The Space Cuckoo and other stories

Science Fiction stories are usually set in unfamiliar unknown worlds or societies of the future. These stories are not set in the world as we know it and in fact, that is one reason that they have been dismissed in the past as stories for children alongside fairy stories.Science fiction writers conceptualize the possible forms of future science and technology and then envision the impacts of these future developments on human life. Science fiction writers talk about unknown worlds in their stories either in terms of time or space or both. Many a time, some elements of these imaginative worlds, created by science fiction writers, may turn out to be reality one day. Yet, science fiction writers are neither soothsayers nor prophets, they only project probabilities. Science fiction is a hybrid genre of literature in which a perfect blending of fiction and at least some science is needed which requires a great skill of writing. However, essentially, it is a genre of story writing, and not science communication, with even more license of make-believe than that available to realist fiction writers. It must consist of all the characteristics of a story.

Author: Arvind Mishra

Publisher: Namya Press

Publication Date: Jan 04, 2022

Number of Pages: 177 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1956861009

ISBN-13: 9781956861006