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Name one of the most successful twentieth century science fiction writer from russia(with information)?
Name one of the most successful twentieth century science fiction writer from russia(with information)
Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, as the son of Judah Asimov and Anna Rachel Berman Asimov. His father was educated within the limits of Orthodox Judaism, but religion did not play a central role in Isaac’s childhood. “He didn’t even bother to have me bar mitzvahed at the ago of thirteen,” Asimov remarked later. Judah Asimov was well read in Russian literature, but especially he loved Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish stories. During World War I he served in the Russian Army. In 1923 the family moved to the United States, and settled in New York. Before opening a sweet-shop, Judah worked in odd jobs, and learned also to speak English. In old age, when he retired to Florida, he became Orthodox again. Asimov himself never learned Russian, and the culture of his parents’ native country remained him distant.
Asimov could read before he entered the first grade. He also had “a near-photographic memory.” At school Asimov finished books in a few days. His father got him a library card, but did not supervise the books his son read. A classic “bookworm”, Asimov devoured early works on Greek mythology, the Iliad, William Shakespeare plays, history books, all kinds of miscellaneous reading. One library was not enough – he used to go to every one within reach. After leaving Boys High School in Brooklyn, an elite school in those days, Asimov studied chemistry at Columbia University, New York, where he graduated in 1939 and received his M.A. in 1941.
In 1942 Asimov married Gertrude Blugerman; they had two children. The marriage was not easy – “sex didn’t work out too well”, recalled Asimov, “with neither of us possessing experience.” She also smoked. During WW II Asimov worked in the US Naval Air Experimental Station alongside such science fiction writers as L. Sprague de Camp, who, according to Asimov, had “something very British about his appearance”, and Robert A. Heinlein, who made Asimov feel “particularly gauche” with his courtly way. Asimov’s relationship with Heinlein became later somewhat strained. He believed that Heinlein, a liberal during the war, adopted “rock-ribbed far-right conservative” attitudes afterwards under the influence of his wife. At the NAES Asimov remained from 1942 to 1945. After the end of the war Asimov served in the army as a corporal – he received his draft notice in September 1945. Asimov served eight months and twenty-six days. In 1948 he received his Ph. in biochemistry from Columbia University. Asimov’s pseudo-dissertation, ‘The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline’, was published in 1948 in Astounding Science Fiction.
In 1949 Asimov joined the Boston University School of Medicine, where he was made an associate professor of biochemistry in 1955. Asimov was one of the best lecturers at the university, but after 1958 he taught only from time to time. Research did not interest him much. “As far as I know, not a single research paper to which my name was attached ever proved of the slightest importance,” Asimov said. He devoted himself to writing and focused mostly on non-fiction, publishing such works as THE INTELLIGENT MAN’S GUIDE TO SCIENCE (1960), and books on history and literary topics. Asimov remained an associate professor until 1979, and subsequently held the title of professor.
Asimov married in 1973 the writer and psychoanalyst Janet Opal Jeppson. He had met her already in the 1950s. During the following years, Asimov saw her from time to time on his visits to New York. Correspondence with her convinced Asimov that she was the kind of person that suited him perfectly. Janet Jeppson began to write science fiction in the 1970, most of it for children. Her early works she published under the name J.O. Jeppson. Among her books are The Second Experiment (1974), The Last Immortal (1980), Laughing Space (anthology, 1982), The Mysterious Cure, and Other Stories of Pshrinks Anonymous (1985), and Mind Transfer (1988). For young readers she created in collaboration with Isaac Asimov the Norby Chronicles, which depicted the adventures of a robot.
“Since I am an atheist and do not believe that either God or Satan, Heaven or Hell, exists, I can only suppose that when I die, there will only be an eternity of nothingness to follow.” (from I. Asimov) Asimov had in 1977 a heart attack and in 1983 he had triple bypass surgery. The winter of 1989-90 Asimov spent in a hospital due to a congenital weakness of the mitral valve in the heart. In FORWARD THE FOUNDATION (1993) Asimov said farewell to Hari Seldon. Asimov’s heart and kidney failure worsened and he died at New York University Hospital on April 6, 1992.
Asimov started to write at the age of eleven. When he worked at his father’s store, he became interested in pulp magazines, and imitated their language in his early works. At the age of 18 Asimov sold his first story, ‘Marooned Off Vesta’. One of the magazines, which printed his tales, was Astounding Science Fiction. It was edited by John W. Campbell J
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fiction century
Science fiction defies categorization as it contains a huge gathering of disparate forms of fiction including horror, futuristic, magic, fantasy and a profusion of more demonic monsters than the Middle Ages ever imagined in its preoccupation with hellfire and damnation.
Interest in the future is always partly fear-based-the unknown, the mysterious and ‘what’s-to-come’. H.G. Wells was deeply concerned with the threat/promise of technology. He struggled in his time to create a peaceful world community, profoundly disappointed at his death with humanity’s inability to transcend the limitations of its time. So of course he dreamed of time travel, the only alternative solution.
Forty years later Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (1984) wrote scathing denunciations-dystopias-of science, technology and their dehumanizing inventions. Orwell predicted mind control by fear and intimidation, while Huxley imagined the biological engineering of uneducated, hedonistically pleasured drug-drones.
At the beginning of the cold war Ray Bradbury, a consummate romanticist, who wrote the beautiful Dandelion Wine about an idyllic summer of happiness, yet was terrified of nuclear holocaust when he envisioned Earth both destroying itself and the wise far-advanced Martians in The Martian Chronicles.
In the late 20th century Michael Crichton, worrying about medical and computer viruses writes Armageddon stories like Coma, Jurassic Park, and Andromeda Strain, but then tried to convince us there’s nothing to be afraid of about global warming in State of Fear.
By the end of the 20th century science fiction had become almost synonymous with fantasy-magical Hobbit stories. You can’t tell whether Neil Gaiman is telling a mythical magic tale, once called a children’s story, or writing a story about grown up people. He seems to be doing both in American Gods, which illustrates what’s happened to science fiction. It’s become there-are-no-limits-in-the-universe fantasy writing, turning science fiction into cartoons and comic books for grownups. I believe entirely in fantasy. That’s what fiction is.
But now science has entered the realm of fiction, for instance, by employing hypothetical models of the environment, weather, planet size, etc., inventing two fictional planets, and drawing scientific conclusions about what kind of life would evolve there.
We’re learning that model building is the core strength of science. That’s all the various forms of mathematics are, various conceptual kits from which to build models. It’s the same strategy that Sherlock Holmes uses, where all the evidence must fit within one system of sense. Though Sherlock expected that only definitive tangible evidence would verify his theory.
Meanwhile scientists have found a way to make theory synonymous with fact. They’ve become heroes in the 21st century. We adore them. In the process they’ve gotten seduced by the fame of that experience, and, to please their growing audience, are writing part science, part fiction. Only vaguely imply they’re being hypothetical, they make grand scientific assertions that have the authority of fact. They make no clear and simple disclaimers. They seem to have embraced the illusion that their models can predict reality with a high enough probability of being right, that they can assume so. Pretending to be making pure science, they’re partly making science fiction, claiming it to be reality by blurring the boundary between models and reality.
Perhaps, unconsciously, that’s why, as readers, we’ve developed such an addiction to reality. We avidly watch real families raising real children, and real offenders committing real crime. We can’t seem to get enough of real people doing real things … as if we had lost touch with reality, and need to be reassured it’s still there. In the meantime fiction has almost become synonymous with falsehood-unless it’s just cartoons.
If a writer creates fiction, like HG Wells’s War of the Worlds, as if it was actually happening, terrifying half a nation (Orson Wells radio show), what he’ll receive instead of fame is infamy. He becomes the Judas Goat. Like the poor woman who wrote a story of her life that we bestseller loved, but later found wasn’t true. In a moral flurry of indignation the publisher withdrew the book from the marketplace, and we hounded her out of publishing.
As always, time changes everything. Does that mean perhaps that everything is fiction-even facts? Eventually they’re false … replaced with new ones. Perhaps we’re having lots of trouble getting used to the fact that everything’s relative, partly true and partly fiction, and it will always be that way. And yet in the meantime, at least for now, we still have to make a decision.
Don Fenn
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science fiction adventures
Science fiction films have mesmerized the audience world over with its surreal adventures and special effects. These kinds of fiction movies attract young people the most. But films like Star Wars and Superman has a universal appeal. Science fiction films take its audience to a dream world where everything is out of this world and larger than life.
In this article we will be discussing the top five science films of all time. Science fiction films generally have a mass appeal and are especially popular within the young audiences.
To talk about the best five science fiction films we need to start with the series of Star Wars directed by none other than George Lucas. No science fiction list is complete without a Star Wars film. Their impact of the history of cinema is incalculable. Star Wars features some of the most iconic characters of the world cinema. All the Star Wars movies became hugely successful and was liked by everyone world over. And the Jedi are the special attraction of the films. The fighting techniques are unique and stylish as well.
The second film is Blade Runner, which was made in the year 1982. The director of this film is Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford portrays the main character. The story revolves around Harrison Ford who plays a policeman, Rick Deckard, and his hunt for four cloned humanoids, known as Replicants, in a Dystopian version of Los Angeles. Replicants have been deemed illegal and Deckard is a blade runner, a specialist in exterminating them. It also discusses consciousness with an attempt to formulate a way to tell a human from a machine. The Voight-Kampff empathy test is used by the police in the film to identify the replicants – who have memories implanted and are programmed with artificial emotions.
The third film is also directed by Ridley Scott named Alien which is being in the year 1979. The film is about in stellar mining vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts a signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. The most important scene from this film almost became iconic with an infant creature bursting bloodily through John Hurt’s chest. The interstellar mining vessel takes onboard a life form with concentrated acid for blood and two sets of jaws, which then messily dispatches the crew. The film was praised for the gothic set design and Sigourney Weaver’s portrayal of reluctant hero Ellen Ripley.
The fourth film is called 2001 A Space Oddesy directed by Stanely Kubrick. This film was being made in the year 1968. The film is one of the finest works of director Staley Kubrick. This film achieved enormous fame for its then revolutionary special effects. Even before the invention of super computers and stunning special effects, this film has brilliance of the simulations, which would never be done better despite all the modern computer graphics.
The fifth film is called Solaris, which is directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. This film is being made in the year 1972. This fantastic science fiction was remade in the year 2002 but the original holds a fascination for fans of the novel by Stanislaw Lem. This film is about a psychologist who travels to a base on a remote planet to replace a mysteriously deceased scientist. There he encounters the secretive survivors and his dead wife. Reality is supplanted by the increasingly attractive alternative of the alien intelligence of that planet.
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