Ezra is having the seniors do a unit on Science Fiction, but he especially wants to accentuate how vastly different books in the same genre can be. He has passed out four science fiction books randomly throughout the class, and he expects all of them to do a short presentation for the class reviewing the book. (Please keep in mind that these are based on real books, but I've doctored and abbreviated their plots quite a bit for setting and convenience).
Roll three 100-sided dice. The first die will indicate which book your character is reading. The second die will indicate how much of the book your character read. The third die will indicate how much your character liked the book, with 100 being "favorite book ever."
Rolled 1-25: Your book is Ember's Game (Ender's Game). This is a fictional science fiction book set in the far future, when the world of Below is having an interstellar war. A wildly intelligent Chimera freshling named Ember is sent into space to be trained to be a general in the next big battle, and she plays many video games intended to prepare her for war. However, by the end of the book, Ember discovers that she may not have been playing a game the whole time, and she just won the war for Below. Rolled 26-50: Your book is The Taker (The Giver). In this futuristic dystopian book, a young Goblin named Joe lives in a neutered society where everything is regulated, and nobody has any memories of the world beforehand. He is chosen as the person who will take on the memories of the past in order to be an advisor to the government. However, he finds out that the memories are more beautiful and dangerous than he could have imagined. Urged by his mentor, he decides to leave his society, which will cause everyone to remember the memories he has taken. Rolled 51-75: Your book is Sandbank (Dune). Written in heavy prose that can sometimes be hard to understand, it follows the story of a Grimm junior named Pawl, who has moved to the Swirling Storms desert with his family. The natives there believe Pawl is a powerful magic user, and see him as a religious figure. After his father's death, Pawl discovers that he is a great diviner, and takes his place as a leader in the culture. After a long passage of political struggle, Pawl ends up becoming the emperor of the desert. Rolled 76-100: Your book is Franken-kid (Frankenstein). Lauded as one of the first science fiction books ever written, this one is a true classic. A scientist, whose last name is Franken-geist, spends time researching the creation of life after the death of his mother. He succeeds, but creates the most hideous freshling ever seen, and flees in terror when it awakes. The freshling, known as Franken-geist's Franken-kid, is gentle and intelligent, and after some time Franken-geist gets to know the kid and adopts him as part of the family.
Username:One Little Jay Character's Name: Liath RP Response: Liath stood before the class his hand shaking a bit. He wasn't really ready to present his feeling on the book, more like he didn't want to anger anyone with his general dislike of the book. "Well, I read franken-kid. I even read most of it. I really tried to like this book, but I just couldn't. the kind of magic that would tamper with life and death is a perversion, it really isn't one to be messed with so right off the back I had a problem with this book. Then they bring this little kid to life who is supposedly super gross looking. So gross that he runs away from it. I think at this point in the book they should have just put the thing out of its misery. Only after it proves how smart and gentle it does this guy, who brought him into this world using magic he shouldn' have used, want anything to do with him. I think if you bring a freshling into this world it doesn't matter how ugly they are you have to accept that your choices resulted in this. You don't get to choose to not be their parent. Above all, you shouldn't make the kid prove themselves to you. That's just plain wrong." Liath was at this point al little red in the face from how heated he got. He then looked down and added, "but it was okay sci-fi."
Ezra is having the seniors do a unit on Science Fiction, but he especially wants to accentuate how vastly different books in the same genre can be. He has passed out four science fiction books randomly throughout the class, and he expects all of them to do a short presentation for the class reviewing the book. (Please keep in mind that these are based on real books, but I've doctored and abbreviated their plots quite a bit for setting and convenience).
Roll three 100-sided dice. The first die will indicate which book your character is reading. The second die will indicate how much of the book your character read. The third die will indicate how much your character liked the book, with 100 being "favorite book ever."
Rolled 1-25: Your book is Ember's Game (Ender's Game). This is a fictional science fiction book set in the far future, when the world of Below is having an interstellar war. A wildly intelligent Chimera freshling named Ember is sent into space to be trained to be a general in the next big battle, and she plays many video games intended to prepare her for war. However, by the end of the book, Ember discovers that she may not have been playing a game the whole time, and she just won the war for Below. Rolled 26-50: Your book is The Taker (The Giver). In this futuristic dystopian book, a young Goblin named Joe lives in a neutered society where everything is regulated, and nobody has any memories of the world beforehand. He is chosen as the person who will take on the memories of the past in order to be an advisor to the government. However, he finds out that the memories are more beautiful and dangerous than he could have imagined. Urged by his mentor, he decides to leave his society, which will cause everyone to remember the memories he has taken. Rolled 51-75: Your book is Sandbank (Dune). Written in heavy prose that can sometimes be hard to understand, it follows the story of a Grimm junior named Pawl, who has moved to the Swirling Storms desert with his family. The natives there believe Pawl is a powerful magic user, and see him as a religious figure. After his father's death, Pawl discovers that he is a great diviner, and takes his place as a leader in the culture. After a long passage of political struggle, Pawl ends up becoming the emperor of the desert. Rolled 76-100: Your book is Franken-kid (Frankenstein). Lauded as one of the first science fiction books ever written, this one is a true classic. A scientist, whose last name is Franken-geist, spends time researching the creation of life after the death of his mother. He succeeds, but creates the most hideous freshling ever seen, and flees in terror when it awakes. The freshling, known as Franken-geist's Franken-kid, is gentle and intelligent, and after some time Franken-geist gets to know the kid and adopts him as part of the family.
Username: Sara Siren Noire Character's Name: Yaruka RP Response: This book was difficult for Yaruka to read. Not because it was hard but because it was not easy for her to fathom a world where everything was so rigid and regulated....so bland and so....absent. She couldn't get very far before she had to stop and give her mind and heart a rest. While she could understand why some people would wish to forget certain things....why in the world would you want to forget everything about the world before you knew it? The magic of discovery and learning was gone! As she thought these things, she made notes for her presentation, highlighting in it that a world without memory of the history prior to their present was so small and narrow, lacking enrichment and the fulfillment of discovery. She focused on saying in her presentation that such a nerfed existence was so lackluster that it was hard to imagine anyone wanting to live in such a way unless it was all they ever knew from birth. Even though it was hard for her to get through without such strong feelings and she didn't get far, she wanted to continue to read it. It offered a different view that could teach a valuable lesson, however harsh it may be.
Ezra is having the seniors do a unit on Science Fiction, but he especially wants to accentuate how vastly different books in the same genre can be. He has passed out four science fiction books randomly throughout the class, and he expects all of them to do a short presentation for the class reviewing the book. (Please keep in mind that these are based on real books, but I've doctored and abbreviated their plots quite a bit for setting and convenience).
Roll three 100-sided dice. The first die will indicate which book your character is reading. The second die will indicate how much of the book your character read. The third die will indicate how much your character liked the book, with 100 being "favorite book ever."
Rolled 1-25: Your book is Ember's Game (Ender's Game). This is a fictional science fiction book set in the far future, when the world of Below is having an interstellar war. A wildly intelligent Chimera freshling named Ember is sent into space to be trained to be a general in the next big battle, and she plays many video games intended to prepare her for war. However, by the end of the book, Ember discovers that she may not have been playing a game the whole time, and she just won the war for Below. Rolled 26-50: Your book is The Taker (The Giver). In this futuristic dystopian book, a young Goblin named Joe lives in a neutered society where everything is regulated, and nobody has any memories of the world beforehand. He is chosen as the person who will take on the memories of the past in order to be an advisor to the government. However, he finds out that the memories are more beautiful and dangerous than he could have imagined. Urged by his mentor, he decides to leave his society, which will cause everyone to remember the memories he has taken. Rolled 51-75: Your book is Sandbank (Dune). Written in heavy prose that can sometimes be hard to understand, it follows the story of a Grimm junior named Pawl, who has moved to the Swirling Storms desert with his family. The natives there believe Pawl is a powerful magic user, and see him as a religious figure. After his father's death, Pawl discovers that he is a great diviner, and takes his place as a leader in the culture. After a long passage of political struggle, Pawl ends up becoming the emperor of the desert. Rolled 76-100: Your book is Franken-kid (Frankenstein). Lauded as one of the first science fiction books ever written, this one is a true classic. A scientist, whose last name is Franken-geist, spends time researching the creation of life after the death of his mother. He succeeds, but creates the most hideous freshling ever seen, and flees in terror when it awakes. The freshling, known as Franken-geist's Franken-kid, is gentle and intelligent, and after some time Franken-geist gets to know the kid and adopts him as part of the family.
Username: nasaiki Character's Name: Frey RP Response: When class started Frey wasn't sure if he could dedicate the time to read the whole book. After all his part time work was picking up and he really wanted to help out at the salon. However he needed more electives and he really did like reading. Luckily the book was quite interesting and Frey was able to get a good chunk of it done and fill the rest of the plot by watching the movie and looking at a summary online. It was a bit of a cheat but he had every intention of finishing the book, especially because there was just something he liked about the book. Maybe it was due to his litch blood.
Necromancy had never seemed like the terror everyone said it was. The thought that even though franken-Geist had created what he thought was a monster, he still came around and did the right thing and a bond grew probably also had a huge impact on him liking the story as well. Of course as he read it, his eyes kept flickering to his remnant. Yeah he might have several reasons for liking the novel.
As for his presentation, he gave a summary of the book and focused on family often came from the unlikeliest places and even though it worked out in the end you should make sure to research and think of about the morality of what you were doing. It might not be scary to you but it might not end up the way you think either.
