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Fantastic Voyaage: The Evolution of Scifi
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English
12th Grade
09/14/2011

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In 1951 ____________'s first speculated that earth was just one of the many planets circling the sun.
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Copernicus
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Science fiction rulled out the gods and monsters of ___________ and ___________ .
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Mythology and fantasy
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In 1818 Mary shelly wrote ___________ .
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Frankenstein
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The first great architype of scifi was the ___ scientist.
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Mad!!!!!
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Frankensteing helped develope an important scifi theme: man venturing too far into ____ domain.
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God
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______________ is sometimes created with being the first scifi wrighter because of his of scientific reality, such as his fictional account of the first trans-atlantic hot air baloon crossing.
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Born in France in 1828, _______________ wrote such classics as from the earth to the moon and 20'000 legues under the sea.
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Jules Vern
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Born in 1866, _____________ used scifi to srite social parables about the classic structure in england just as the _________ revolution moved into high gear.
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H.G. Wells and Industrial
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In 1895, well classic scifi novel, _______________ , pitted the Eloi; witch represented the aristocracy, adinst the cannibalistic Morlocks who represented the working class.
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The Time Machine
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Well's novel War of the Worlds reflects European _____________ by witch tecnological superiority in weapons defeats more primitive societies.
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Imperialism
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In the world Set Free, published in 1914, Wells Predicted _____ power.
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Atomic
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The _____ were weekly serials printed on low cost pulpy paper.
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Pulps
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Tarzan and John Catrer were heros created by __________________ .
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Edgar Rice Burrows
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In 1926, ______ Gernsback began ___________ Storries and is created with coining the term science fiction.
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Hugo and Amazing
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The first science fiction pulps were marketed to teenage _____ .
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Boys ;)
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The first scifi film is consitered to be George Melies' 1902 A Trip To The Moon.
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In 1926, Fritz Lang made the film __________ witch is consitered to be the best science fiction film ever made and is a allegory of the clash of communist, socialist, and Nazi ideals in post wwII germany.
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Metropolis
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In 1936 scifis most reconizable hero _____________ , became a movie serial.
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Flash Gordon
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Space _____ doesnt care about the hows and whys of tecnology.
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Opera
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On october 30, 1939 orson wells produced the radio broadcast of the __________________ , and many listeners believed this account of a martian invasion to be true.
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War of the Worlds
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In 1938, the comic book super hero, ___________ was created and the ____ was smashed.
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Superman and Atom
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In 1938 John Campbell became the new editor for ____________________and made it the first scifi magizine to put equill emphisis on bothe the science and the fiction.
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Astounding Science Fiction
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Three very influential science fiction wrighters that Campbell "discovered" _____________ , _____________ , and _____________ .
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Arthur Clark, Robert Heinman, and Issac Asimov
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because of the manhattan project and heroshima, the __________ was most dominite toppic in science fiction for the next decades.
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Attomic Bomb
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by 1946, WWII ended and the ____ war had began.
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Cold
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In 1953 __________ published _____________, a novel in witch fireman burn books.
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Rad Bradbury and Ferighn Height F51
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In 1947 thr first UFO sightin to gain national attention took place in the state of ___________ .
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Washington
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The 1951 movie, The Day The Earth Stood Still, was about an alien that had not come to earth to attack, but to deliver a _____________.
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warning
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In 1954, the movie _________ became the symbol of nuclear tests gone wrong.
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Godzilla
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The film, __________ Planet, is actually Shakespeares's The Tempest set in outter space.
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Forbidden
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In October 4, 1957, the soviet union launched the first satellite, ___________ , into earth orbil.
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Spudnick
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John F. Kennedy challendged our ountry to put a american on the moon by the end of the 19__'s.
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60's
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In 1959, ___________ created the landmarkscifi television series, The Twilight Zone.
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Rod Sterling
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In 1968, Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Sentinel" was transformed into stanley kubricks film, 2001, a space odessy. That featured a super computer named ____.
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Hal
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In 1977 george lucas released ________________ a movie that relied hevaly on archetypes from ancient ____________.
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Star Wars and Mythology
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Scifi is consitered by many to be the most _____________ gener of liturature.
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Subvasive
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In his 1984 novel, Neuromancer, William Gibson coined the term _____ and gave birth to the sub genure of scifi.
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Cyber Punk
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In the 1990s, ___ tecnology became the new focus of science fiction wrighters
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Bio
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What scifi best describes is not is not monsters or machines, but ___________________.
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Our Own Selfs
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Science Fiction is the human response to ___________ and ___________ .
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Science and Tecnology
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