The turmoil and transformations that the world witnessed due to the outbreak of the Corona pandemic prompted many people to read literary works and watch movies in the classification of fantasy of the apocalypse or literature of the rotten city and bitter reality (dystopia).

The popularity of books and films dealing with epidemics has increased in the past few weeks, such as the novel "Stance" by American author Stephen King, whose events revolve after the end of the world and the collapse of society as a result of an outbreak of a modified flu strain that turns into a pandemic that kills 99% of the world's population, as well as the movie "infection" "For the year 2011, which displays an outbreak of a deadly viral pandemic from the bat.

Catherine Schowitz, an academic at the University of Toronto at the Canadian University of Infectious Diseases in Literature, says that epidemics scare us in part because it turns our concerns about globalization, cultural change and community identity into concrete threats, and infectious disease novels provide authors and readers with an opportunity to explore the non-medicinal dimensions of fears associated with infectious diseases, according to her article on the website .

Critics are advised not to rely on epidemiological narratives to imagine the future, however science fiction literature is an exciting world inhabited by alternative facts, a miserable or bright future, interstellar travel, civilizations and alien beings, robots, and groundbreaking experiences, and readers are also advised to build their own choices of fiction books Al-Alami and his account, and here are some suggestions for the classics of this literary classification from the selection of the magazine "Tick Bet" Spanish.

"War of the Worlds" by Herbert George Wells
The magazine's selections started with this classic novel that first saw the light of day in 1898, then director Orson Welles adapted it to present it as a radio broadcast in 1938, and it made many cinematic and musical adjustments.

The peculiarity of this novel - which was translated into Arabic - is that it is the first work in history to address the topic of invading the Earth, where this exciting story spoke about meteorites, terrifying flight and interplanetary living, and narrated the Martian invasion of the Earth and their conflict with humans, where the protagonist struggles to return to his home while watching Aliens destroy London and annihilate those who oppose them.

The novel "War of the Worlds" is narrated by an anonymous narrator who talks about his presence in London during the aliens' invasion of it (Al-Jazeera).

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
In his novel Fahrenheit 451, American Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) paints a terrifying picture for the foreseeable future, expecting the return of a painful era in America and the world, a stage that saw intellectual and cultural terrorism emanating from prior political judgments and comprehensive positions.

The novel comes under the influence of what was known as the McCarthy era in America (relative to Senator Joseph McCarthy 1908-1957) at the beginning of the fifties of the last century during the Cold War, and the accusations and chases that affected many writers, writers and politicians in the United States and excluded many of them on charges of communism.

The novel - which was recently published by the Lebanese Dar al-Saqi in a translation of Said al-Azm - is going on in the future, where the writer imagines a totalitarian regime that invades the world and works to burn books at a degree of 451 degrees Fahrenheit, and makes television the main tool in the domination of minds, declares its fiery base that says that it must be burned The books and houses that you hide also.

And the three chapters in the novel "the stove and the salamander", "the sieve and the sand", "combustion with glowing fire" are ways to warn of the danger of drifting behind the frenzy of the machine and efforts to empty human beings from human and existential concerns, flattening knowledge and fighting wisdom.

The novel "Fahrenheit 451" belongs to the literature of the corrupt city and tells the story of a totalitarian regime that is conquering the world in the future (the island)

"Are robots dreaming of electric sheep?" Written by Philip K. rooster
The magazine named this novel as one of the symbols of the literary "cyberpunk" genre that focuses on the relationship between technology and the underworld of villains, and this short novel is written by American novelist Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), first published in the year 1968.

"Blade Runner" movie maker Ridley Scott quoted this novel, which takes place in the post-nuclear world, where residents have electric animals, and its hero must get rid of the "Nexus 6" team, a group of the next generation of robots coming from a colony Space.

"Ender Game" by Orson Scott Card
This novel won two most prestigious awards in science fiction, namely the "Nebula" award for best novel in 1985, and "Hugo" prize for best novel in 1986.

The theme of this novel revolves around the end of the world, where humanity faces genocide at the hands of aggressive "aliens" living outside the earth, and starred in "Ender" Wegen, a six-year-old with exceptional talent.

"2001 ... The Epic of Space" by Arthur Charles Clarke
The classic novel "2001 .. Epic Space" by novelist and inventor Arthur Charles Clark addresses science fiction in an unparalleled way, and the novel was transformed into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, where many developments are monitored, including the formation of a ground mission to build another extraterrestrial civilization from In order to promote smart life, then an astronaut travels to the base of the moon Clavius, where he finds evidence of intelligent life outside the Earth.

The protagonist of the "epic space" travels outside the Earth and explores smart life in space (Al Jazeera)

The film revolves around a journey to Jupiter to investigate a foreign body that appears to affect human development. This body (the monolith) is a geological feature that consists of a huge rock like some mountains, or a huge piece of rock placed inside a landmark or building.