Historical event
* are common to both science and the biblical record.
* differ in both influencing factors and outcomes.
* have magnitudes.

### historical literature:

Science fiction
* Science Fiction can be some of the poorest written work in the literary world
  - sparks the imagination of scientists and creative people alike
* Some science fiction is more fiction than science.
  * is different from fantasy. Fantasy stories often have magic and other things that do not exist and are not science. Isaac Asimov was a famous science fiction writer. He once said that science fiction is possible, but fantasy is not.
* articulates the consequences of a faith in a technological future.
* attempts to use what is known to hypthesize about the unknown.
* can be both uplifting and frightening at the same time
  - comment on important issues in society
* changes over time.
* continues to be a booming market.
* continuing dialog of ideas, one generation to the next.
* demands engagement of the mind.
* depiction of the real.
* does have a habit of turning into science fact.
* expresses faith in human ingenuity, human intelligence and the human spirit.
* form of literature that takes place in an altered time or reality.
* fun-house mirror for a society warped by raging technological advance.
* fundamentally optimistic literature.
* has a long and complex history
  - much greater scope, and that is the exploration of the human being
* is about expanding the limits of imagination
  - the future, mostly
  - about, in essence, looking at the human race
  - all metaphor, like poetry
* is an historical literature
  - idealized type of vision of the life of the future
  - at least based on science
  - characterized by being future-oriented, rationalistic, and technological
  - fantasies
  - genres
  - grounded in science fact
  - modern myth
  - more speculative than fantasy
  - no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts
* is often about the politics of the here and now
  - more of the past and the present than it is of the future
  - sometimes closer to and often farther ahead of the truth than hard, cold reality
  - the best way of examining the future
* is the literature of ideas
  - the possible
  - material from which dreams begin their initial journey to reality
  - mirror of our dreams and ambitions
  - mythology of our age
  - one genre where the human being's relationship to their world is explored
  - parent genre of all postmodernism
  - subconscious of science
  - very literature of change
  - way men and women in the twentieth century have dreamed of the future
  - traditionally a literature of ideas, of imaginings
* is, one, entertainment, and two, extrapolation.
* lends distance that adds perspective to contemporary issues.
* literature of prophecy into the worlds of 'IF'.
* menace to the way of life of all right-thinking people.
* shows societal and universal evolution on the grandest scale.
* stands in the present and looks towards the future.
* wellspring of predictions for the next century.
+ Science fiction, Early examples of science fiction
  * Science fiction changes over time. Some authors wrote SF books before this type of writing had a name. These writers and books were not called science fiction when they were published. But, they are often called science fiction today.

### historical sites:

Ancient site
* Meet people, go places, do things.
* Some ancient sites have multiple baths.
* are historical sites

### history:

Architectural history
* aims to develop an awareness of the value of the past.
* explores how designers meshed style with utility.