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You have recently attended a seminar on ‘Science and Literature’ in which writers presented papers on Science Fiction and Literature and focused on the creativity of young writers. Write a short report about it for a leading newspaper in about 100-120 words.
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The seminar on “Science and Literature” was held at American college, Madurai. It was organized in memory of Prof. Vasanth. Students from various colleges, Government Higher Secondary Schools, and Matriculation schools were present. Dr. Paul Luv inaugurated the seminar. Students from Manjakkuppam Higher Secondary School talked about novels of Jules Verne-(i.e) Journey to the center of the earth, twenty thousand leagues under the sea, From earth to the moon, Around the world in eighty days, Five Weeks in a balloon, Off on a comet, An Antarctic mystery has prophesied man’s potential ability to carryout space travel, explore
Antarctica, do deep water Research, a mission to the moon and other celestial bodies. It is mind-boggling to realize that he wrote about these latest developments before 1905. Students were ‘ much impressed by the prolific sci-fi writings of the French novelist more than a century ago.
Prof. Sangeetha spoke on Aldous Huxley’s brave new world which predicted the Human genome project and how science can help produce babies with special attributes, size, color, and ’ character traits. All of us, know the cloning of ‘Dolly’. Student from Government Hr. Sec. School D. Kala spoke about Alvin Toffler and how he had predicted revolution due to technological breakthroughs in his most famous books. “Future shock”, “The third wave” r and “power shift”. He discusses modem technologies including the digital revolution and the communication revolution. Malathy talked about Sujatha, a Tamil Sci-fi writer who influenced a large number of children and adults to fall in love with computers and robotics. His imaginary characters Chitti and Jeena I have endeared him to the masses.
Asimov has written a large number of Sci-fi stories in collaboration with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. Asimov’s most famous work is the “Foundation Series” and Galactic empire”. Asimov has written Lucky start series of Juvenile science-fiction using the pen name Paul French. The seminar ended with the note that many sci-fi writers have greatly contributed to the giant strides Science and Technology has made in recent times. Students must read and write sci-fi fiction to influence the development of love for science.
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