MY SCIENCE FICTION PROJECTPaul Bribosia 4d

The ark:

This ark is moving, not on a waste of waters,But through the bombarding dust of outer space,Carrying the sole survivors of earth On a star trek to a safer place.

Like an echo at an immense distanceFrom an earth polluted and scarred by men , Somewhere the twin of earth orbits a sunAnd there perhaps we may begin again .

In the acres of this circular greenhouse Individual plants and creatures flourish and die ;on the centuries-long voyage through space They carry life in relays and so do I.

My ancestors escaped in time from earth And looking back could see the old home burned;My descendants will remember their stories But neither be able nor wish return.

Generations pass : within the Ark Prey and predator alike are looking for That replica planet where, hunted or hunters They can begin their life on Earth once more.

Stanley Cook

Impressions on:   «   the ark   » This poem, entitled « the ark » and written by Stanley Cook, deals with the question of survivalism.

The main points and themes are the survivors from earth, their regrets, science fiction, their past and future life. To comment on the main points, I can say it is not very realistic because it would be too expensive to build such a ship, and the generations would have already end.I liked it because it is one of the first poem having the idea of surviving through space. Surviving through space, surviving by reproducing generation after generation, and the way the poets explains the thoughts and regrets of their ancestors which is very touching. I recommend this poem for people who desespertly want to escape from earth.

The Trigan Empire The Trigan Empire was written by Mike Butterworth and drawn essentially by Don Lawrence, between 1962 and 1982. The main points and themes are Science Fiction, war, love, ancient civilisation, alien and science. The Trigan Empire is a story tell from cartoons, which is very special because the particularity of the Trigan Empire is that it is a contrast between new technologies and a undeveloped civilization. The weird thing is that they all live in the same world.

Space poem

We stopped at a large asteroid during our transgalactic run .The crew, all bored and bloddy-minded, got off determined for some fun.

Some F-type alienoids were hanging From rocks by their pink sucker-pads.They soon let go. Those who resisted took a fair beating from my lads.

Then from the cliff above a shower of pebbles struck the ground like hail an M-type on a ledge stood swinging a great one in his fuctional tail.

He killed a man before I got him in the desintegrator ray.The crew retreated to the airlock .The F-types screamed and climbed away.

I've called the medic-bank in Theta on my molecular stenophone.We must have got a bug, or virus.The crew are sckening one by one .

The specimen we caged is thriving,watching me as I close this file.My God, I'd swear the thing was smiling if I thought things like that could smile. T.F KLINE

Comments on space poem   :

Space poem is about human beings in space, during their transgalactic run. They arrive on a alien planet, sure that they are going to kill easily some aliens. Against all odds, they catch a virus and all die . I liked this poem because, it is well described, you immediately imagine the story in your mind, partly because of reality and the good descriptions. A story like that could have really happen in thousands of years. I really recommend this poem for people who do not read a lot , because it gives you the idea of what a book can bring to you.

My creative writing   : trapped in space

After a year traveling in space, we finally arrived at our destination, the planet was called Mountanus. The planet was reputed to have lots of mountains and deserts, so we had to provide tones of water. After 24 years working for the company, I was promoted to captain for this expedition. I had a very comfortable room in the spaceship with a bathroom and a king size bed. But everything changed when we arrived on that planet…

The huge vessel landed on Mountanus, the gates opened and everyone gathered in the hall to march on the planet at the same time. It was a spectacular view, the sun was glistening over our heads and it gave to all of us an idea of what paradise would be like. After that impressive moment, we installed a camp, with gardens, animals, tables, pool and scientific rooms which were very important because we had to analysis lots of things on this planet. We all slept in the vessel and passed our journey in the camp or outside, the atmosphere was the same as it is on earth so it was perfectly fine.

After a month on this planet, we had to retreat as it was planned, otherwise we would not have enough resources for the return journey. So the next day the camp was dismantled and we all were ready to go. A kid had managed to enter in the heart of the vessel were all the command system were, and he pressed all buttons. So the vessel was starting to shake and then we heard a “BOOM”; the engine was so confused that he had exploded .The families started to panic and the Scientifics were paranoid while the mechanicals were shouting “It is over, we are all going to die !”; that wasn’t very useful. In a rapid manner, I took food and water and I climbed on a ladder at the end of the corridor of my room. I knew there was an escape vessel which could carry only five passengers. The emergency vessel was on the roof of the giant one. I run as fast as I could and opened the little doors and prepared the lift off. Hundreds of persons heard that noise and tried to climb, but when some men, managed to climb on the top , my vessel had already left .They all died…

2012 movie :

It's hard to do justice to this ridiculous, wonderful movie. To describe "2012" is to make it sound like every other end-of-the-world disaster epic you've ever seen. And it is. It's a Roland Emmerich film very like his others - "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow" - about an epic, global catastrophe that begins ...But wait. You already know how it begins: In a small room, a scientist looks at a computer screen and mutters ... "My God!"

Sure, you've seen this before, and yet you haven't, not quite like this. People talk about "formula" almost always as a pejorative, but formulas get to be formulas because they work, and there's something to be said for a formula picture done almost to perfection. In "2012," Emmerich gives you everything you expect, but gives it to you bigger.

Imagine a car racing through a neighborhood in Pasadena as the street and the houses behind it crumble into the center of the Earth. Imagine a plane taking off on a disintegrating runway - and having to fly around falling buildings and an unmoored elevated train. Imagine massive tidal waves sweeping through coastal cities and wiping out (you guessed it) major landmarks. Now imagine everything twice as grand as you're picturing it.Sure, you'll laugh at "2012" - I laughed at it; laughing at it is part of the experience - but you'll do it from the edge of your seat.

This time, the core of the Earth is overheating. A government scientist (Chiwetel Ejiofor),

working in concert with a colleague in India, calculates that soon the Earth's crust will destabilize. Entire continents will disappear, and other landmasses will migrate thousands of miles in the course of a day. This means the guaranteed death of billions and billions of people (and animals) and the end of the world as we know it. Not surprisingly, the government, led by the president (Danny Glover), decides to sit on this information, and so for a good long stretch, the audience has the fun of knowing more than the characters. John Cusack plays Jackson, a sci-fi writer, who takes his kids to Yellowstone only to find that his favorite lake has dried up. Meanwhile, California is getting hit by a series of bizarre, localized earthquakes. In one spectacular early scene, a crevice opens up right down the center of a supermarket aisle.

Like Kentucky Fried Chicken, Emmerich does one thing, but he does it right. He inserts moments of welcome black comedy, as when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (played by a look-alike), somehow still in office, announces that the worst is over - only to be interrupted by the worst quake yet. And Emmerich makes sure that the special effects are nothing less than jaw-dropping. The scene of Cusack driving with his family as the world caves in behind him has to go down as one of the best CGI sequences ever filmed. Along the way, Emmerich, who co-wrote the script with Harald Kloser ("The Day After Tomorrow"), tries to create a panorama of American life, from the hard-nosed government bureaucrat (Oliver Platt) to the whacked out, conspiracy-theory-loving radio host (Woody Harrelson). In one case, he goes too far: The tiny subplot about an old musician (George Segal, in a vague echo of Judd Hirsch in "Independence Day") belonged on the cutting-room floor.

But for a 158-minute movie, there's very little fat. And although it is true that "2012" is at its best in the first half, that first half is incredibly satisfying, and the second half doesn't flag. Emmerich's characters may be rough sketches, but he casts them well, and having people you care about at the center of a disaster makes the special effects that much more effective. You don't want to see Cusack and Amanda Peet fall into the Earth's core, after all.At the same time, "2012" is a light film, with very little introspection and an upbeat tone that's undiminished by the implied slaughter of about 7 billion people. This is ludicrous, and yet it's interesting, in that it may signal a shift within the culture at large. For seven years following 9/11, we had a series of films depicting civic chaos and destruction, and these films were invariably downbeat or at least cautionary. (Even "The Day After Tomorrow" was about the threat of global warming.) In those years, within the context of a brainless action movie, you simply could not show an American landmark getting annihilated. People wouldn't stand for it.

Only an audience that feels invulnerable can enjoy watching on screen the wholesale destruction of its civilization and not take it as a threat. A cloud has lifted. It's safe to be happy and brainless ag"2012" may be Hollywood's first post-post-9/11 movie.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

The Imperial Walker

Page 178 (secondary English)

The Imperial Walker is extracted from a book entitled “The Empire Strikes Back” written by Donald F.Glut.

The story is organized around the following themes : bravery ,friendship, sadness, war and spaceships.

Luke Skywalker crashes with his space ship, which is in flames. Before leaving the space ship, he grabs a harpoon gun and a mine. He walks towards the walker, fires with the harpoon in his underbelly, climbs on the cable, plot the mine and rapidly descend down the cable. He felt down on the snow , and became unconscious while the walker explodes.

I liked the story because there is lots of action and suspense. In just two pages the reader is plunged in a full fledged story.

Watch the original trailer of the Empire Strikes Back on : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage & v=3oM7n8lr-Lw