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Friends ,plz find out if its a sci fantasy kind of thing! ... From: Daniel Rabuzzi <drabuzzi@...> Date: 18 July 2010 23:51 Subject: The Choir Boats--...
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Deepak Sdeepak
sdeepak8222
Jul 22, 2010 4:42 pm
नमस्ते Indian, मैंने Facebook रूपरेखा बनाई है जहाँ पर मैं अपने चित्र,...
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drarvind
arvind_drmishra
Jul 25, 2010 3:29 am
Friends, Sorry for not being regular here -there are many more other obsessions in this impatient world than sf. But some good things happened and I am here to...
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K.MOHAN
sundaraselvan
Jul 25, 2010 8:52 am
Your answers are fitting Mishraji. Remember i have been urging the indian sf writers works should be translated into english so as to reach readers outside...
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K.MOHAN
sundaraselvan
Jul 25, 2010 8:55 am
I want to add one more point . I am ready to write for movies. But the non-science fictions are roped in write dialogue etc., in such movies too. What we need...
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Bimal Srivastava
bksrivastava...
Jul 25, 2010 11:42 am
Arvind ji. Your answers to the queries of Ms Shalini Srivastava are complete and really satisfying. I would like to add that in order to make her go further...
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tinkoo
tinkoo420
Jul 25, 2010 12:01 pm
... I might have something to say on other points later, but on movies first. Am I the only one who sees science fiction all around in Hindi cinema - "3...
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K.MOHAN
sundaraselvan
Jul 25, 2010 12:55 pm
I wish to bring to your notice that a science fiction film "Endhiran"; meaning robot starring rajini kanth is to be released shortly. it is said to be the...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 25, 2010 3:19 pm
Tinkoo ,quite an observation! sf elements being insinuated in mainstream fiction-good omen! ... -- arvind mishra...
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CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL
cmnautiyal
Jul 26, 2010 5:43 am
I wouldn't put the mentioned films in the category of SF for the simple reason that presence of gadgets alone doesn't suffice. If it were so, every films...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 26, 2010 9:51 am
Tinkoo ,what do you say on Dr.Nautiyal' dissent on your stand? I think he is right when he says that sf is not about showing machines and gadetary only ...or...
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tinkoo
tinkoo420
Jul 26, 2010 11:30 am
I guess we have very different ideas about what is sf if you don't see "3 idiots" & "Karthik Calling Karthik" as science fiction. Hollywood movies "look"...
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tinkoo
tinkoo420
Jul 26, 2010 11:31 am
We could argue all day on what is sf. I know a lot of people who don't think Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is science fiction! A lot of what I call sf simply...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 26, 2010 1:09 pm
*Tinkoo* "We could argue all day on what is sf" fully endorse it -it only indicates how potentially rich the genre sf is! What i conceive of sf, it is not the...
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tinkoo
tinkoo420
Jul 26, 2010 1:42 pm
There is a story by Isaac Asimov titled "Strikebreaker". This could have been a story by Munshi Premchand on untouchability in rural India: bhangis demanding...
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tinkoo
tinkoo420
Jul 26, 2010 3:25 pm
Oops - last of my 3 paras below is irrelevant. Sorry. ... -- <http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/> <http://twitter.com/varietysf>; Send free SMS to your Friends on...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 26, 2010 5:05 pm
Tinkoo I am aware of your monumental contribution to genre and value your opinion very much on the subject ,in the said story of sf messiah the location is not...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 27, 2010 12:55 am
More often than not I get such mails full of naive enthusiasm regarding science fiction and I feel helpless to sort out the matter .I am not in any academic...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 27, 2010 1:10 am
Which one Tinkoo ,I find none irrelevant. In strikebreaker ,no one touches human excreta with hands ,there is perfect automation and even then people who are...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 27, 2010 2:02 am
Tinkoo you may be right... ..as Animal Farm is usually accepted as Science Fiction because of the Utopian / Dystopian view albeit allegorical, This novel also...
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CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL
cmnautiyal
Jul 27, 2010 4:46 am
George Orwell's 'Animal farm' is one of he greatest satires. But, in my opinion, science fiction- no! Nor is 'Do Bailon...'That is unless you include...
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CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL
cmnautiyal
Jul 27, 2010 4:51 am
I don't know if having an exclusive research journal for SF is a really mature idea today. How about contributingto J. Science Communication (JCom, a...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 27, 2010 4:55 am
Thanks Dr, Nautiyal ,but there is already one -*Indian Journal of Science Fiction Studies.* contact: Dr.K.S.Purushothaman(editor) #5,17th East Main Road , ...
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tinkoo
tinkoo420
Jul 27, 2010 5:22 am
Worldcon is _the_ most prominent annual gathering of the genre, & this year's will be in Australia next month or month after - search web of AussieCon 2010,...
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CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL
cmnautiyal
Jul 27, 2010 5:22 am
Thx for the info. I shall chk on net for the periodicity and nature of contributions etc.? ... From: arvind mishra <drarvind3@...> Subject: Re:...
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tinkoo
tinkoo420
Jul 27, 2010 5:22 am
Genre has always been deeply divided on the definition of sf - so not much new in our different opinions. And I've seen my own definition of sf evolving; 3...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 27, 2010 12:58 pm
Tinkoo , Yours is a ' inclusive ' def of sf and the other school is of exclusive def of sf...that is it ...no issues! ... -- arvind mishra...
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arvind mishra
drarvind3@...
Jul 27, 2010 1:04 pm
"If the society, the person, the technology, and the scientific knowledge base in the story are all standard and realistic (drawn from observed reality),...
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K.MOHAN
sundaraselvan
Jul 27, 2010 1:40 pm
I too thank for the info chandra Mohanji. Also there is more doing research and study on science fiction than writing science fiction in india. I agree with ur...
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tinkoo
tinkoo420
Jul 27, 2010 2:55 pm
I could quote a dozen other definitions, all different. Almost every year, there are a couple of threads on rasfw on what is the correct definition of science...
