Can Sci-Fi Predict Reality?
- Teresita "Angela" Terga
- Feb 9
- 10 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
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Would you agree that Sci-Fi writers create plausible, realistic scenarios and worlds? I created a utopian society based on realistic probabilities of a nuclear apocalypse. "Utopia" is about a society deep inside a tepui striving to reconstruct a social order without the negative aspects of our civilization. How would they do it? What would a dogma-free society look like? First, they practice the mind's powers. We only use a fraction of our intelligence. How will they develop their mental abilities? What will they teach their children? What will be their rules?
Is it not about "if" but "when"? Writing scifi can be cathartic
where would you find the refuge to survive a nuclear apolypse?
I grew up teaching kids how to write essays and stories. We would have never written a scifi story that includes reality as a nuclear apocalypse up to the 4-5 grade. But once they are in 6-8 grades and beyond, kids know 'everything.' And actualy they do. Butthey do not understand. It is very easy to turn a child this age into whatever his mind master wants...that is ...until ...and if they learn to think for themselves.
Thus the war on books!
Read to the end to see the list of sci-fi movies and books based on building a post-apocalyptic society based on the principles of keeping nature safe and building community
Writers do grow up; I hope I have! We don't just learn to write by writing and teach writing, we develop our ow style and repertoire.
I write magical realism because my work is grounded in reality (although what is really real, right?). I like to tell stories nonlinearly. It's more fun that way, and harder. In every story I create, there is always an element of the supernatural — because we are supernatural beings.
Teaching was a tremendous benefit to my imagination and creativity. Child imagination is like no other, and by the time they got to me at the intermediate level, 4-8 grades, they still had it in them. We created all kinds of scenarios—and with every story a play.
One of the reasons I left teaching and embraced pedagogy was to pursue doing because, as the adage goes, "those who can't do, teach." This is true if based on the inability of underpaid, overworked teachers to pursue the connections and funding for their Art or Discipline (like film and Music) that will make them visible enough to enter the market competitively. All those lacking the connections and funding to get to the next level in their career easily turn to 'Teaching' and the rest is history.
Someone said that "A person with a BS or higher should earn more than a living wage, especiually those with as much responsibility as teachers. They should be ablet o pursue home ownership and or a small business venture for retirement not live paycheck to paycheck to accommodate the high cost of living forced upon the population by fake money in a fake democracy." I tend to agree.
I chose to major in elementary education when I had no idea that there was the seed of a writer in me wanting to burst out since childhood. I valued stability the most, as I should as a mother. But beyond being a serf of the state, teachers never get enough cheese on the toast to break through on their own and leave teaching for a higher calling, there being one.
I believe Education should have a purpose that accounts for human development in a social stratagem.
But beyond the product being created, what I love most about coaching Writing and Reading at any level at any stage of a pupil's life is seeing the satisfaction writing produces in them. I currently tutor Literacy from the Intermediate to the Adult stages of development for diverse purposes. I also teach screenwriting.
I believe Education should have a purpose that accounts for human development in a social stratagem.
Writing is cathartic; it is a renewal of our psyche, it is our unconscious mind becoming conscious. When we accomplish this willingly and witness our own process of creation, we learn to harness our creativity further.
I feel immense satisfaction when I write my novels and screenplays. They accomplish a dream from deep within. I live this dream in the writing. This dream is not mine. I tcomes from God within.
My advice to those wanting to accomplish a lhigher level of literacy for thie studies or career goals, is to make sure they teach and do. Not just do, not just teach.
Teaching reading and writing is an art that has nothing to do with whether the teacher is a good writer or reader. It has to do with the method and the goal set forth from the beginning of reltations between teacher and student.
To help you develop the art of writing and/or reading critically, one must answer to certain pressures. Reading to Write or Writing to Read? What about Thinking about the reading and applying it to writing?
There is a connection between writing to read that is aways reciprocal. Reading and writing go together but not everyone who loves reading loves to write as well.
It's easy to become discouraged after a negative query or critique, and when someone just doesn't 'get' or 'like' YOUR writing. Don't worry, just improve on your own style, refine it. Don't try to write like anyone else. A loud inner voice says a lot and gets the attention of the audience if the audience is right. To be loud, you must have an angle, a way of narrating that which you want to express without fear.
Don't worry. Keep writing sci-fi.
I am optimistic that my book Utopia, its screenplays, and the soon-to-be-published in Spanish book, "Taharai, la mujer araña de Amazonia. Desde Utopía" Taharai the Amazonian Spider Woman, From Utopia. will reach a greater audience and get into the hands of readers and viewers of magical realism.
The next book of the series, "From Utopia, after the holocaust of Humanity," also qualifies for the magical realism bravado elements of supernatural, social criticism, nonlinearity, and realism. Utopia may also be considered science fiction because it creates a future Earth in the deepest part of the Amazon Basin, almost a different planet. But the Utopians will one day venture out and restart again on Earth, or so they wish.
Edited and republished a few times, by me, a no-no, I suppose, in literary circles, or is it? This tale has evolved from a short story into a short film and a pilot screenplay for a series. And instead of stemming from the novel, such was written after the premiere of Spyderwoman.
Writing to support yourself is not easy. That's another way that women are repressed.
Writing and editing articles with or without the help of the web and Grammarly is another way I've learned the trick of writing copy.
But writing a screenplay was learned through an MFA in creative writing at Full Sail.
Afterwards, when I saw that there were 0 to 0.1% chances of making a living writing screenplays from home, I started writing blogs and articles and pursued a master's program in Media Management at Arkansas State, where I learned the value of media and how to manage media marketing.
After hundreds of hours writing blogs and articles for others, I decided to start publishing books and have had three authors onboard. I also started writing nonfiction books, such as. "How to 'Write a Novel the Holistic Way," "What authors should know about copyright law," and "Write Your Memoirs, Write what you lived."
Through my publishing work, I had the opportunity to learn how to practice Peace as the publisher and translator of Keywords for Peace, a very important book on how to practice Peace through our thoughts and reflections and our words and actions, because Peace is a practice you have to work on.
Click this link to book us for a Peace Talk & Art-Workshop at your convenience. Free to everyone. Learn to practice peace by creating conscious art.
Or, go here: Speaker/Facilitator: Peace is a Practice, it takes muscle to live a peaceful life within and without. We all have our buttons people and the media push and get us worked up.
The US Institute of Peace hosts events and has so called experts on peace matters per region. Let's wish peace workers success. download the World Peace Index here. https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GPI-2021-web-1.pdf
Really, what about the manufacture, marketing, and sales of War?
War is the most lucrative business of all?
War!! Write sci-fi for peace
HOW DANGEROUS IS THE WORLD based on reality not on sci-fi writings?
Sci-fi works similar to my self-published and self-edited book, Utopia, will make you question the increasing likelihood of a nuclear apocalypse and the need to address this threat on a daily. As this World Peace article claims, The World is more than dangerous. Not to be the bearer of unpleasantries, but if you have ever felt like you are walking through a landmine, guess what? You are. We all are. That’s a fact of life most humans can figure out before the age of 15. How sad is that! What have we done to ourselves? Sci-fi then becomes reality.
And by then, the bad guys will have been pointed out, identified, and a justification found. The pictures planted in our head even before our birth play out as we journey through our time on this dimension, unable to see beyond dualism.
Will War then continue on and on, along with innumerable natural disasters that befall the world? Sounds like the Apocalypse, right?
HOW WILL LIFE ON EARTH SURVIVE WHEN ATOMIC NUCLEI SPLIT APART OR COME TOGETHER? HAVE SCIFI WRITERS PUBLISHED ANY WORKS ON THE SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES AFTER A NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE THAT REFLECTS THE AVOIDANCE OF A SOCIETY THAT CREATES THE MONSTER?
How likely are we to survive a million megatons of TNT?
To put it into perspective, a 2017 article in the tech site Alphr, quotes a study which concludes that: “With just 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs, 20 million would immediately die, five million tons of smoke would hit the stratosphere, and we’d enter nuclear winter. Global temperatures drop, and agriculture would struggle, causing famine and yet more deaths.
A 2012 study projected that a 100-bomb nuclear war would cause two billion people to starve.”
Whether fission, fusion, or a combination of both, atomic or hydrogen, a nuclear apocalypse looms forebodingly over our present and future. Just imagine for a second being one of the survivors of the ecocide.
What would the next chapter of human society look like? What would you propose we can do differently next time around? Utopia is a book written by a former teacher who saw the need to change the narrative of the hero of a thousand masks, to that of the hero within, unmasked. Yes, we follow the leader and worship idols, but once we become aware of that fallacy we can overcome duality.
WILL NEW AGE MOVEMENTS AND MINDFUL AWARENESS DEVELOP WORLD PEACE?
Could there be a world without black and white, right or wrong, good or bad?
Truth, Wisdom, and above all, Compassion, the works of the One which abides in All and in Each One of US, is Peace, brings peace, talks peace, and leads us into peace. Let's obey.
Individually, we are the universal consciousness which acts on these principles.
HOW LIKELY is a nuclear apocalypse?
What will happen to life on earth if kilotons and megatons of TNT are released into the atmosphere? What would a new societal order based on Peace look like? Haven’t we had enough examples of how we CAN NOT expect to create peace with war? Who are we kidding? Not kids for sure. They know!
Live the word of God! God lives through the word in you.
Practice keywords for peace.
Give Peace a chance!
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Here are seven post-apocalyptic stories SIMILAR TO UTOPIA where survivors rebuild a civilization that is spiritual, philosophical, or mythic rather than technological. In these narratives, people try to rebuild meaning, ethics, and belief systems after the collapse of the old world.
1. A Canticle forLeibowitz (1959)
Author: Walter M. Miller Jr.
After nuclear war destroys civilization, a Catholic monastic order preserves fragments of scientific knowledge. Monks copy ancient documents and slowly help civilization rediscover learning.
Spiritual theme: faith safeguarding knowledge through dark ages.
2. Station Eleven (2021)
Based on the novel by Emily St. John Mandel
After a pandemic wipes out modern society, traveling performers preserve Shakespeare and art. Communities rebuild culture through storytelling and performance.
Spiritual theme: art as a sacred thread connecting humanity.
3. Parable of the Sower (1993)
Author: Octavia E. Butler
A young woman named Lauren creates a new belief system called Earthseed while society collapses around her.
Spiritual theme: humanity shaping its destiny through a new philosophy.
4. The Book of Eli (2010)
A lone traveler protects what may be the last surviving copy of the Bible after nuclear war.
Spiritual theme: sacred texts preserving moral guidance.
5. Riddley Walker (1980)
Author: Russell Hoban
Centuries after a nuclear war, people live in tribal societies and tell myths about the lost technological world, which they no longer understand.
Spiritual theme: technology becomes mythology.
6. The Postman (1997)
Directed by Kevin Costner
A drifter revives hope simply by restoring the postal service. Communities begin to rebuild shared identity and moral purpose.
Spiritual theme: symbols and stories rebuild civilization.
7. The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993)
Author: Starhawk
After ecological collapse, a community in San Francisco creates a peaceful society based on spirituality, ecology, and cooperation.
Spiritual theme: ecological and spiritual harmony replacing industrial society.
✅ Common idea in these stories
When civilization collapses, survivors eventually realize that technology alone cannot rebuild humanity. What must also be rebuilt are:
shared beliefs
cultural memory
ethical systems
spiritual identity
🌍 A fascinating pattern in the writing of scifi storys of post apocalyptic content
Many of these stories echo the historical cycle that followed the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, when monasteries and oral traditions preserved knowledge through Europe’s Dark Ages.
The new civilization becomes a hybrid of science, spirituality, and ecological intelligence—almost like a planetary consciousness society.
The blog post reflects on the author's journey from teaching writing to embracing a career in writing and publishing. It emphasizes the importance of encouraging critical thinking in students, particularly those in middle school, as they begin to develop their own understanding of the world. The author discusses the challenges educators face, including low pay and lack of support, which often leads them to pursue alternative careers. The narrative explores the author's passion for magical realism and the cathartic nature of writing, highlighting how storytelling can be a means of personal and societal renewal. The post also addresses the looming threat of a nuclear apocalypse and the need for a shift towards peace and community-building in literature and life. Furthermore, the author shares insights on the reciprocal relationship between reading and writing, encouraging aspiring writers to refine their unique voices despite criticism. The blog concludes with a list of seven post-apocalyptic stories that emphasize rebuilding society through spirituality and community rather than technology, underscoring the need for shared beliefs and ethical systems in the aftermath of societal collapse.
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