Category Archives: Group 7

“Cometancer”

            Jim led Julia to the roof of the tower while hypnagogic images burned through his mind. Symbols in the forms of once known figures and faces seized his brain’s attention. These images were forms of visual information to Jim. The images were secrets embedded in his the past. However, they were irrelevant to their future. […] Continue reading

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Clone, that does matter in science fiction:)

 In the novel, The House of Scorpion, Matt serves as a protagonist through the novel.  A young figure,Matt, finally survives and defeats the evil power by helpers around him and by his own courage. Also, since the author of this … Continue reading Continue reading

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Recurring Sci-fi themes in House of the Scorpion

In opposition to the earlier blogging groups who talked about the differences between House of the Scorpion and the other science fiction novels we’ve been reading this semester, I’m talking about the similarities therein. The most prominent factor to be … Continue reading Continue reading

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What Constitutes Human?

We have yet another work that begs the question, what is it to be human? In our previous texts we’ve dealt with this question multiple times, with more confusion than actual conclusions. After all, it is Science Fiction, so how can we say what is and i… Continue reading

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Sympathy for Sarasti!

p.319-(Rewrite in Sarasti’s view) [There was no sound. I felt sort of uneasiness through the weird expressions of the holograms. But I soon called the entire hominid tree into existence around me, and was quite astonished by their range of … Continue reading Continue reading

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Are clones human?

In comparing The House of the Scorpion to the other works we have read this semester, the obvious theme to me that has connected them all is the question over what exactly makes one human, and just who can be considered human. What differentiates The House of the Scorpion is that it is the only […] Continue reading

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The Irrelevance of Technology and Time in Nancy Farmer’s ‘The House of the Scorpion’

          After reading the first fourteen chapters of Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion I noticed two elements in this text that make The House of the Scorpion unique to the other science fiction texts we have read this semester. The first unique element in the novel is that the technological advancements in the […] Continue reading

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“He” vs.”It”- The House of the Scorpion

Even though I read the summary of The House of the Scorpion and I began reading the novel with the …

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Siri Isn’t Siri Anymore

The first punch came as I tried to walk away from the group of bullies, their stature far exceeding my own in spite of the equality of age. At eight I was much smaller than other boys my age. Other boys who had been genetically modified…perfected, … Continue reading

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Doesn’t everybody wish it could all be Rum and Leather? (p. 155)

Of course Sarasti gets to stay behind.  Of course the expendables get to go into the horrific electromagnetic deathtrap that is Rorschach.  We’re all crammed into the shuttle looking like fat people trying on too-small sweaters, but at least we were … Continue reading Continue reading

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