Monday 06 October 2008

Themes from Z for Zachariah

• nuclear war
• death
• lonliness
• murder/justified murder
• survival
• gender roles
• coming-of-age

Speculative Fiction

speculate: to wonder what would happen

fiction: made up story

speculative fiction: genre of literature that explores what would happen if…

• nuclear war was to break out in the US
• if the UK had been bombed during the Cold War
• the Nazis won WWII
• humans could travel through space
• aliens invaded the earth
• we could travel through time
• dinosaurs came back