#Why did the author choose the narrator he did in “Helen O'Loy” and “Flowers for Algernon”?
8.#Ideas often take precedence over characterization in SF stories. Illustrate this using two of the assigned readings.9.#SF stories often turn things around so that we see them in a new way. Describe how this technique is used in two of the assigned readings.10.#Since SF stories can be set in any place or time, most begin by establishing the setting. Illustrate how this is done in four of the assigned readings.11.#By setting stories on other planets or using other races, the author is often holding a mirror up to our society or to human psychology. What is Asimov saying about us in “Nightfall”?12.#Science fiction stories often have to deliver a lot of information to the reader, but don't want to deliver it in a tedious way (i.e. as a dry lecture). Describe and illustrate the techniques used to do this in four of the assigned readings.
