Science Fiction Elements

THINK ABOUT:
How the science fiction elements affect:

- Personal Relationships
-Families
-Religion
-Community
-Moral Choices
-Lifestyles
-Child-Rearing


**The Giver
Potential Elements/Topics:  Eugenics, Designer Babies, Population Control, Distopia, Euthanasia…

**Ender’s Game
Potential Elements/Topics:  Government Suppression of Religion, Species and Human Genocide, One World Government, Extraterrestrial Life, Videogames and Violence, Edu-tainment (video games as schools), Eugenics...

**Fahrenheit 451
Potential Elements/Topics:  Freedom of Speech, Banned Books, Questioning Authority, Propaganda, The McCarthy Era, The Red Scare, Salman Rushdie, Distopia...

Jurassic Park
Potential Elements/Topics:  GMOS, Genetically-Modified Species, Frankenfood, Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest, Keeping Predators in Captivity, Bringing Back Endangered and Extinct Species...

The Martian
Potential Elements/Topics:  Space Exploration, Manned-Mission to Mars, The Mars Rover, Planetary Colonization, Interplanetary Farming, Terraforming, Psychological Effects of Extreme Isolation...

The Hunger Games Trilogy (any one book)
Potential Elements/Topics: Violence in the Media, War Reparations, “The 1%,” Government Propaganda, PTSD, Social Hierarchy, Protesting, Poor Uprising, Distopia...

Divergent Series (any in series)
Potential Elements/Topics:  Segregation, Apartheid, Tracking Human Potential, Rigid Caste Systems, Social Hierarchy, Protesting, Uprising, Elite “1,” Distopia...

Maze Runner (any in series)
Potential Elements/Topics:  Mind Control, Child-labor, Slavery & Indentured Servitude, Memory Erasing, Telepathy, Environmental Collapse...

Uglies
Potential Elements/Topics:  The Beauty Myth/Advantage, Mind Control, Body Shaming...

Unwind
Potential Elements/Topics:  Defiance/Rebellion, Capital Punishment, Body Part Harvesting, Genetic Regression...

The Time Machine
Potential Elements/Topics:  Caste System, Time Travel...

War of the Worlds
Potential Elements/Topics:  Biological/Germ Warfare, Extraterrestrial Life, Invasion...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Potential Elements/Topics:  Planetary Destruction, Interplanetary Travel, Space Ships Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Super Computers, The Meaning of Life...

*Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Potential Elements/Topics:  Virtual Reality, Easter Eggs, 80s pop culture, Multinational Corporations, Overpopulation, Environmental Destruction, Gaming Guilds/Clans, Free Enterprise, Care for / Housing of the Poor/Poverty, Corporate Terrorism, Online Education...

*Parental permission required

** Copies available in school