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Majoritarian culture

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Majoritarian culture in science fiction takes a lot of world building and development to completely immerse the reader into the world. Bloodchild is about a human population that is immersed into this very alien yet somewhat recognizable in life on earth. Reading it, I was very uncomfortable which I assume is what Octavia intended. She makes it so unlike some scifi novels, the humans are not this holy grail that is come to save this dying planet. The aliens are just using them for gain against their will. Humans are depicted as such high and mighty people in some novels (possibly written by white men), so it’s interesting that a novel about invading an alien planet written by a poc woman would be a complete turn-around. It’s like the settlers have already gotten used to having this life as hosts for these aliens, which I believe minorities can relate to as well. It's sad since that's how some people's norms were growing up, but interesting that it is port...
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Space Opera

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Space Opera             For this week, I read Arthur C. Clarke’s The Star . It’s a story about a priest going on a space journey and discovering something that disproves and questions his faith completely. This story was written in 1959, so space travel was conceived, but the story describes us in the far future where we can travel lightyears and find old planets. Ironic, how you’d think back then we would be able to do that now in 2019.             The real irony of this story, is that the life on the planet they found ended then causing a supernova. This supernova was what the priest discovered to be the star of David when Jesus was born, thus starting a whole life of religious beliefs. The death of a human-like planet was the reason for so much happiness on Earth, and finally putting 2 and 2 together would be hard to handle, especially for a follower ...
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J-Horror and Vengeful Spirits

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J-Horror and Vengeful Spirits After finishing Haruki Murakami's  A Wild Sheep Chas e, it makes me realize how different our western horror culture is. I feel like because we’re so exposed to western horror stereotypes of slashers, monsters, etc, we always assume that the spirit is evil. There just always seems to be bad blood with ghosts and humans. I think this is due to our lack of culture with the passed compared to Asian culture. Western culture is all about shock value. They don’t normally leave you feeling dread or a huge disturbance. Most of the time it’s high descriptions of how someone is tortured, or how detailed the killer looks. J-horror contrasts this by making contemplate the story and the reality all together. In the story of Yuki-onna, she is seeming to be a very dangerous spirit but then spares the life of the younger lumberjack. Throughout you then wonder if she’s changed and can actually live a human life. However, it is shown that she r...
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