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Science Or Technology

    In this paper  im going to talk about the global situations that are be caused my Science and Technology. One thing that be said in the paper the is that global worming is one of the courses on the paper. There is many idea that the world far courses in the future.

● Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love (the book that contains the short story, “Us or Me”)
● Ian McEwan’s Solar (a novel that uses a brilliant, but corrupt, climate change researcher for its
main character)

● A close reading of the magazine issue (The New Yorker) that first published “Us or Me” in
1997. In this paper, you would look at advertising, and discuss current events from 1997 to see
how the portrayal of science might have challenged the readers of this magazine.

● Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This novel (and graphic novel
adaptation that we will read in class in excerpt) examines the nature of human identity and the
possibility of intelligent robots.

● Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark (a novel about virtual reality and terrorism); Generosity (a
novel about genetic engineering and brain chemistry and altruism; The Echo Maker (a novel
about a man with Capgras Syndrome, a condition where a patient thinks that all the people in
his or her life has been replaced by doubles); The Gold Bug Variations (a novel about discoveries
of molecular biology). Your instructor has done research on this author.


● Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

● Mary Shelley, Frankenstein – Concentrate on the science in the book.  2
● Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (A poem with a lot of 19th-century science)
● Thomas Pynchon, “Entropy” (A short story about physics)
● Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (A novel about physics and love)
● Caryl Churchill, A Number (cloning)