Atomic Age II

A PowerPoint by me (Tristan K. Hampton-Hall)

Science Fiction! new genre born from the atomic age

people were scared of commies and bombs

robot says hiso futuristic

he’s having fun

vrooom

don’t want that

scary

that’d be bad

like really bad

Novels!

many science fiction novels were publishedIncluding ones by the following

Robert Heinlein, Have Spacesuit – Will TravelKurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

E.E. Smith, the Lensman series

Nice mustache dude

Smells like grandpa

Blacketer has this blazer

MORE Novels! Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

Philip K. Dick, some books in the 50s, but first “good” one was in 1961

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

he just turned his swag on

his cat doesn’t like him

his cat does like him

AND YOUR GOD, ISAAC ASIMOV!

WROTE OVER 500 BOOKS!!!

I, ROBOT

THE FOUNDATION SERIES

GALACTIC EMPIRE

SWEET SIDEBURNS BROGODSIMOV

Written in 1956 for the November issue of Science Fiction Quarterly

Comics!Science fiction also spread over to comics, like Flash Gordon (which had been out since the 30s), Buck Rogers (1928!), Weird Science, among others

he gets the girl

lady’s man

swaggalaggin outfit

These are comics

Pretty much

neato

Movies!

Considered the golden age of science fiction movies

Were pretty cheesy, and often formulaic

Themes were often the concerns of the time, including infiltration, atomic war, and invasion

The War of the Worlds and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea both won Academy Awards

tony

ooh, shiny

Movies of the 50s

classics

cool special effects

BEST MOVIE EVER!!!

ALIENS!

ZOMBIES!

ED WOOD!

oh my

Fallout sheltersBecause people were afraid of dem commies, they built fallout shelters

People were mad paranoid

Thank You!

Plus 10 for multicultural

¡Gracias!

! شكًرا