Science Fiction and Its Effects on Social

Science fiction has over years produced some of the greatest novels in the world since the time of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New York world and George Orwell’s 1984.A good number of these authors seems to reach a consensus that there is watertight evidence that science fiction merits have long been discussed in the critical circles as well. In as much, a lot of emphasis has been given to the specifically paid genre’s strong information. According to Kingsley () there is adopted focus in the new study that is considered a cornerstone in the science –fiction critism.He says that the genre tries to achieve a way of dramatizing social inquiry that provides a cultural tendencies which can be easily be isolated and judged (Kingsley).Therefore this genre serves a very good example of the more general tendency of fiction which provides a good grounds for social criticism. This provides a social discourse which will enable this theme to be discussed in the social circles.

Dick in is classic work, Valis of Trilogy combines both irony and colloquialism with a rich theological and the dialectic one man debate to bring out the serious and technical discussions about life. He claims that he received a vision from God the modern world is a fraud and therefore it is easy to establish some of this claims .Metaphorically speaking he was trying to pass a message for the modern sensibilities.

However another critics tend to agree with Kingsley but they go on to add that the power of science fiction as a tool as such depends generally on its content. According to Christine Brooke, science fiction is the hypothesized on the basis of some innovation in science or technology whether human or any other origin. She identifies science fiction as subject area th...

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...d where virtual reality can be confused for the reality but we do live where the spectacle of war has replaced its reality and the horror being witnessed of the terrorist attacks is mostly lived virtually by watching television screens. In today’s world the organic food is a foregone story and now we are witnessing the synthetic kind of food products that are grown artificially and the market is flooded and soon or later the issue of organic food will be a foregone story. The world is recovering from the hangovers of the nuclear effects and the environmental meltdown. Although Dick’s does not offer any real solutions to the problems of authenticity in the world today but seems to provide an early engagement with these problems. It is also an important genre of scientific fiction particularly America being on focus as he deals with cultural and ontological issues.