1. Science Fiction

3. How would you define it?
● fake
● some scientific info
● exciting/thriller
● real characters & fake
characters
● magic tree house
● unrealistic tech
● into the future
● hunger games
● what scientists belive
●

4. Merriam Webster
"fiction dealing principally with the impact of actual or imagined
science on society or individuals or having a scientific factor as
an essential orienting component "

5. Isaac Asimov
"That branch of literature
which is concerned with the
impact of scientific advance
upon human beings."
-- Isaac Asimov, in "Modern Science
Fiction," edited by Reginald Bretnor (1953)
Image: United States Library of Congress. Call number:
NYWTS - BIOG--Asimov, Isaac, Dr. <item> [P&P].
Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-115121

6. Robert A. Heinlein
"A handy short definition of almost
all science fiction might read:
realistic speculation about
possible future events, based
solidly on adequate knowledge of
the real world, past and present,
and on a thorough understanding
of the nature and significance of
the scientific method."
-- from: "Science Fiction: its nature, faults and virtues"
in The Science Fiction Novel, 1969
Image by Dd-b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heinlein-face.
jpg)

7. Clarke's 3 Laws
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something
is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture
a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic.

8. Ursula K. Le Guin
"All fiction is metaphor.
Science fiction is metaphor. What
sets it apart from older forms of fiction
seems to be its use of new
metaphors, drawn from certain great
dominants of our contemporary life --
science, all the sciences, and
technology, and the relativistic and the
historical outlook, among them. Space
travel is one of these metaphors; so is
an alternative society, an alternative
biology; the future is another. The
future, in fiction, is a metaphor."
Image via http://scienceblogs.
com/universe/2010/03/
-- Ursula K. Le Guin in the introduction of _ursula_k_leguin_is.php
The Left Hand of Darkness

10. Moon Trips
● Princess Kaguya 10th century
● Somnium by Johannes
Kepler 1630
● "The Unparalleled Adventure of
One Hans Pfaall" by Edgar
Allen Poe 1835
● From Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne 1865
● First Men in the Moon by H. G.
Wells 1901
● Feed by M.T. Anderson, 2004
"Earthrise" Image from NASA 12/24/2008 http:
● Life As We Knew It by Susan //www.archive.org/details/297755main_GPN-2001-
Beth Pfeffer, 2006 000009_full
● Cosmic by Frank Cottrell
Boyce, 2010

11. Princess Kaguya
c. 1650 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taketori_Monogatari_2.jpg

12. Somnium
Image by Bettina Forget via http://www.bettinaforget.
com/portfolio/2010/06/29/somnium-moonfish/

13. The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
Illustration by Yan Dargent, 1864 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:
Poe_Hans_Pfaall_Yan_Dargent.jpg

14. From Earth to the Moon
Illustration by Henri de Montaut, 1868 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%
27From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon%27_by_Henri_de_Montaut_39.jpg

15. First Men in the Moon
Picture by E. Hering, 1901 via http://books.google.com/books?
id=Hlk4AAAAYAAJ&dq=first%20men%20in%20the%20moon&pg=PA104-
IA1#v=onepage&q=first%20men%20in%20the%20moon&f=true

17. Life As We Knew It

18. Cosmic
Jacket art by Bill Mayer, 2010

19. Feed

21. Aliens
● True History by Lucian 2nd
century
● "Micromegas" by Voltaire,
1752
● War of the Worlds by H.G.
Wells, 1898
● True Meaning of Smekday
by Adam Rex, 2007
● Larklight by Philip Reeve,
2006
● Ender's Game by Orson
Scott Card, 1985
From Attack of the Clones, 2002 via http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CGIYoda.jpg

22. True History
Illustration by William Strang, 1894 via http://books.google.com/books?
id=vfbPAAAAMAAJ&dq=true%20history%20lucian&pg=PA20-
IA2#v=onepage&q=true%20history%20lucian&f=false

23. Micromegas
Image by Chalres Monnet via http://www.scholarsresource.
com/browse/work/2144597724

24. War of the Worlds
Drawing by Alvim Correa, 1906 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Correa-
Martians_vs._Thunder_Child.jpg

26. True Meaning of Smekday
Cover illustration by Adam Rex, 2007

27. Larklight
Cover art by David Wyatt, 2006

28. Ender's Game

30. Robots
● One Thousand and One
Nights
● Ozma of Oz by L. Frank
Baum, 1907
● R.U.R. by Karel Capek,1921
● Spacer and Rat by Margaret
Bechard, 2005
● Jimmy Coates: Assassin? by
Joe Craig, 2006
● Skinned by Robin
Wasserman, 2008
● Search For Wondla by Tony Image from The Hitchiker's Guide to the
Galaxy TV series via http://en.wikipedia.
DiTerlizzi, 2010 org/wiki/File:Marvin-TV-3.jpg

31. One Thousand and One Nights
Woodcut by William Harvey, 1850 via http://books.google.com/books?id=s6BbAAAAQAAJ&dq=one%20thousand%
20and%20one%20nights&pg=PA352#v=onepage&q=ebony&f=false

32. Ozma of Oz
Illustration by John R. Neill, 1907 via http://books.google.com/books?id=A-EQAAAAYAAJ&dq=ozma%20of%20oz%
201907&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=ozma%20of%20oz%201907&f=false

33. R.U.R
WPA poster, 1939 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wpa-marionette-theater-presents-rur.jpg

34. Three Laws of Robotics
1. A robot may not injure a
human being or, through
inaction, allow a human
being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders
given to it by human beings,
except where such orders
would conflict with the First
Law.
3. A robot must protect its own
existence as long as such
protection does not conflict
with the First or Second
Laws.
Illustration by Ed Cartier, ,1950 via http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I_robot.jpg

36. Skinned
Cover by Cara E. Petrus & Micahael Frost,
2008

37. Search for Wondla
Cover by Tony DiTerlizzi, 2010

38. Spacer and Rat
Cover photograph by Michael Llwellyn, 2005

40. Time Travel
● Looking Backward: 2000-
1887 by Edward Bellamy,
1887
● A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court by
Mark Twain, 1889
● The Time Machine by H.
G. Wells, 1895
● A Wrinkle In Time by
Madeline L'Engle, 1962
● King of Shadows by
Susan Cooper, 1999
● Found by Margaret
Peterson Haddix, 2008 Picture taken by Zir, 2007 via http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TARDIS2.jpg

41. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
via http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=10902

42. A Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur's Court
Illustration by Daniel Carter Beard, 1889 via http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/File:Connecticut_Yankee4_new.jpg

43. The Time Machine
from Classics Illustrated, 1956 via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:
The_Time_Machine_Classics_Illustrated_133.jpg

45. Found

46. A Wrinkle In Time
Jacket art by Taeeun Yoo, 2007

47. King of Shadows
Cover art by Rafal Olbinsky, 2001

49. Your Favorites

53. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book

54. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Use the science fiction plot tree to create a plot and title
Example: Time Giver
In a future destroyed world a teenage alien and an android that wishes to be human
fight memories of the past because time needs to be fixed.

55. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Go to www.flickr.com
● Search for a cover image
● Click on 'advanced search'
● Scroll to the bottom and check 'only search within Creative
Commons licensed content

56. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Select an image that you like and click on it
● Go to the 'actions' drop menu and select ' view all sizes'
● Download the photo
● Make note of who took it

57. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Open a new word document
● Insert the picture (or drag and drop)
● re-size photo to width of 4.5
● rotate if needed
● Select wrapping style 'Behind Text'

58. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Go to insert on the menu bar
● Select 'Word Art'
● Choose a word art style

59. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Customize your title's shape and
color with the toolbox
● Double click on 'your text here'
● Type in your title and select a font

60. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Insert a text box for the author's
name (yours)
● Customize the font using the
toolbox
● Add another text box to cite your
image

61. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
Notice cover image citation!

62. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
Finished early? Complete the rest of the jacket!

63. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● From 'File' on the menu bar,
select 'Page Setup'
● Select the landscape orientation

64. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Select the object palette in the toolbox and add a
rectangle
● Draw a rectangle the same size as your cover
● Go back to the formatting palette in your toolbox and
chose the wrapping 'in front of text'

65. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Select a fill color for your rectangle
that matches your cover
● Try using the 'Pick A Color' tool
● Click the eyedropper on your cover
over a color that you like
● Add a text box with your plot
description from the science fiction
plot generator

66. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Add fake review quotes or any other details you'd like
If you use another image,
be sure to cite it!

67. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
● Make a spine for the final touch
● Copy and paste the rectangle from your back cover
● Re-size it to fit between the two covers
● Copy and paste your title from your cover
● Rotate it to the right so it will fit on your spine
● Add one last textbox for the author's last name (yours)

68. Create Your Own Science Fiction Book
Congratulations, You're done! E-mail your creation to
ebretall@mcds.org