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Science Fiction
finally I will talk about science fiction in popular culture, there are many sci-fi books,
movies or animated series in modern pop culture, So I will talk two sci-fi pop culture that
I personally like
• first is Mobile Suit Gundam, it was created by yoshiyuki tomino and sunrise studio in 1979,
it was the first installment of the Gundam franchise. Mobile Suit Gundam set in futuristic
earth and colonized space, its tells a story about “Amuro Ray”, a fifteen years old boy
dragged on a war using a giant humanoid mecha called mobile suit between earth and
space colony after they declared independency from earth. It’s fully depict the situation
and drama in realism view on war
• the second one is Blade Runner, the film is a adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel “Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of
2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful
Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. Rick Deckard who’s a Blade Runner, police
unit organized to hunt and kill fugitive replicants agrees to hunt down a fugitive group of
advanced replicants escapes back to Earth. The film depict on what makes someone a
human and the existential crisis of the mortality of the artificial lifeform.