Points: Fact and fiction in SF — Subjects of SF — Some famous SF writers — The appeal of SF.
Long ago, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells wrote fictions about man’s possible speedy trips around the world. Today their fictions have become facts. Some facts have even surprised old fictions. Thus what is science fiction today may prove to be science fact tomorrow. Both are the contributions of the inventive man.
Science fiction is called in abbreviation simply SF. The SF writers anticipate the future and also provide entertainment. Their fictions are fantastic. They touch upon the most improbable’ and even seemingly the most imponderable. Yet they also indirectly deal with the earthly problems of war and peace, and ecological, social and moral questions.
Isaac Asimov of USA, Alexander Belyaev of USSR, Arthur Clarke of Sri Lanka, Thomas Block of UK are some of the most famous names in Science Fiction writing. Asimov’s fictions on robots form a complete series. Belyaev’s The Amphibious Man is about a young man who had gills from a fish transplanted on his body and who could swim and live under water. Thomas Block bases his fiction Orbit on the actualities of the NASA space centre of USA. Arthur Clarke loves to weave his fantasy into the Buddhist and Hindu puranic legends as we find in his The Fountains of Paradise. Satyajit Ray, the famous film maker, is also a writer of SF in Bengali. ‘Professor Shanku’ is a typical SF character created by Satyajit Ray.
The marvels of science and technology today are vying with the strangest miracles. All science-loving young men, therefore, love science fiction.
Long ago, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells wrote fictions about man’s possible speedy trips around the world. Today their fictions have become facts. Some facts have even surprised old fictions. Thus what is science fiction today may prove to be science fact tomorrow. Both are the contributions of the inventive man.
Science fiction is called in abbreviation simply SF. The SF writers anticipate the future and also provide entertainment. Their fictions are fantastic. They touch upon the most improbable’ and even seemingly the most imponderable. Yet they also indirectly deal with the earthly problems of war and peace, and ecological, social and moral questions.
Isaac Asimov of USA, Alexander Belyaev of USSR, Arthur Clarke of Sri Lanka, Thomas Block of UK are some of the most famous names in Science Fiction writing. Asimov’s fictions on robots form a complete series. Belyaev’s The Amphibious Man is about a young man who had gills from a fish transplanted on his body and who could swim and live under water. Thomas Block bases his fiction Orbit on the actualities of the NASA space centre of USA. Arthur Clarke loves to weave his fantasy into the Buddhist and Hindu puranic legends as we find in his The Fountains of Paradise. Satyajit Ray, the famous film maker, is also a writer of SF in Bengali. ‘Professor Shanku’ is a typical SF character created by Satyajit Ray.
The marvels of science and technology today are vying with the strangest miracles. All science-loving young men, therefore, love science fiction.
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