Hi friends! Lets begin talking on Indian science fiction.But first of all some basics for those learned friends who still look this genre with a bit of sneer...
Hello Fandom, The other day I was discussing the very hybrid nature of SF –the marriage of science and fantasy.The unison of seemingly two opposite humane...
Hi Friends Take this Simlest one from me...... Afiction which can not or should not sustain itself without its scientific contents Arvind Dubey in Lucknow...
Hi Every one Plz add ur photo in the group Proceddure is simple. Lok on left side of your massage board click photo from the listNew screen will apear. Its...
Dear Friends, I am delighted and my joy knows no bounds as more and more members are joining me in the crusade of promoting Indian sci fi.Let us share our ...
Dear Friends, I am delighted and my joy knows no bounds as more and more members are joining me in the crusade of promoting Indian sci fi.Let us share our ...
So few more of Sc Fiction definitions According to Brian W. Aldiss, author and critic: "Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his ...
Hi groupmates Plz add ur photo in the group Procedure is simple.Look on left side of your massage board click photo from the list. New screen will appear. Its...
Cool down doctor,We would love to c our photos on web but r fraught with certain technial limitations and most of us are just compunaives!Yes, yr photo on grp...
Dear Fandom, Dr.Arvind Dubey contributed some sf definitions given by certain messihas of the genre.I think you would have tried yours one also by now.Its such...
Hello everyone! glad to be 2gether. started science fiction association in 1998. conduced 8 conferences till date. Dr Misra good friend. happy he has started...
Dr Arvind Misra quoted Issac Asimov that "Stories with a plot of contemporary world though may be full of science and technology are not considered sf." I fail...
This is YVR Subrahmanyam MA MPhil(JOUrnalism) From hyderabad. I welcome all to this group. I request all to send invitations to The science communicators. My...
Dear friends, We should all welcome Mr.Purushothaman, doyen of Indian Sf( English) who also happen to be the proud president of Indian association of science...
namaskar, main mishra ji ki paribhasa se puri tarah sahmat nahi hoon. agar S.F. ko future base bana denge, to uski samajikta (Bhartiya manyataon ko dekhte...
Respected Arvind ji, It was good to see my fraternity here. I was missing it very much in Delhi. Though I have chosen a job where I am dealing with science and...
Its very easy to define science fiction. As Analog magazine says, "pick a science fiction story and remove science from it, it the story still stands erect,...
Well, two divergent views have so far emerged on the nature of sci fi.One,sci fi should depict future only and other, it may contain contemporary realities.Any...
Rajnish, I beg to differ, if you want to deal with social issues then there is no need to have the tag of science fcition, that is completely un-necessary. It...
Swapnali, A good science fiction has to be basically a good fiction dealing with social issues.For that matter how social issues get complicated or simplified...
"Swapnil ji duniya gol hai na jahan se chale wahin aa pahunche (please refer my simplest definition) Jab ise man liya to Sf ke futuristic hone na hone ka...
In an introduction by Isaac Asimov to a novel by a younger author and he wrote- "A science fiction story must be set against a society significantly diferent...
hi, good to see many defns. posted. Present or future, or even the past, SF should be about the way science and technology effects changes in our lives -...
Hi,Everyone Its great gain to me personally and to this group as well with the appearance of very respected and revered names in science popularizaton/fiction...
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 Dear Mishraji, Kindly send me details of the programme scheduled at Gomti nagar Lucknow during 23-28 March, 2007 Regards, Dr.A.K.Singh NBFGR ... Dear...
