The reason Delany’s text was so influential for my understanding of the novels I read during the class was because of how it made me think about how the authors set up their settings and societies in their novels. The beginning of each novel became crucial for me to feel out how the author would challenge my perception of reality. The idea that each and every word contributes to the evolving image of the novel forces me to think about what the novel is trying to make me see. It makes me think about why the author chose to present me with these images, and it makes me think about how the estranged realities serve the messages and themes of the work. This finally brings us back to the introduction of the portfolio. A singular word and image has provided me a vast amount of ideas that the author could be working with. That image was my introduction to Mass Effect: Andromeda three years ago and it has pushed me to think of how it fits into my limited view of the world and how the image challenges me as well. It proves how central the use of imagery is to creating the cognitive estrangement in science fiction.  The human mind searches wildly for something familiar when presented to a new sentence or image. The reason science fiction is good at commenting on the real world is because it engages the reader into understanding the new rules of the world and how the author leverages the setting to their bidding.