Science Fiction

Part I of Essay
, succinctly defined, is a literary genre generally characterized in form as a world of exaggerated drama which argues a social commentary using current scientific knowledge as its evidence. From the emergence in the 18th century of modern to the 'birth of the book' in the ....

Part II of Essay
.... faults using sarcastic and ironic devices which logically and scientifically support each other, Voltaire’s work allow people to see the incoherence of their own though. He demonstrates this by commenting on the absurdity of war and God: Those sedentary and slothful barbarians, who, From their palaces, give orders for murdering A million of men and then solemnly thank God for Their success (RABKIN, 67). At the root of his social criticism is a program of reformation. Voltaire’s greatest tool in Micromegas is his ability to use alienation ....