Ryan Wien's Blogs

  Sketch One The year is 2030. The kind of gift I would want to get is the one for my family. The gift I would want to get is to buy a house in Vail Colorado. I bought one of those mountain houses and it would be on a hill. It would be a gift for them, for the ages and as a retirement present for them. I did my holiday shopping through amazon prime and target. I am more involved with my Jewish heritage, as I am celebrating Hanukkah. The job I have is to work for a medical VR company. I am doing very well there and have accomplished a lot out of it. I live in a one-bedroom apartment in California or Seattle. It has a kitchen and is functional, it may not be a mansion or a palace of my dreams. I like it because it is comfortable and makes me happy. Humans have experienced a massive climate change, where some parts on earth are no longer livable. The oceans are polluted beyond repair. Corals that did ten years ago are bleached and cannot be saved. Insider trading is a quite common thing,

  I find this story to be one of the most interesting takes on science. The ability to make concerts illegal is fascinating. It is a very similar thing to footloose. Also, there is some contrast between what is going now and in the book. The is that public gatherings are prohibited. Even though the book was written years before Covid-19, there is still a virus that takes it out there.  Also, the book talks about the times before and how it is hard to remember that. Okay, is it just me or did this book predict the future. What the heck? People nowadays do not remember the times before because things were better back then and the economy was better. Even the fact that online deliveries are in this book, is just more crazier. Today, more people use Uber eats or Doordash to get there if they cannot go to the supermarket. Also, there are drones that make the deliveries. It shows the no contactless order’s that people make today. I do not think that the author would have ever predicted that

After hearing through all 12 audiobooks, is what I think they are called. Any who I noticed a fantastic change of pace than just reading through a book. Instead a monologous reads this, as it is not a short story or book. No, it is something more or something greater than the sum of its parts. It is a radio show, yay.  Although that’s not to say I got bored after hearing the 8th audio reading because his voice was so boring, like really boring. So, this blog is not the average blog I do. This is a blog about hearing about another science fiction book, let’s begin. When hearing the dude speak, it was very profound. Almost like I was watching Citizen Kane or one Orson Welles' War of the World’s reads. Even though there are different versions of Guide to The galaxy, they all follow a guy named Arthur Dent. The plot follows the destruction of earth by aliens but don’t worry this one is different. As the plot thickens it turns out that the earth was a giant supercomputer, what. I know,

When reading another one of Margert Atwood, I noticed that her books relate a lot to natural disasters. It seems to look like that she focuses on not just gender as a topic, but the environment. Her books show that the environment should be taken care of. In this book, it takes place after a post-apocalyptic event that happens, although there are moments of the present day.  I was also interested in how the author describes the dangers behind corporate power. In this world, corporations re-configured where people should live. In fact, later on corporations become like gated communities, a universe that is surrounded by the dystopian world Atwood creates. Also, corporate greed is what causes an apocalyptic world to go in the future.  Interesting enough the book is also about the dangers of technology. Much of the technology that is described tells that the advancements lead to problems down the line. For example, the book involves transgenics, people who do not know I will explain. It

  The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian future as women are subjugated and are slaves in this universe. Many of the women are forced to reproduce children. People who disagree with the government are killed on the spot. When reading the setting and tone, it tells of a society where women are subjugated, like not allowed to read or write. In most dystopias futures, world is full of totalitarianism. An example is the book 1984. As I kept on reading the book by Marget Adwood, I realized the tone is very bleak and desolate. When the United States collapses, Gilead takes over as the government and it shows the dangers of this. The book is also a work of feminism, as it tries to explain what could happen if people are not given rights. The show and the book are very different. While the show takes place in modern day society. In the book, it takes place in the 1980’s. Although the same government and plot happens in the book. Handmaid’s tale has a world where newspapers and the press are censor

  I was stunned when reading this. I was horrified by the events that happened in the book. For example, alien creatures that do not look normal. It felt like the short story was filled with terrifying moments like this one. I also was very conflicted about the themes related to the short story. Almost like I was dealing with the consequences that happened in the book, like how you make choices in an RPG video game. As well as being creeped out that males are impregnated with a baby.  A connection I was able to make with the book Handmaid's Tale. In that book, surrogate reproduction happens a lot because society has diminished in population; Bloodchild shows how an alien species cannot have children of their own. They help from the human species. The elements I was able to connections is with sex roles in the book. The main character has to carry an alien baby. I noticed that the author puts a feminist's role into the work.  In this short story, the author challenges the femini