Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature videos

Use online video to study the evolution of the science fiction and fantasy literary genre. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy skills .... simultaneously!

Use these History of World and European Literature videos entitled Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature to study the evolution of the science-fiction genre and see how science-fiction writers have portrayed the future.

Use our 2 online educational videos to survey the evolution of science fiction, from Voyage to the Moon, written in 1657, to acclaimed works of the 1970s. See how science fiction writers have portrayed rocket flight, time travel, and life on other planets. Writers discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Nevil Shute, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Philip Wylie.

Learning Objectives:

• Survey the evolution of the science-fiction genre, from Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyage to the Moon, written in 1657, to critically acclaimed works published in the 1970s.
• Learn how the emergence of nuclear power and other advances in science and technology altered public response to scientific conjecture.
• Explore how the futuristic settings of science-fiction works have encouraged writers to speculate about concepts like space warp and time travel, and the social implications of issues such as genetic engineering and germ warfare.
• Gain an understanding of how science-fiction themes continue to inspire the imagination and appeal to the conscience with insightful disclosures of what is scientifically possible in a vast and changing universe.

• Literature > European Literature > Science Fiction And Fantasy
• Ideas Take Flight (Runtime: 18:38)
• The Nuclear Age (Runtime: 19:34)