frankenstein
The Handmaid's Tale
Snow Crash
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Term for a hypothetical, fully realized map of events and advances:
Future History
Terraforming
Technosphere
Ecotopia
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The American Myth of crossing and reshaping a lawless frontier is most often played out here:
Saturn
Mars
Pluto
Jupiter
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All of the following are part of "The Big Three" except:
Arthur C. Clarke
Ray Bradbury
Robert Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
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Popular TV and Film franchise that posits a hopeful outlook for humanity among the stars.
Game of Thrones
Star Trek
Star Wars
Colony
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The novella
Anthem
would fall into the following genre category:
Dystopian
"Hard" SF
Utopian
Cyberpunk
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Films like
The Matrix, Bladerunner, and Total Recall
arise out of what SF sub-genre:
Speculative
Cyberpunk
Utopian
Post-Modernism
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A prolific author who gave us the three laws of robotics:
Philip K. Dick
William Gibson
Isaac Asimov
Frank Herbert
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Cutting-edge genre characterized by gritty landscapes and information age intrigue:
Cyberpunk
Post-Modernism
The Golden Age
Nihilism
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Writer of classics such as
The Time Machine
and
War of the Worlds:
Jules Verne
Ray Bradbury
Isaac Asimov
H.G. Wells