The distant sound of the bath alarm awoke me; my mother must have wanted a bath. I rolled about lethargically for a couple of minutes before sitting up and getting out of bed. The cyborg housebot was already making my bed, and it soon looked as though no one had ever slept in it. For my transport to school that day, I decided to opt for my hover board. As elegantly as a swan gliding through the water, I sailed through the air. On route, I was feeling thirsty. Luckily I spotted a hovering
Futuristic Story As I wake up from my simulation box on the stroke of half seven, I am ready for a new day. My name is Liam, and I was lucky enough to live in the past life, and the intergalactic life. This basically means that I was around during the year 2049, where the biggest physical change of the world took place. It is where man found out that a few planets were getting closer to earth, and man explored them and found not human life Yesterday I was in the intergalactic cross-country
I always had trouble understanding others. Growing up I never played with the other children. My grandfather said it was because my mind was too busy thinking of brilliant idea to actually talk to the others. I believed him. I believed in him for 17 years, that all stopped today. It all ended when I was riding my bike to the local market so I could pick up scrap parts for my grandfather. He said they were for his hovertech76 His prized antique hover car. As I made my way down the pavement I saw
For example, hoverboards, hovercars, interface ring, hologram, crash bracelets, smart gates and smart bedroom are all in Uglies. In the beginning of the book Tally says ‘goodnight’ to the room and the room replies ‘Sweet dreams’. For Tally to sneak into New Pretty Town she had to trick the smart gate by not wearing her interface ring. There was a moment in Uglies where Tally sneaked into New Pretty Town and got caught and police hovercars started to search for her, so she was in a
work with him to program the design the computer within the car, and he hired 10 people to work with Jonathan to design the motor, outside design, and all of the other parts of the car. Within just 1 year, their company had produced the first hovercar! The hovercar was a great success, and after manufacturing for just 1 more year, Oliver’s company had made tens of
Is Equality Fair? “Fair isn’t when everyone gets the same thing; it’s when everyone gets what they need. This quote is something I strongly agree with. It states that equality is not always fair, which I find to be very true. Many reliable sources back up this claim. It is evident that equality does not always mean fair because it forces people to do things against their will, it’s not natural, and it causes rebellion. Equality is not fair because it may force people to do unwanted things. According
You Must be This Daedalean to Join Perhaps most of what is considered “science fiction” today do not deserve such a prestigious title. Rather, they should fall under the genre of space adventure, or one of the many fantasy genres. This is what Philip K. Dick argues in an essay titled My Definition of Science Fiction. He regards stories that simply take place in the future—typically in space—cannot automatically be considered science fiction even if they involve advanced technologies beyond our current
The book I read was Pretties by: Scott Westerfeld. This book is the second book in a trilogy. The first book is Uglies. You will understand Pretties better if you read Uglies. Pretties was about a girl named Tally who has finally turned pretty. At first she thought that was she wanted, until she rediscovered the truth of becoming pretty. In the first book Tally met David, whose parents knew that truth. And that truth was horrible. Becoming pretty had its disadvantages. When you got the operation