Download or read book Indian Science Fiction The Space Cuckoo And Other Stories written by Arvind Mishra and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.