Sci- Fi
What defines science fiction?
Science fiction is a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. Scientific fiction deals with futuristic and imaginative concepts. It is also called ‘literature of Ideas'. It generally deals with advanced science inventions or Technologies. By the beginning of the 20th century, an array of standard science fiction “sets” had developed around certain themes, among them space travel, robots, alien beings, and time travel.
We can interpret the science fiction developed in the 20th century because it is a century of scientific advancement. Industrialization increased, mass production and the materialistic view of the public increased . Science fiction can work on the two motives. Science fiction shows the positive impacts of the development of Science and Technology and many times a science fiction novel and television series shows how it will start dominating us and will bring the negative impact in society.
We can also interpret that some science fiction readers are so much involved in the reading of sci- fi novels that they are attracted towards it which inspired them to make some of the scientific experiments and to invent new things, reading imaginative scientific fiction developed their imagination of power to invent new things.
H.G. Wells was once referred to as 'the Shakespeare of Science Fiction.' He is more often called 'the father of Science Fiction' because of his novels such as The Time Machine (1895) or The War of the Worlds (1898).
Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ (1818):
Here we say that science fiction developed majorly in the 20th century but we also say that Mary Shelley's ‘Frankenstein’ is science fiction which was published in the 19th century in 1818. Novel was written because electricity was developing in that era and it was so powerful that it would bring danger to the lives of people. Electricity was tested on the dead bodies of animals and was shown how the electricity creates vibrations in the dead body. If it can give life to a dead body then how harmful it can be to the living person to show this concept. Mary Shelley wrote a sci-fi name Frankenstein but it emerged in the 20th century.
Mary Shelley's novel of the 19th century gave us the futuristic view of robots which we are seeing today. In Frankenstein the body parts were joined and through electricity a life was given to that stitched to body parts and the monster was created and if we compared to the present time we can see that what a futuristic insight Mary Shelley had with the help of electricity and wires and connecting the iron we are creating a person a robot.
H.G. Wells ‘The Time Machine’ (1895):
H.G. Wells Sci-Fi novel ‘The Time Machine’ talks about a device or a vehicle through which a person came back in the time or further in the time. Time Machine is interpreted in modern times as a commentary on the increasing inequality and class divisions of Wells' era, which he projects as giving rise to two separate human species.
Comparing it with the present time still we have not got any such machine device or a vehicle through which we can move back and forth in the time as we so that in Mary Shelley Sci-Fi Frankenstein we can compare that to Electricity we have invented a robot the futuristic view which Mary Shelley gave came true but till 21st century the future is to give you a given by HG Wells of time machine has not came true.
The Other Sci-Fi novels written by HG wells are The Invisible Man, The War of the World
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We do see such types of sci-fi movies in Bollywood also.
Mr. India
Bollywood movie mister India directed by Shekhar Kapoor introduced a gadget through which the protagonist mister India was able to get invisible and was visible only in the red light the gadget was like a wrist watch .
Tarzan The Wonder Car:
This movie is directed by Abbas Burmawalla and Mustan Burmawalla. They used an artificial intelligence in the car which made a car work on its own. We do see such intelligence in today’s driverless cars.
Love story 2050:
Love Story 2050, directed by Harry Baweja, was exclusively about traveling to a utopian future-city of Mumbai in the year 2050. It is the first utopian time travel film of Bollywood. The movie shows futuristic Mumbai, with its flying cars, holograms, robots, 200-story buildings and more.
Robot:
Robot movie, directed by S. Shankar. It gives a So Beautiful idea that how robot can help be helpful to us in our everyday life it makes our life easy it can also be used in the armed forces to safeguard the nation but it also showed that when science will advance to a state where it and will grow by its own artificial intelligence it can also dominate a human being and can be harmful for the living beings.
Doraemon:
We also have a children's fantasy cartoon named Doraemon which we consider to be a sci-fi cartoon. In this cartoon a robot name the Doraemon has came to Nobita from the 22nd century and he provides the various gadgets to help Nobita and to make the life easy. he has the various gadgets like time machine, anyway door which helps a person to reach anywhere in a very less period of time, big light, small light. Translating tools through which the human would be able to understand the language of animals and also the people who are speaking a completely opposite language we can interpret that it will increase the brotherhood in the nation. He has a gadget which cleans a house on its own and takes care of the house which can be very much necessary in the faster and the busy life. This cartoon shows how the 22nd century would be. At present we are in the 21st century and we have grown a lot faster and better than the 20th century. We can interpret that the 22nd century might be faster than what life we are having at present and can also imagine and have a futuristic view that perhaps the gadgets shown in the cartoon will be present in some or the other way.
Conclusion:
Science fiction novels, films are the genres in Literature which can be considered to be the most creative genres. Sci- fi novels take readers or the viewer to adventure from galaxies to the underwater, it also introduces the readers and viewer to the otherworldly characters and also gives insight into the Technologies, showing the power of Science and Technology.
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