Science fiction
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
A New Review of Science Fiction in Latin America, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_valley_victoria.pdf
Overview
"Within Latin America the publishing trends of Science Fiction have largely been ignored. I feel that this is a large error within the Latin American publishing industry, as Science Fiction in this region can incorporate the popular genres of Magical Realism, Fantasy, and the Fantastic. These forms of literature tend to be the most popular forms within the North American mindset as well. By honing in on Science Fiction I believe we can see an important wider cultural context of Latin...
Dates:
2021
Afterimages, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_shoults_joyce.pdf
Overview
"Afterimages is a science ficition [sic] psychological mystery that splits its setting between a small island in the British Isles and a world called the "Simulation." The narrative follows the character of Dahlia, an amnesiac woman trying to solve the mystery of who she was and what happened to her. This is a story about love, death, cults, and robots." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
A Lander-Based Action Role Playing Game and Real Time Strategy Game, in the Low-Poly Flat-Shaded Style, with Rogue like and Tower Defense Elements., 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016fall_kulakovich_bret.pdf
Overview
"Melinki Lander Arena is a science fiction video game in the low poly flat-shaded style, with role playing and real-time strategy components. This game is played on
maps that are actual 3D objects, which is a new approach in mobile device gaming, and unique to this application. This project combines multiple elements from different gaming mechanisms to synthesize a whole. While thematically similar to individual science fiction space games that preceeded it, the principal challenges of this...
Dates:
2016
Awakening, 1999
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1999
Azimuth, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_mcgrath-conwell_devin.pdf
Overview
"Azimuth is a feature-length film written with theatrical distribution in mind. It is conceived to feature a diverse cast of heroes/protagonists within a story designed to examine themes of duty, anti-fascism, and chosen family. The setting is the eponymous fictional moon Azimuth, the last stop in a galaxy where a fascist government enforces violent control. The story follows a long-separated couple and their compatriots as they contend with whether to stay and fight the forces of evil or...
Dates:
2023
Blood Incorporated, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_pruett_tyler.pdf
Overview
"This thesis consists of the first act of the novel 'Blood Incorporated,' a science fiction thriller. This story features Cowboy, the protagonist, who discovers himself alone on the tundra, stripped of his memories. He survives the elements to find more danger in the city of Fabula, where emissaries of the villain BA, a master of evil, patrol the streets and try to kill Cowboy. He finds friends to assist on his quest to retrieve his lost memories and connect him with supernatural powers,...
Dates:
2021
Blue eclipse, 2011
Item — Item 0113503032725: [Barcode: 0113503032725]
Overview
My project is a work of creative fiction, specifically of science fiction, about a post-apocalyptic world. Two people from vastly different backgrounds and harboring polar opposite views about their planets are thrown together because of intergalactic war
Dates:
2011
Charlie Parker and the Mystic Mountain, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_bruno_daniel.pdf
Overview
"'Charlie Parker and the Mystic Mountain' is a middle-grade fantasy adventure novel set in a Narnia-like world. Charlie Parker is a 12-year-old boy living in a normal town at the foot of a mystical mountain. He wishes he was anyone else, living anywhere else. His only safe haven is the dojo, where he practices karate and meditation—a road his mom started him on before she died giving birth to his little sister. Everything changes for Charlie when he finds a magic key from the hidden world on...
Dates:
2019
Crane Wife, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_machugh_lily.pdf
Overview
"In this speculative work of fiction, we follow a split narrative of a lonely girl named Jenny in a punk scene in the tristate area and a woman named Koda trying to escape a pocket dimension created by a man calling himself god. Through Jenny we see the beginnings of a cult and tendrils of the supernatural inching in. In Koda's narrative, we are left to deal with the aftermath, and watch as she tries to break free. Koda finds herself again as she journeys beyond the cult's compound, with the...
Dates:
2023
Cursebreakers, 1994
Item — Item 0113502360119: [Barcode: 0113502360119]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1994
Debbie and the Brain, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_courtade_joshua.pdf
Overview
"The Valley, 1986. Debbie, a way cool teenage brainiac, lands a rad internship with Dr. Ophelia Glutz, a robotics genius. Debbie's psyched to help her build a bodacious robot, but they need an organic brain to power the mechanical dude. Meanwhile, Debbie has eyes for hunky Chip Gordon, who's not too bright but is super sweet. A mega freaky surfing accident kills Chip, so Debbie swipes his brain and puts it in the robot dude's dome. Dr. Glutz gets super cheesed ‘cause Chip's lame brain makes...
Dates:
2021
Depths, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_gordon_olivia.pdf
Overview
"Depths is a science fiction story about learning to understand people different from oneself set in the middle of a war between two species battling for the right to colonize the same uninhabited planet. Its protagonist, Aven Torro, has a unique perspective into Dirt's—their enemy-turned-comrade—mind, but still struggles to overcome their assumptions and misconceptions. This conflict is further complicated by their personal desire for revenge after the death of their sister. Forced to work...
Dates:
2023
Dimensions, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_goldthwaite_samantha.pdf
Overview
"Alone after the deaths of his seven closest friends, Callan Thomas learns of the existence of the multiverse—and the fact that he and his friends are the subjects of a curse that follows them across the worlds. He is not the only one who was left alone, he finds; and so he sets out to bring together a new group of those who were left behind. In another world, Winter Williams and her friends stumble across a rift in the fabric of the universe, and encounter a being who seeks to destroy it...
Dates:
2023
Fall of a God, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_grant_jacqueline.pdf
Overview
"FALL OF A GOD is a feature-length film that explores the concept of what society deems a "good person" and a "bad person" through a cast of questionable characters in a horror-inducing dream world. It aims to challenge society's assumptions of the relationships and power dynamics between various types of people. This horror film follows an anti-hero protagonist who attempts to regain control of herself from a volatile god in a modern-day retelling of the story of Hades and Persephone with a...
Dates:
2023
Fantasy Unchained, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_hempel_dustin.pdf
Overview
"Fantasy Unchained is a blend of the science fiction and fantasy genres, set in a near future Seattle and a new virtual reality online game that feels completely real. The story follows Aislinn Graham in her search for the Songmasters of Sarn in the game after she receives a mysterious letter from her dead mother. As she struggles in her search, the lines between the worlds begin to blur as she realizes the characters in the game may be sentient, and they have agendas of their own. Fantasy...
Dates:
2022
Genies, 2005
Item — Item 0113502759310: [Barcode: 0113502759310]
Overview
In the near future, a worldwide epidemic of cancer is the impetus for the controversial creation of genetic constructs or 'genies' -- abstract.
Dates:
2005
Girl at End of World, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_metter_laura.pdf
Overview
"Girl at End of World' is a novel about a young girl who must deal with both the dramas of her teen life and the supernatural events that start to occur around her. She starts the book as anxious, judgmental, and unsure of how to handle the problems handed to her, leading her to chase after the paranormal rather than deal with the normal. By the end, she learns how to process and confront her problems, understanding the depth of people and issues alike, and by doing so, she is able to make...
Dates:
2021
How to Lose a Planet, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_lucas_neil.pdf
Overview
"The mission, I would say, of How to Lose a Planet is to create a future where Black people are centered. As a science-fiction fan, I was taken by Carl Sagan's critique of Star Wars: A New Hope: "They're all white. The skin of all the humans in Star Wars, oddly enough, is sort of [points to himself] like this." I wanted to create a story set in a future where the lives of Black people don't just matter, they thrive. And not just Black in the sense of having melanin, but Black in the sense...
Dates:
2021
Just another alien story, 1999
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1999
Light Catchers, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_roberts_jarrod.pdf
Overview
"This project is a pilot and limited series for a run of ten episodes, revolving around a lone-wolf criminal assembling a heist team to steal a corporation's secret method of faster-than-light travel. The science fiction and heist hybrid follows the main character around a developed solar system, to recruit maladaptive experts into his team, including his distant mother figure and mentor, an ex-gang member robot, a deaf combat specialist, and a hacker addicted to existing in cyberspace." --...
Dates:
2022