Dystopia or Science Fiction Chapters

The opposite of utopia, stories of dystopia are characterized by tragic human consequences of current day practices including climate instability, squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. Compare utopia.

In 1880, John Rand Capron, an amateur scientist, suggests storm conditions can form crop circles.

"Cavorite" - a fictitious substance that allows flight - is found by Dr. Cavor, inWells'novel -The First Men in the Moon.

Author profile of Dr. Gene Parola, professor, writer and consultant.

Coming of age traditions in Hawaiian royal history.

Recorded in England since 1678, crop circles yield bigger crop production.

Dr. Henry Jekyll has written a full account of his experiments, which caused him to turn into Edward Hyde, but no one reads his statement until after ...

Concerned that Dr. Jekyll has willed his fortune to an unknown man called Hyde, Gabriel Utterson visits his friend and client, the doctor, to make sur...

Now that Henry Jekyll has disappeared, or died, Gabriel Utterson is cleared to read a letter which Dr. Lanyon has given him. He is stunned at its cont...

Evidence tends to suggest that crop circles are not always manmade, especially when they contain no footprints.

Since the death of her father, Katniss is responsible for hunting and gathering food for her families even though the government forbids it.

Ali’i - The Hawaiian noble order. Aloha - The word of greeting, departure and general affection in between. Hale - Grass house....

Hawaiian ali'i (noble) ohana (families) traced their origins back to great leaders from the mythic past.  And those connections were made th...

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