“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows, or gorillas” remarked Ray Bradbury, author of the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 and many other works, “when this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room”. A suspension of disbelief is mandatory when reading science fiction. The realm of the genre travels from the stars, to the pageant of politics, to biologically modified animals. Science fiction contains a myriad of subgenres that split into every idea or place possible, and, more often than not, impossible. Jaunting throughout the entire cosmos of science fiction is the Marxist Theory. Specifically, a vivisection between spirituality and materialism. In this case, spirituality is represented by a being or society’s mental state and or religion. Materialism is the physical state of these individuals and societies. One of the best examples that is an overlying tone in all of science fiction was written by Isaac Asimov in his novel Foundation: “‘Violence,’ came the retort, ‘is the last refuge of the incompetent’” (77). Not only is Asimov a legend in the …show more content…
According to Peter Clecak, media is used specifically for the people who have a lower intellectual level. These people are middle class businessmen and factory workers, who exist within their own spheres (278). Without denial, Foundation flaunts this theme in the religious system of the Foundation, the Periphery. The Priesthood controls entire planets based on the fear of the unknown. Exploiting the workers of ship yards and traders alike to spread their reach with new technologies and space-ready ships. The parallels are more startling between the two, real and literary worlds, because the targeted class is the middle class. Rulers of the planet Anacreon realize the grip that the Foundation has on their world, concluding that the King must