Literary Analysis on Letters: From Atlantis

Letters: from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg fits into the science-fiction genre category for many reasons. It involves time travel from the future to the past. It also engages “aliens from another domain” that make the book even more scientifically fictitious towards the conclusion of the novel. Letters: from Atlantis is a science-fiction novel because it contains “made-up nonsense” words used in almost all other science-fiction stories. However, it is more than just a usual 150-page science-fiction book. The setting, style, and author are important literary elements that make this book extremely spectacular, powerful, and distinctive from other books.
Letters: from Atlantis is first set in the late 21st Century. Scientists in the future develop a type of time travel in which the traveler’s consciousness is transferred into the mind of someone actually living in the past- a useful way to observe history first hand. After Roy, the main character of the novel, is s...