Farhat Parveen is a Pakistani expatriate Urdu fiction writer in Saudi Arabia who has written lot of short stories which has won appreciation from big literary critics and contemporary writers of South Asian Countries. Three collections of her short stories “The Frozen” “From the window of Restaurant” and “The rocks of glass” has come face to face to the contemporary trends in modern fiction. Her fictions are the product of a beautiful, high and pathetic scenario of her creativity. Her … » read more
Christian Fiction Literature is a rapidly expanding literary field which has developed considerably over the last several years. Originally seen as the “escapist” and “not so serious” little cousin of more serious works on Biblical Theology, Fiction has developed to be so way more than just entertainment. Historians have long recognized that folks learn thru many ways. Reading facts, historic accounts, and most importantly listening to stories. Before writing there were stories, passed from generation to generation. And these stories … » read more
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Robots (a word which includes here androids as well) are part and parcel of modern science fiction literature; robots appear in stories (s. link) by Peter Philips, Philip K. Dick, Idris Seabright, Algis Budrys, Cordwainer Smith, J. T. Macintosh, Alfred Bester, Walter M. Miller, Robert Bloch, Keith Roberts, Richard Bowker, Clifford Simak, Lester del Ray, William Campbell Gault, Richard Matheson and Robert Presslie; the robot stories of all these authors were written in the 1950s. Ray Bradbury wrote between 1951 … » read more
January 1985 marks the beginning of America’s love affair with Ender Wiggin. It was that month that Ender’s Game was published, becoming an instant blockbuster, and “probably the most popular science fiction novel published in the last twenty years” (John Kessel). The child prodigy and ultimate savior of the earth, Ender Wiggin, had appeared seven years earlier in a short story published in the science fiction magazine Analog. Writer Orson Scott Card had spent much of his young life working … » read more
Science fiction has inspired many block-buster movies. Star Wars, Matrix and Terminator are some of the movies that are based on science fiction. In fact, many scientific discoveries were first imagined in science fiction literature only. Robots were first featured in children’s fiction books during the start of the twentieth century. They eventually became a reality during the later part of the twentieth century. Unlike other types of fictions, the science fiction books feature technological innovations that have not become … » read more