Project presentation

I'm doing my project about the links between science fiction and reality. Because science fiction speaks about how science can change the world without caring about technical details, it can be inspiring for scientists. There are a lot of examples, like Jules Verne's ideas on travelling to the moon or under the sea.

But science fiction tells us a lot about the hopes and fears of the society of the author. At the end of the nineteenth century, writers began to become a lot more worried about scientific issues ; at this time appeared Dr Frankenstein and his well-known monster.

That's the kind of links I'll try to show during my project. I've began by reading Rendezvous with Rama, which is an Arthur C. Clarke book about an alien object coming into the solar system. It deals with the behavior of human beings faced with the unknown and danger, from wonder to fear and violence.