Saving the World
Day 6,004, 07:26
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by Pfenix Quinn
The Parish Review
Once more into the breach...
Every sci-fi story worth its ironic salt features an older scientist and/or group leader and his adult daughter. The father-leader-scientist has uncovered a terrible truth. Or revealed a terrifying and previously unknown secret. Or discovered an unknown world of beauty and mystery which threatens to unravel the consensus reality.
Having been pre-occupied all those formative years with his Great Work, he's often a bit of shit as a dad.
The daughter stands in for mother, for lover, and metaphorically speaking, is also both son and daughter, evoking all the ancient Egyptian archetypes for the One who must grapple with being godlike whilst simultaneously having been abandoned by the devilish god.
She always saves the world by both accepting and rejecting the father's wisdom. As we all do.
Vol.1, No.5, Day 6005
"The engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent." -- Ada Lovelace, August 1843
Once more into the breach...
Every sci-fi story worth its ironic salt features an older scientist and/or group leader and his adult daughter. The father-leader-scientist has uncovered a terrible truth. Or revealed a terrifying and previously unknown secret. Or discovered an unknown world of beauty and mystery which threatens to unravel the consensus reality.
Having been pre-occupied all those formative years with his Great Work, he's often a bit of shit as a dad.
The daughter stands in for mother, for lover, and metaphorically speaking, is also both son and daughter, evoking all the ancient Egyptian archetypes for the One who must grapple with being godlike whilst simultaneously having been abandoned by the devilish god.
She always saves the world by both accepting and rejecting the father's wisdom. As we all do.
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Sorry, but you dont Know nothing about Sci-FI
These are some books that do not agree with your idea of science fiction
1 Dune by Frank Herbert
2 1984 by George Orwell
3 Foundation (Trilogy) by Isaac Asimov
4 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
5 Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
🙂 Five of my favorites, for sure.
Nice challenge. Let's see..
Dune and Foundation do have heroic female characters who are daughter world savers, though it's true they are not exactly the primary hero.
Dune also mirrors the meme in a very strong way, with a Mother obsessed with the Great Work while her son must play god in order to save the world.
In Foundation, Seldon's quasi-adopted heir, Gaal Dornick, is male in the novel but female in the recent television series. Given the wildness and weirdness involved, and the archetypal motif, that role works just as well in either gender. There is also the Arkady Darell character, a great heroine who helps her father discover the location of the Second Foundation.
The other 3 books, in my opinion, echo the motif in modified ways...
In Androids, Rachel Rosen is an android posing as the daughter of Eldon, the "mad scientist" who created human-like androids.
In Fahrenheit, Clarisse, an outcast, introduces Montag to the "real" world of beauty and meaning, saving him from the dread and boredom of his marriage, his job and his society.
In 1984, if we stretch the analysis a bit, one might argue that Winston Smith is a very generic, almost androgynous, "everyman" character who has been emasculated by society and of course is having to deal with the poor "parenting" of the worst father ever, Big Brother. There is also Julia, who plays a role somewhat similar to Clarisse's in Fahrenheit, encouraging WInston to celebrate a sense of jouissance in the face of a dull, gray reality.
From this perspective all novels, not just science fiction ones, have the same structure.
It is a farily universal motif. I just notice it a lot of sci-fi stuff especially.
No feedback about 6k day event? I'm disappointed.
Ah! You just have to read between the lines...
Admin-Plato is our mad scientist father / big other, who of course has abandoned us in his quest for how to monetize this rather shitty game. We are all his children. The Day 6000 event challenged us, albeit in a sad, tired way (typical of this Dad), to be heros.
The real challenge then, in this alternate universe, is to __actually__ complete the journey and bring joy to eRepublik, saving the world of players from boredom!
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I want one of those nuke ray guys! 😃
my exposure to great sci-fi is limited to 1950s TV and movies, and old time radio shows like Dimension X and Inner Sanctum.. a lot of that is common storylines with a futuristic overlay.
struggling writers like L Ron Hubbard sucked at westerns before turning his mediocre imagination and writing skills toward the sky. others like youngsters Issac Asimov and Ray Bradbury took us to the moon and beyond in really good stories that grabbed ya.
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List of articles for endorsement ❤️
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/list-of-articles-for-endorsement--2778675
While I realize it is much more than a sci fi novel, Starship Troops is my favorite.
2nd would be The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Both awesome imho.