Saturday, 2 January 2016

Research for essay

When studying the themes of The Illustrated Man a few years ago, I often found myself comparing the Fallout universe to The Illustrated Man. Both the Fallout series and The Illustrated Man shared similar themes and styles at times.

As seen within the Fallout games, they have a retro futuristic styles as so do the stories within The Illustrated Man. To further my comparison of the two, they both have similar themes within both Fallout and The Illustrated Man.

Case and point The Illustrate Man have these themes/settings within the stories:


  • A virtual reality nursery that becomes deadly - abuse of technology and how it can turn on it's owners  
  • In one story a Third World farmer who doesn't understand that atomic war is end of the world
  • A family faced with the end of the world
  • A service that allows people to create life-like robots duplicates of themselves 
  • Racism 
  • 1950's ideologies 
  • Technology advance quicker than what actually has happened in our reality

These are to name a few themes/settings within The Illustrated Man. To name a few Fallout themes/settings:


  • Atomic War - End of the world
  • In Fallout 4 the protagonist and their family flee to Vault 111 and hopes to survive the atomic war
  • Racism
  • Technology - abuse of it and it can be turned against you
  • 1950's ideologies 
  • Technology advance quicker than what actually has happened in our reality
Though by no mean are the two link, they both have some massive similarities between them.




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