KIDS QUIZ
SCIENCE FICTION
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Science fiction can lead to technological advancements in the real world.
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Science fiction is often a reaction to what is happening in society and the world.
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Mary Shelley was the first science fiction writer, even though that was not her intention.
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Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is her idea about what was possible at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jeff Prucher specifically defines a ‘sense of wonder’ as: A feeling of awakening or awe triggered by an expansion of one’s awareness of what is possible or by confrontation with the vastness of space and time, as brought on by reading science fiction.
Detailed explanation-2: -He wrote: “The greatest human significance of science fiction may be as thought experiments, as attempts to minimise future shock, as contemplations of alternative destinies. This is part of the reason that science fiction has so wide an appeal among young people: It is they who will live in the future…
Detailed explanation-3: -Science fiction carries this change of perspectives to extremes. By changing what counts as figure and what as background, the characters can be seen in ways otherwise impossible – and so, ultimately, we can understand ourselves in ways that would otherwise be impossible.