Voyant Visualization

 

  • It’s pretty clear that I prefer print media – “book,” “story,” and “novel” are all pretty big and I don’t see anything about TV or movies, which makes sense for me. “Art” is fairly large, though.
  • You can see my love of space!! “Space,” “sky,” “moon,” “mars,” “astronaut,” “rocket,” “universe,” etc.
  • “Fantasy” is also prominent – we’ve discussed how the two genres are often grouped together, so that makes sense.
  • It’s fun to see the specific authors I looked up! (Although I only read one article specifically about Octavia Butler, so it’s fascinating that her name is so big – her name must have come up in lots of other places.)
  • Interestingly, while I did not search a single thing about a man, “man” is the same size as “women” (right above “science”).
  • I also semi-intentionally focused on marginalized groups (both as writers and characters in sf): “queer,” “black,” “Jewish,” and “women” come up fairly often.
  • “World,” “future,” “time,” “city,” and “life” all kind of point to the place and future of humanity in general – that’s kind of cool.
  • It’s also interesting what’s missing: not much technology or robots or anything like that, and no cyberpunk at all.

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