Final Point Total

Week 1: Frankenstien by Mary Shelly (#6 points)

Week 2: Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice (#6 points)

Week 3: A Wild Sheep Chase (#6 points)

Week 3_1: Confessions by Kanae Minato (#5 points)

Week 4: Annihilation (#6 points)

Week 6: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (#6 points)

Week 7: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (#6 points)

Week Eight: Contemporary Fantasy - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Suzanna Clark (# 6 points)

Week Nine: New Frontier - The Martian by Andrew Weir (# 5 points)

Week Ten: The Fiction of Ideas - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuinn (# 5 points)

Week Eleven: Cyberpunk and Steampunk - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (# 6 points)

Week Thirteen: Literature and Speculation - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (# 6 points)

Week Fourteen: Speculative Satire - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (# 6 points)

Week Fifteen: Future Tense - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (# 5 points)

Total Point from reading: 80

Attendance: 13 < 2 absences, on Sep. 14th, on Oct. 19th(had a technical issue)>

Total: 93

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Week Fifteen: Future Tense - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (# 5 points)

This week, I read Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Overall, It was hard to read because there are a lot of characters in a story. The relationships between the characters keep increasing and get complicated, so sometimes it was a bit hard to follow the story. The view of the world and the characters the writer created are very fresh and unfamiliar as well. The new words like Fleet, Ancillaries, Nilt, and Radch pop up from the first page of this novel. At first, I needed time to get used to this new world, but at some point, I found myself empathizing with the speaker and experiencing the vast universe. A first-person narrator of this story is artificial intelligence, Breq, who still thinks that there are a lot of incomprehensible behaviors humans do, although it has been living 19 years with a human body. Breq must follow the command of her creator, the Radch’s monarch, but by a series of events, now she acts by her own free will. It can be read just as the er...

Week Eleven: Cyberpunk and Steampunk - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (# 6 points)

The shock of using VR devices for the first time is still unforgettable. It’s still a little closer to the virtual side than to the real one, but it was still amazing. Since then, I have been interested in virtual reality and augmented reality, and have started to read related articles and books. It was difficult to fully understand, but I was convinced that the technology would gradually focus on making virtual realities more realistic. VR appeared in the mid-2010s, but there was someone who came up with this concept 20 years before this. It’s Neal Stephenson, the writer of ‘Snow Crash’, and the novel ’Snow Crash’ is a book that enables us to approach the world of virtual reality more easily. Considering this book was published in 1992, I’m really surprised that the story described in this novel is almost close to the world right now, where a lot of Internet-related technologies have made remarkable development. ‘Metaverse’ the virtual place that the comput...

Week Fourteen: Speculative Satire - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (# 6 points)

A huge joke on a cosmic scale! I think if I define Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in one sentence, it seems like this can be said. The book is full of humor and jokes. The author is expressing his ingenious imagination regardless of any form and authority. In this book, things like the logical rationale and the probability of the story are not important. Unlike hard Science Fiction, which elaborately unfolds a story based on scientific theory, the charm of this book lies in the writer’s imagination and humor. As we can see from the setting that the Earth is a supercomputer designed by a super-intelligent race, the book shows the adventure of countless unique people and events between space and Earth, and prehistoric times and 5.6 trillion years later. Even the most entertaining jokes can get tired after hours of listening. To keep laughing and induce fun, we need a narrative device that will arouse the readers’ curiosity and tension...

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