LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13 : 1 January 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Robotics in Issac Asimov’s Short Story Collection
I, Robot

V. Kani Selvi, M.A., M.Phil.

Science Fiction

Literature enables man to escape out of the make-believe existence of everyday life and to forget for a while the grim realities of life. It prepares man to face the odds of life cheerfully and with courage. With the rapid development of science and technology, science fiction has become popular in the modern ages. It deals with the conflicts that arise out of the impact of scientific discoveries on the future life of humanity. It can inoculate against ignorance, premature advancement of research, and the depersonalizing threat of technological change.

Thus, Science Fiction is the literature that celebrates not merely Science and Technology but also technology driven social change as a permanent revolution as the final and most inexorable foe of all fixed power relationships everywhere. The most powerful Science Fiction manages to move beyond prophesies of future technological change. Speculative technology, time travel, alien races, intelligent robots, gene-engineering, space travel, experimental medicine, psionic abilities, dimensional portals or scientific principles contribute to the plot or background.

Isaac Asimov

Issac Asimov, a Russian born American, is an eminent writer. He is considered as the father of modern Science Fiction. He is a ‘Hardcore’ writer in the sense that basically and professionally he is a scientist and in the treatment of materials he is deeply committed to the values of the disciplines of Science.

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V. Kani Selvi M.A., M.Phil.
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S.F.R. College for Women
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