"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction, It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible".
Ray Bradbury.
The fathers of Science Fiction.
Jules verne.
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He was a French writer best know for his adventure stories and for his direct influence in Science Fiction as a literary genre. Jules himself, claimed that his stories were not written with scientific purposes but their closed relationship with science matters made him one of the most important writers in the science fiction society. Verne, is also consider a prophet because many of his novels contained technology that for that time was fantasy but later on became quotidian.
Some of his most famous novels are:
"Journey to the center of the earth"
"Twenty thousand leagues under the sea"
"Around the world in Eighty days"
H.G Wells.
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One of the best writers in the history of Science Fiction, According to some stories about Wells, he really wanted to write scientific papers and he wrote some Essays explaining mechanical and technological progress but the editorials found his papers bored and full of technical terms, therefore Wells knew that the best way to awake the public in the importance of this issues was through Novels.
One of the biggest contibutions to Science fiction was the story "the time machine" he used this story to explain the necesity of other dimension: TIME. This novel has movie and television versions and a great number of comic book stories.
He wrote as well many other stories than today are Science fiction classics. If you want to really understand Sci.Fi you must read one of these stories.
"The island of doctor Moreau.
"The invisible man".
"The War of worlds".
"The first man in the moon".
He is also one of the prophets, here you have an Episode of the series "Prophets of Science Fiction"
Isaac Asimov.
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The three laws of robotics
"1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflic with the first law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law".
I, Robot (1950)
His complete name is Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, a Russian name from a Russian family, Asimov was born in Petrovichi in Russia but when he was three years old, he and his family emigrated to the U.S.
Asimov began to write science fiction because of his early contact with Pulp Magazines, some fiction stories published through magazines. He became a Futurist or Futurian and his writings reflect that inclination.
In 1942 he published Foundation one of the best science fiction work of all times, Foundation is a series of books and stories about an interstellar empire.
Asimov also wrote a lot of tales and stories where robots were the essential issue, and I, Robot is one his best collection of works.
Asimov wrote more than 500 books!!!
posted by Estefanny Múnera
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