1. Philip K. Dick - However - Believes The Invention Of Robots May Protect The World From The Destructive Power Of Human Emotion. In The Defenders - Dick Concurs With Heinlein That Putting Nuclear Weapons In The Hands Of Emotional And Impulsive Human Beings Is A Recipe For Disaster. The Defenders Ends With The Robots Subverting Their Human Masters And Building A Better World In Which Humans Can Flourish.

2. Asimov's Theory On What Constraints Would Be Placed On Robots - And How Those Constraints Would Conflict With One Another And Create Problems. These Laws Are Laid Out In I - Robot - And Are Assumed In Bicentennial Man. Now They Have Been Adopted By The Tech Industry. Demonstration Of Conflict Between Robots And Humans - And Also Of The Symbiotic Relationship Between Science Fiction And Science. They Are: 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 Orders Given 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 Law.

3. Smaug

4. Vlad The Impaler

5. Kegare

6. Spacetime Continuum

7. Dwarves Vs. Elves

8. The Lion Of Comarre

9. Isaac Asimov Uses Stories About Robots As A Way Of Exploring The Human Tendency To Mistreat And Vilify The "Other." His Story Bicentennial Man Reads As A Futuristic Slave Narrative - As Robot Andrew Martin Uses The Legal System To Gain Recognition Of His Humanity And Basic Human Rights. Upon Hearing Andrew's Argument - The Judge Declares - "There Is No Right To Deny Freedom To Any Object With A Mind Advanced Enough To Grasp The Concept And Desire The State." This Statement Appears In Stark Contrast To The Historical Decisions Of The American Legal System - Which - For Generations - Allowed The Enslavement Of Millions Of People Who Desired Freedom. In Writing Bicentennial Man - Asimov Formulates A Conception Of Humanity That Has Ramifications Not Only For Future Technological Beings - But Also For Dispossessed Minority Groups. Every Being With Consciousness - Asimov Asserts - Is A Human Being And Equally Entitled To Basic Human Rights.

10. Morlocks And Eloi

11. Calcultec Vs. Semiotec

12. Sveti Georgi

13. Set During The Cold War Amid Fears Of Nuclear War. The Cold War Gae Rise To Golden Age Of Science Fiction Apocalypticism. These Stories Ussually Have Religious Components: "Apocalypse" Comes From Religious End Times Eschatologies. For Example - Ralph Realizes Everyone Is Gone When He's In Trinity Church. Also - The Quote On The Un Building Is From The Book Of Isaiah. Derrick Bell's Story The Space Traders Is Similar To The Movie The World - The Flesh - And The Devil In That It Introduces One Element Of Fiction To A Fairly Quotidian Reality And Then Sees How Race Relations Would Realistically Exist Or Break Down In The Face Of That Reality. In The World - The Flesh - And The Devil - Ralph Is Living A Perfectly Normal Life In A Small Town When - Unexpectedly - The World Ends. He Goes To New York And Finds That Only One New Yorker Has Survived - Sarah Crandall. Against The Fictional Backdrop Of The Apocalypse - Life Carries On As Normal. Ralph And Sarah Develop Feelings For One Another - But Cannot Be Together Since - Unlike Ralph - Sarah Is "Free - White - And 21." The World - The Flesh - And The Devil Creates A Sensation Of Cognitive Estrangement - Causing The Audience To See The Absurdism In Racial Segregation.

14. Biopolitics Is A Term That Was Coined By Michel Foucault. It Is Defined As The Calculated Management Of Life And Human Populations - Including How They Grow And How They Stop Growing. Biopolitical Decisions Involve Choices Between Who Lives And Who Dies In The Population. Congress And Government Always Engage In Biopolitics Through The Management Of Scarce Resources. The Approval Of A New Federal Budget Has Many Biopolitical Consequences; Decisions About Opioid Funding - Health Care - And Environmental Spending Could Mean The Difference Between Life And Death For Certain Groups. Battlestar Galactica Illustrates How Political Processes Are Tied To Biopolitical Concerns. In The Show - The Ship Is Faced With Scarce Resources Like Time - Weapons - Fuel - And Possible Escape Routes. When The Ship Encounters Civilian Survivors - It Cannot Take Everyone Onboard. The President Is Forced To Choose Between Leaving All The Civilians To Die At The Hands Of The Cylons And Spending Time Trying To Save Some. Ultimately - She Chooses To Let The Fleet Jump And Leave Behind Civilian Ships - Feeling That The Certain Survival Of The 50 - 000 People On Board Was Worth More Than The Uncertain Survival Of Thousands More Civilians.

15. Fantasy

16. Bicentennial Man

17. The Documentary Inside Job Exposes How Predatory Lending And Other Irresponsible Lending Practices Nearly Ended Bank Of America. The Federal Government Determined The Bank Was "Too Big To Fail" And Bailed Out The Bank - But Since That Time - Bank Of America And Other Lending Institutions Have Only Become Larger. The Damage Caused By Recessions Seems To Escalate With Every Financial Crisis - And Improper Bank Regulation - Especially When Paired With Looming Threats Like Financial Terrorism And Weaponization Of Currency - Could Eventually Cause The Collapse Of The Modern Economy.

18. Hobbit

19. Grandfather Paradox

20. Janissaries Vs. Order Of The Dragon

21. Neo-Slave Narrative

22. Afrofuturism

23. Robopsychology

24. Spirited Away

25. Theory Of Multiple Selves