In Invasion of The Body Snatchers, a small town Doctor, Miles Bennell, returns home to find strange occurrences in the town. People in town are claiming that particular family members are imposters that match their original in all ways, except for the strange difference that their emotion is gone. They are less human. Miles is a skeptic as he investigates this phenomena and consults a psychiatrist who he agrees with that the problem is a mass hysteria in town, and that nothing is wrong. Eventually Miles finds out that body snatchers from outer space are the cause of this and he escapes town only after all of its population, including his girlfriend have been replaced.
sDr. Maxis and his scientist team, Group 935, were tasked with creating an army of super soldiers and new technology for the government project christened "Der Riese" or "The Giant". In his experiments, Maxis used Element 115 to create the zombies. The zombies, however, couldn't be controlled and would always be killed when they went berserk. While this was going on, Richtofen was testing 115 on living test subjects to create his super soldiers at a Siberian facility.
Once he returned home he began to write his book. His daughter was then going to get married. The day after his daughter’s wedding in 1967, Billy is kidnapped by two-foot-high aliens who resemble upside-down toilet plungers, who he says are called Tralfamadorians. They abduct him in their flying ship to the planet Tralfamadore, where they force him to mate with a movie actress named Montana Wildhack. Montana, like Billy, had been brought from Earth to live under a dome in a zoo where Tralfamadorians can observe extraterrestrial curiosities.
Next a meteor flies overhead and causes a total loss of power. The residents then start to panic and accuse neighbors of being aliens. Ultimately they become so irrational that they kill Pete Van Horn. This explains that the title is ironic because the people were waiting for the monsters to arrive when really the monsters were already
In the second expedition, not knowing that the Martians were not immune to chicken pox the explores accidently bring the disease and kill all the Martians. Bradbury did this to again like in Fahrenheit 451 convey that technology is capable of destroying a society and their past. Lastly Bradbury in one of the chronicles creates a character named Walter Gripp and he is one of the last persons on earth, so he tries to get in contact with women and we he goes to see her he sees that she is fat and ugly so he runs away and decides that he rather be alone. Just like in Fahrenheit 451 this shows that the advancement of technology can make people less social and
Kevin Crowley 12/12/13 The Hot Zone The Hot Zone starts off with a man named Charles Monet who is a man studying the highly deadly and mostly unknown virus called Ebola. He enters a cave called Kitum Cave on the mountain of Elgon in Kenya on a science expedition. What he doesn’t notice is that he has contracted Marburg the sister virus of Ebola which is still deadly but a little less than Ebola. As he got on the plane to go back to where he was staying he started throwing up something called black vomit which is a vomit that mostly is composed of the virus and his stomach innards. As he lands he is taken to Nairobi Hospital were his condition worsens by the minute.
But on the small moon Eros where the IF headquarters is located Ender feels like a monster. Killing billions of creatures without knowing he was doing it. Enders sister is able to convince him that what he did was necessary to save everybody. She also convinced him to move to a colony planet with her and become governor. Peter remained on Earth and became Hegemon, a worldwide
After Jake breaks out of solitary confinement by the humans, Jake risks everything by taming the Great Leonopteryx, a feat only five have done before him, to win the trust of the Omaticaya. Jake becomes the Toruk Makto (Rider of the Last Shadow) to unite the Na’vi
The Adromeda Strain The Andromeda Strain The basic situation of the novel is that bacteria is brought to the earth from space by a U.S. Military space probe looking for new weapons. After it comes to earth it kills all the people of the small town of Piedmont in Arizona except for a baby named Jamie Ritter and an old man named Peter Jackson and the bacterium threatens to wipe out all living creatures in its path unless a vaccine is invented to protect against it. Then the scientists can’t agree with the army and the President over the best way to fight the virus. There are lots of conflicts between the characters on the Wildfire team. Stone has a low opinion of Hall’s ability to help and thinks that Burton is a slob.
Set on the planet Pandora, Avatar is a sci-fi story of a mercenary-backed corporation’s attempt to confiscate and mine the land inhabited by humanoid aliens known as the Na’vi. Enter Jake Sully, the paraplegic U.S. marine protagonist who joins the science and anthropology wing of the operation as a substitute navigator for his deceased twin brother’s avatar. Early in the film, we discover that the avatar is an expensive high-tech clone that allows its user to temporarily experience and subsequently infiltrate the Na’vi community. After a series of unexpected events during his first avatar excursion, Jake finds himself living amongst the Na’vi clan known as the Omaticaya where he becomes an apprentice to the female tribe member Neytiri. From that point, the film revolves around the internal and external conflicts that arise as Jake bonds with the Omaticaya and struggles between his mission and his allegiance to the aliens.