The Science fiction stories Are those based on possible scientific or technical advances that could be achieved in the future. It differs from the genre of Fantastic literature In which everything happened is the result of the imagination of the author. In science fiction are based the possible technological advances and have a scientific basis.
It is also known as literature of anticipation, as some authors anticipated the emergence of inventions, as was the case of Jules Verne with his submarines and spacecraft.
Although this genre is based on technological advances, it can be developed in any past, present or future, or even in universes and parallel times. Also, the characters vary within the range of humans to humanoid forms based on robots or even non-anthropomorphic creatures.
Similarly, the scenarios of these stories often vary between interstellar travel or hecatombs that cause genetic mutations in humans, and even the evolution of robots that take over the world.
5 science fiction stories for children and young people
1- My other self
It was a normal morning, I was in my bed but I knew something was not right. She was there. I do not know who he was, but he looked like me. Not only did he look like me, he spoke like me.
I asked his name, although he already knew the answer, and said mine. He was getting ready to go to school with my things, and I asked him what he was doing. She told me that my time was up, that it was time for me to retire and she took my place.
He said that if I was not good, my father would take me to the workshop, I did not know it was the workshop, but I would not stay to find out.
I ran out of the room and down the stairs. My father called me, but I had an angry voice, so I kept running out the back door and into the woods.
I do not know how long I was running, but I did not stop until I felt that the area I was in was not known. I sat under a tree to think about what had happened. I did not understand anything, who was the other girl, why she looked like me and why I was going to take my place.
I heard footsteps near me and I turned, and there was my father with his grimace and face of anger. He said he knew where to find me, how did he know? I had never been here before. Something made my eyes dim and I lost consciousness.
I woke up in my bed, it was morning again, everything had been a bad dream. I called my mother to tell her my nightmare and she calmed me down, I always did. When I told him, in a sweet voice, he told me that nothing was happening, but that I should behave better or my father would take me back to the workshop.
2- The virus
Long ago the earth is no longer the earthly paradise that was in its time. The overexploitation of resources has led human life to a limit situation.
The pollution of water by industries around the world has made us sick. The population has been decimated, but the politicians continue to maintain that everything is going well.
People crowd in the streets asking for food and water, but nobody gets anything to take to the mouth. The first world has become a sewer, so I do not want to imagine those countries that we left at the hand of God while we exploited their resources.
It has been a while since the hospitals should be full but nevertheless, the doctors seem calm and calm. There is something that is not going well here, something is happening.
Days pass and strange things begin to happen, you no longer hear people asking in the streets, there is tranquility, even silence. It had not happened for years.
I decide to take my radioactive mask and walk through what is left of the forest. It is strange, I would swear that the forest was closer, I only see heaps of land around me. When I look at one of them I see a corpse, but the corpse is green, and his eyes are bloodshot.
I try to get out of there as quickly as possible, I hear voices behind me, I turn around and have a gun. I try to raise my hands to show that I am not armed. My hands are no longer my hands, they are green now, they are the same color as the corpse. One of the uniformed men comes up to me, it's too late - he says - Goodbye.
3- Extraterrestrial Attack
I have not been on solid ground for years, I came on a mission to explore the galaxy in search of intelligent life.
But I think my fate is going to change, we have received a notice that they have found signs of life on a planet not far away, and we are the ones closest to us. At last I will feel the weight of gravity again!
I'm excited, I have everything packaged to leave this ship and not return to it in much, much, time. I just hope that the conditions of the planet allow us to live quietly.
As we approach, we see a kind of oval-shaped building that stands on the horizon and we head there. A humanoid form comes out of it as we descend from the ship.
It says something in a language we do not know, and none of our devices seems to be able to translate it. More humanoid forms begin to arrive to meet us, they are not so different from us!
But something changes in the environment, someone moves, someone takes out an unknown device. It's a weapon, the shots start flying in all directions and we run to the ship as fast as we can.
Only a third of the crew arrives at the ship. We will continue to look for another planet.
4- Roberto the Astronaut
Roberto was a very clever boy, but at school he got bored, they always explained the same things and never talked about interesting things.
One day she asked her teacher why she did not tell them about astronauts, and she answered that they were Chinese tales and that no one had ever made it to the moon. Roberto told him that he would be the first to do it, and the whole class laughed.
Roberto got down to work and made a space suit and took it to his school. But instead of getting the effect of admiration that was expected, they laughed at him. They said that with a disguise it would not reach the moon.
So Roberto was involved in the construction of a spaceship. For days and days he was working hard.
One day at the school he invited them to spend the afternoon at home to see how his spacecraft took off. That afternoon Roberto showed everyone that he would be the first to reach the moon.
5- Marix
Marix was a little Martian who wandered through the infinity of the universe. He was alone because no one else had accompanied him on his adventure.
He had thought that soon he would find someone to jump into the rings of Saturn and visit the three moons of Jupiter.
He was already in the vicinity of Alfa Centauri, when he saw a small ship similar to his own. He tried to send them a radio message, but all he got was an unintelligible message.
So he decided to follow them. For days and days he was following the ship along the galaxy receiving rare messages on his radio. They reached a planet with large masses of pink liquid around them and the ship landed near one of them.
Marix quickly put on her space suit and ran out of her ship. He was quickly surrounded by a bunch of bugs who spoke a language he did not understand. Fortunately, one of them brought a device that when turned on translated all the languages of the galaxy.
The wise man who had the device explained that when he was young he had traveled the galaxy to create a dictionary of all languages and was preparing another expedition, but that he was too old to undertake such an arduous journey, and asked if He wanted to continue with his homework.
Marix replied that he had been traveling for years and wanted to find a friend to play with because he was very bored. The sage told him that there would be no problem, and that as soon as he found someone, they would resume the expedition.
In a few days the sage returned to find Marix and told him that he had found someone to accompany him. Marix could not believe it, she was the most beautiful creature in the universe. And together they set out on the journey to recover all the languages of the galaxy.
References
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- KETTERER, David. New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature. Indiana University Press, 1974.
- HOAGLAND, Ericka; SARWAL, Reema (ed.) Science fiction, imperialism and the Third World: Essays on postcolonial literature and film. McFarland, 2010.