Essays about: "space fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 44 essays containing the words space fiction.

  1. 1. Recreating the aesthetic experience of Orwell’s book nineteen eighty four as a Tabletop roleplaying rule set : A systemic perspective on rules as the aesthetic space in Oceania 2084

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Johan Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : tabletop roleplaying games; abstraction; game design; design process; semiotics; iterative design; aesthetics; symbols;

    Abstract : By examining the results of an iterative design process, specifically a tabletop roleplaying game, Oceania 2084, this thesis aims to formulate a generalizable design process applicable when translating a work of fiction into a ruleset. The object that was translated into a ruleset was the book Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell in 1949. READ MORE

  3. 2. Nature as an uncontrolled space in George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-four' and Aldous Huxley’s 'Brave New World'

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jonna Hugsén; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper suggests that dystopian fiction should receive more attention within the environmental advocacy space. Despite the genre’s ability to provoke the reader, it is rarely interpreted in an environmental context. READ MORE

  4. 3. Trainable Region of Interest Prediction: Hard Attention Framework for Hardware-Efficient Event-Based Computer Vision Neural Networks on Neuromorphic Processors

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik

    Author : Cina Arjmand; [2023]
    Keywords : Artifical Intelligence; Machine Learning; Neuromorphic Engineering; Computer Vision; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Neuromorphic processors are a promising new type of hardware for optimizing neural network computation using biologically-inspired principles. They can effectively leverage information sparsity such as in images from event-based cameras, and are well-adapted to processing event-based data in an energy-efficient fashion. READ MORE

  5. 4. “The Answer to the Great Question” : The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Narrative Worldmaking 

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Marina Allbäck; [2022]
    Keywords : Science fiction; cognitive narratology; narrative worldmaking; components of the genre; time; space; characters; The Hitchhiker’s Guide; Douglas Adams;

    Abstract : Abstract Cognitive narratology constitutes the study of mind-related aspects of storytelling embracing the nexus of narrative and mind. Theorists in the sphere of cognitive narratology believe that the mental capacities of the reader provide basis for narrative experience involving him or her in the process of co-creation of narrative worlds. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Dissatisfaction of Utopia in Iain M. Banks's Culture Novels

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Björn Carlsten; [2022]
    Keywords : utopia; science-fiction; Iain Banks; the Culture; teaching;

    Abstract : The Culture is a utopian civilization that features in the science-fiction novels of Iain M. Banks that has some claim to be as comprehensively satisfactory and universal in its appeal as possible. READ MORE