Monday, June 22, 2015

Tropes: Sci-Fi


The most obvious trope I noticed while researching Sci-Fi books is anything to do with outerspace—the universe, planets, the moon, etc.  A good example of this would be the Ender’s Game series (see below). There’s also a trend of vehicles flying through space and they’re typically at war (with aliens likely). Images of futuristic technology in general are pretty common as well. I also noticed the use of bright colors – red, yellow, blue, green, with green and red being the most commonly used. There are a ton of Star Trek covers, so check out this site for more of those particular examples.