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1. Space Travel

Inside JobMajeure ClauseHistorical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.

2. Vlad The Impaler

3. Short Story By Philip K. Dick Exploring What Would Happen If Weapons Were Able To Self-Propagate And Design Themselves - Becoming Indistinguishable From Humans. In The Story - Weapons Are Able To Pose As Humans And Trick The Main Character Into Giving Up The Location Of The Moon Base. The Weapons Turn On Their Masters - Decimating Humanity. Parallels To The Cylons In Battlestar Galactica.

4. Paul Mayer's Plan To Avoid A Financial Armageddon In The Panic Of '89. $25 Billion Latin America Debt Relief Fund - Negotiate Temporary Moratorium On Interest Payments - Cutback Saudi And British Oil Production - Convince Japan To Buy 250 Million Barrels Of Oil At $20 Price.

5. Speculative Fiction

Majeure ClauseSpeculative Fiction Describe Hypothetical Futures By Working Within The Realm Of What Is Possible. For Instance - Paul Erdman's Panic Of '89 Is A Piece Of Speculative Fiction Set 2-3 Years In The Future. Erdman's Story Is Set On The Familiar Campus Of Georgetown University - Incorporates Real Characters Like President Reagan And Mikhail Gorbachev - And Incorporates Research About The Real State Of The Financial Sector In The 1980'S. The Story Departs From Reality - However - By Imagining How Anti-American Individuals Might Work To Dismantle The American Economy. These Works Of Speculative Fiction Set In The Near Future Are Thought Of As Predictive Science Fiction. Some Speculative Fiction - Like The History Channel Program "After Armageddon - " Can Impose An Emergency Situation On A Real-World Setting In Order To Help People Prepare For A Potential Crisis. Another Type Of Speculative Fiction Is The Alternative History - Which Presents "What If" Situations To Imagine What May Have Happened If Historical Events Had Played Out Differently. For Example - Philip K. Dick's Man In The High Castle Imagines What Life In The 1960'S Would Have Been Like If Fdr Had Not Survived An Assassination Attempt. According To Dick - This Relatively Small Change In American History Would Have Set Off A Butterfly Effect - Causing The Allied Powers To Lose Wwii. The Basis Of Alternative History Is To Remind Us We Need To Be Ever-Vigilant - Because History Could Have Easily Turned Out Much Differently.Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.

6. Morlocks And Eloi

Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Majeure ClauseIn The Time Machine - Millennia Of Subjugation Of The Working Class By The Aristocracy Has Caused A Biological Split Of The Species. By The Year 802701 - The Aristocracy Have Become The Eloi - Small - Androgynous Beings With Large - Dull Eyes And Limited Intellect. They Are The Product Of Biological Engineering - And For Millennia Did Not Have To Struggle To Survive. Meanwhile - The Working Class Have Evolved Into Morlocks - Blind Monsters That Live Underground And Resurface At Night To Eat The Eloi. Wells Presents Morlocks As The Very Antithesis Of Human Progress - And Finished The Evolution Of Primates Into Man By Once Again Reverting Into Primates. The Time Traveler Instantly Despises The Morlocks - Aligning Himself Instead With The Elfish Descendants Of His Aristocratic Dinner Guests. The Separation Of The Species Into Eloi And Morlocks Is Used As A Critique On Capitalism And The Social Division Of Aristocrats And Laborers. Wells Draws On Social Darwinism As A Frame For Thinking About How The Species Will Evolve As The Strong Continue To Persist And Dominate. In The Time Traveller's Own Time - Distinctions Between Classes Are Still Socially Constructed - But Wells Predicts That Millennia Of Oppression Will Transform These Artificial Divisions Into An Evolutionary Split. Eventually - The Oppressed Will Become Predators Who Prey On Their Frail Oppressors. The Evolution Of Mankind Into The Animal-Like Morlocks And Eloi Demonstrates Wells's Atavism - Suggesting That Man Is Regressing And Nature Will Have The Final Ability To Determine The Future Of Humanity.

7. Smaug

Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Majeure ClauseDragon Who Forced The Dwarves Into Exile - Terrorized The Surrounding Peoples - And Keeps Guard Over The Dwarves' Riches. The Dwarves - Led By Thorin - Aim To Kill The Dragon And Reclaim Their Lost Treasure. Bilbo Engages In Riddles With Smaug - And Smaug Is Ultimately Brought Down By Bard - A Human. Parallels To Grendel In Beowulf. Smaug Was A Dragon Who In T.A. 2770 Had Destroyed The Dwarf-Kingdom Of Erebor - Which Was Centred Under The Lonely Mountain (Sindarin Erebor) - And The Neighbouring Wealthy Town Of Dale. Smaug Stole All The Treasure Of Erebor And Dale - Gathering It Into A Deep Chamber Under The Mountain - Where He Lived Thereafter. King Thrã³r And The Surviving Dwarves Of Erebor (Durin's Folk) Were Driven Into Exile.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.

8. Bicentennial Man

Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Majeure ClauseA Story By Isaac Asimov Written At The Time Of The American Bicentennial - "Bicentennial Man" Refers Both To The Title Of The Work And To The Protagonist - Andrew Martin. Bicentennial Man Is A Slave Narrative Set In The Future - As Robot Andrew Martin Struggles To Buy His Own Freedom And Have His Rights Recognized By The Courts. This Story Imagines The Legalistic Consequences Of Artificial Intelligence - Posing Fundamental Questions Like "Who Should Have Freedom?" And "What Does It Mean To Be Human?" The Story Predicts The Eventual Blending Of Man And Robotics; Andrew Upgrades His Body To Become Indistinguishable From A Biological Human And Invents Robotic Prosthetics That Can Enhance The Human Body. Moreover - He Argues That Personality - Self-Possession - Self-Awareness - Creativity - And Ability To Die Are The Definite Human Characteristics. By Allowing His Positronic Brain To Wear Out - Andrew Allows Himself To "Die" And Is Finally Recognized As A Human. On The Question Of Freedom - Asimov Posits That Anyone Or Anything That Can Understand The Concept Of Freedom And Desires Freedom Of Right Ought To Be Free. Andrew Doesn't Just Declare Himself A Human; He Wants His Status To Be Affirmed By The Human Community And Works Through Laws And The Court To Attain Recognition Of His Humanity. This Adherence To The Rule Of Law Displays A Faith By Asimov That Law And Reason Will Lead To Social Progress And The Triumph Of The Civil Rights Movement. This Stands In Stark Contrast To Derrick Bell - Whose Story - The Space Traders - Criticizes The Civil Rights Movement And Argues That Even The Rule Of Law Cannot Ensure The De Facto Prevention Of Rights Or Prevent The Influence Of Racism.Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.

9. Calcultec Vs. Semiotec

Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Represents The Growing Struggle For Information. Fictionalized Form Of Corporate Espionage In Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World. Murakami Suggests That Calcutecs And Semiotecs May Actually Be The Same Company. Represents The Idea That Defection From The System Is Actually An Illusion; There Are Only A Few Players That Are Actually In Charge Of Everything.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Majeure Clause

10. Theory Of Multiple Selves

11. Neo-Slave Narrative

Majeure ClauseThe Neo-Slave Narrative Distinct Literary Genre That Formed As A Response To The Slave Narrative - Which Was The First Autochthonous Genre In African-American Literature. The Slave Narrative Was Typically An Autobiographical Testimonial Including Religious Themes About The Author's Journey From Slavery Into Freedom - Such As Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass. As Part Of The Cult Of True Womanhood - These Slave Narratives Typically Omitted Descriptions Of Graphic Violence And Rape In Order To Present Female Protagonists As Chaste And Virginal. In Contrast - The Neo-Slave Narrative Is A Work Of Contemporary Fiction That Includes Graphic Violence And Rape - As Well As Psychological And Social Realism. It Tries To Get At The Truth Of The Slave Experience. The Neo-Slave Narrative Typically Includes Elements Of The Fantastic - In Part Because The Fantastic Can Be Used To Illuminate The Bizarre And Surreal Nature Of Slavery. One Example Of A Neo-Slave Narrative Is Octavia Butler's Kindred - In Which A Modern-Day Time Traveler Finds Herself Living As A Slave On A Plantation In The Antebellum American South. Butler Uses The Frame Of Time Travel To Realistically Portray Slavery From A Modern Perspective - Revisiting The Slave Narrative Tropes Of "Uncle Tom - " "Mammy - " "Sally - " "Field Slaves - " And "House Slaves." Butler Introduces Characters Who Fit All Of These Stereotypes And Then Explores Their Psychological Motivations - Conveying The Message That Slavery Was A Brutal Reality In Which People Were Forced To Adapt Into Or Die. Alice Is Presented As A "Sally" Who Was Forced Into A Sexual Relationship With Her Master - Rufus. Where The Cult Of True Womanhood Would Have Ignored Or Vilified Alice - The Neo-Slave Narrative Casts Alice As A Complex - Sympathetic Character Who Is The Victim Of Her Horrifying Circumstances.Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.

12. 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.

13. 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.

Financial Armageddon - Similar To The Panic Of '89.Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Majeure Clause

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.

Majeure ClauseMovement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.TelepathyHistorical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.

15. The Lion Of Comarre

Short Story By Arthur C. Clarke. The Invention Of Machines That Could Interface Perfectly With The Human Mind - Reading And Reproducing The Human Brain. As A Result - Man Has Been "Freed" From Work; Everyone Has The Opportunity To Be A Hedonist. The People Pursue Art And Statesmanship Rather Than Science Or Engineering. The Advance Of Machinery Has Culminated In The Stagnation Of Human Progress - Creating A Culture Of Complacency Around Mankind. In The Story - Peyton Is Seen As The Only Person Left Who Still Has A "Blind Desire To Bridge Space To The Stars - " And Tells His Father That "Only The Animals Are Contented." First - Though - Peyton Seeks Out The Hidden City Of Comarre - Which Is Only Hidden - He Finds - Because Few People Make The Effort To Seek It Out. Those Who Do Seek Out The City Of Comarre Become So Ensconced In A Virtual Paradise That They Never Wish To Leave; They Are Like Odysseus' Men Who Eat The Lotus Flower And Forget Their Homelands. The Story Calls Into Question What The Human Existence Would Look Like If Work Were No Longer Necessary. If Robots Were Able To Replace Men In The Workforce - Men Could Temporarily Exert His Energies On The Pursuit Of Pleasure. Eventually - However - Robots Would Take All The Effort Out Of Hedonism; Men Could Exist In A Happily Vegetative State - Hooked Up To A Machine That Simulated Their Wildest Fantasies. Clarke Suggests That If Humanity Becomes Complacent - It Will Also Become Redundant.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Majeure ClauseHistorical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.

16. Derived From The Greek Word For "No Place - " Utopia Refers To A Perfect Society With Peace And Harmony - No Disease - And Bountiful Food. In Theory - A Utopia Should Be The Most Perfect Version Of The Future. However - Science Fiction Often Challenges The Idea Of Utopia - Suggesting Utopia Can Never Truly Exist. At First - It Seems That The Eloi Live In A Utopia - But Wells Argues Utopic Lack Of Struggle Would Cause A Weakening Of The Species And Loss In Intelligence - Resulting In The Eventual Demise Of Humanity. Similarly - The Lion Of Of Comarre Presents A Utopic Future In Which Robots Perform All The Hard Labor And Men Are Free To Pursue Their Dreams. Still - Many People Try To Escape From Society And Spend The Rest Of Their Lives Asleep. "Even In Utopia - " Clarke Write - "Some For Whom The World Had Nothing To Offer But Sorrow And Disillusion." This Suggests That Hardships Will Exist In Any Society - And Utopia Can Never Truly Exist. Dystopia Is Defined As A Society Of Normalization - And Can Manifest As Either An Authoritarian Surveillance State - As In George Orwell's 1984 - Or A State Of Lawlessness - Dispersed Power - Or Rival Warlords - As In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road. Both Types Of Dystopia Feature In Man In The High Castle; The Great Nazi Reich Represents An Authoritarian State - While The Neutral Zone Is A Dangerous And Lawless Society. Unlike Utopia - Dystopias Can Exist And Have Existed. Octavia Butler Presents The Weylin Plantation As A Dystopia; The Slaves Are Constantly Monitored By The Weylins And The Overseer - Knowledge Is Restricted And Books Are Sometimes Burned - And The Head Of The Plantation Acts Like An Authoritarian Leader With The Unrestricted Power To Harm Or Kills His Slaves. Politicians Often Create Ideas Of Both Utopia And Dystopia To Create All Encompassing-Social Visions. Frederick Jameson Says These Visions - Which He Calls Social "Totality" - Are Necessary To Achieve Political Progress And Make Those Visions Possible.

17. Robopsychology

18. The Butterfly Effect

19. Device Invented By The Scientist In Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World Removes Sound (Or Turns Down Volume). Contributes To A Sensation Of The Uncanny - Something Not Quite Right. Commentary On Commoditization Of Everything In The Future.

Majeure ClauseThe Mayer PlanMovement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.

20. Hobbit

21. Contractual Term That Allows A Contract To Be Void In The Event Of An Extreme And Unpredictable Change In Circumstances That Would Make It Impossible For One Party To Fulfill Its Obligations. Appears In Paul Erdman's The Panic Of '89; Drops In Commodity Prices Allow Brazil - Mexico - And Venezuela To Get Out Of Repaying Their Debt To The United States. Without The Help Of Paul Mayer - This Clause Would Have Allowed The U.S. To Sink Into A Financial Armageddon.

BiopoliticsHistorical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Majeure Clause

22. Grandfather Paradox

Past-Directed Time Travel Stories Force Authors To Grapple With The Question Of Unintended Consequences And The Potential Existence Of Paradoxes. For Example - The Classic Grandfather Paradox Poses The Question - 'What Would Happen If A Person Traveled Back In Time And Killed Their Own Grandfather?' To Get Around This Paradox - Time Travel Stories Typically Conceptualize Time Travel As A Time Loop Or Movement Within A MultiverseMovement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Majeure ClauseHistorical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.

23. Janissaries Vs. Order Of The Dragon

Historical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Conflict In Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian Between Warriors Of Sultan Mehmed Ii (Taken From Their Infidel Families As Children And Raised To Be Elite Soldiers) And Those In The Service Of Vlad Dracula. Represents The Historical Struggle Between The Ottoman Empire And Small Eastern European States Like Wallachia. Parallels To The 20th Century Struggle For Autonomy Of Eastern European States Pitted Against The Soviet Union. Blurs The Boundary Between Good And Evil In Statecraft/War; Vlad's Methods Are Seen As Evil - But His Struggle Against An Occupying Power Is Shown As Somewhat Noble. The Janissaries - Too - Have Some Moral Ambiguity; They Demolished Cities And Allowed Rape And Pillaging To Go On For 3 Days After Conquest - But After That They Brought Peace - Order - And Tolerance To The Regions They Took.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Majeure Clause

24. Afrofuturism

Majeure ClauseHistorical Prince Of Wallachia Who Was Infamous For His Cruelty; Murdered Thousands Of His Own Citizens And Reportedly "Drank Their Blood." Inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula And Myths About Vampires. Elizabeth Kostova Imagines What Would Happen If The Myths Were Real And Vlad The Impaler Still Existed Today As A Vampire In Her Novel - The Historian. Explores The Nature Of Evil And The Relevance Of History And Myth In Today's Society. Kostova Says Vlad Inspired Stalin And Hitler.Movement Through Space - Often Causing Encounters With Alien Civilizations. Often Requires The Use Of Technology That Allows Spaceships To Travel Faster Than Light In A Way That Is More Fantastic Than Scientific - Like Battlestar Galactica's Jump Drive Or Star Wars' Hyperspace Capabilities. Also Affiliated With Time Travel Through Einstein's Theory Of Spacetime - As In May Be Some Time.Afrofuturism Was Initially Described By Mark Dery As "Speculative Fiction That Addresses African-American Themes And Addresses African-American Concerns In The Context Of 20th Century Techno-Culture." It Draws On The Desire To Employ Language Of Science To Deconstruct Binary Opposites Like The Human/Subhuman - Modern/Primitive - Future/Past. It Challenges The Dominance Of Western Culture To The Exclusion Of Other Worldviews - Often By Introducing Hybrid Forms Of African-Based Cosmologies (Such As Egypt And Ethiopia) And Recoding Myths And Symbols. Afrofuturism Applies Images From Science Fiction - Like Space Travel - Time Travel - And Robots - As A Science Fiction Mirror Critiquing The World. It Builds On The Fantasy Of The "Return To Africa - " Which Is Found In Traditional African Diasporic Thought. It Places African Subjects On The Cutting Edge Of Modernity And Post-Modernity - And Considers Utopic And Dystopic Visions Of Raceless Societies And Totalitarian Regimes In Which Race Is Dominant. It Creates A New Black Technoscape To Reconfigure The World In African Diasporic Terms - Capturing The Alienation And Estrangement That African-Americans Experience And Science Fiction Authors Describe. Examples Of Afrofuturism Include Derrick Bell's The Space Traders And Samuel Delany's Corona. In The Space Traders - Bell Uses The Afrofuturist Idea Of An Alien Offer To Buy The Entire African-American Population Of The United States To Expose And Criticize The Continued Existence Of Racism In America.

25. 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.

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