Question 7

• are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.

There wasn’t a specific place that I think was beautiful because the setting of the book first took place on earth then the school in space, so there wasn’t an interesting place that caught my mind but that doesn’t mean that it was bad or something. I think setting is vitally important in the genre of science fiction, not just because it might involve the future or another galaxy, but because it usually involves great social changes. The time was very vague, but it seemed to take place probably in the twenty-second century. This is shown through the social changes and advanced technology: the Population laws that restrict the number of children in a family; the technological developments that permit space travel; the existence of an alien civilization which has attempted to conquer Earth, the monitor, battleships, Dr. Device and other things such as computers.
Most of the book took place inside Battle School. The part of the book that took place outside was when he returned to Earth, and he stayed at a very large house, but the actual place was very vague. The place that remains in my mind the most is the distant world, once occupied by the buggers.