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Author Question: Laurie Halse Anderson sets her novel Fever 1793 (2000) during the yellow fever epidemic in ... (Read 412 times)

newyorker26

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Laurie Halse Anderson sets her novel Fever 1793 (2000) during the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and:
 
  a. has a cast of fictional characters.
  b. has fictional historical events, i.e., the events are false as well as the characters.
 
  c. has unique and nonfictional characters which adds to the authenticity of the novel.
  d. uses the protagonist in a manner that began a new trend.

Question 2

Some people think the first science fiction book was:
 
  a. A Princess of Mars (1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs in which the protagonist John Carter, after being teleported to Mars, battles his way across a planet filled with villains and ultimately wins the hand of Princess Deiah Tjoris.
  b. Mary Shelley's Frankensteina book that warned about tampering with science and the unknown.
  c. an excellent source of information on science fiction, Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (magazine) and Locus online which features the comprehensive Locus index to science fiction awards.
  d. H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895) in which time travel was firmly established as a convention in science


jlaineee

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b


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