Paradise Lost Book I

"This book attempts to introduce science fiction studies to undergraduate students and young researchers and promises to acquaint them with a variety of creative expressions that this genre has produced. Additionally, it tries to give them a sense of the theoretical paradigms within which SF is located. The five SF short stories anthologized in this book, written by Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury and Jayant Narlikar illustrate narratives spun around prominent SF themes such as time travel, futurism, utopia, dystopia, alternate reality. global climate change, human and machine encounter etc. This section is followed by a collection of critical commentaries on the five anthologized stories which seek to address and investigate the form and content of these particular works of SF. Lastly, the book offers an Annexure section with a focus on other intriguing and contemporary currents in science fiction, SAKSHI DOGRA teaches English literature at Gargi College, University of Delhi, she is invested in the study of affect, emotions and feeling, youth cultures, popular fiction, literary taste and theories of self and subjectivity. SHWETA KHILNANI teaches English literature at SGTB Khalsa college, University of Delhi. She is interested in the study of digital narrative in the study of digital narrative, popular cultures, visual cultures and theories of contemporary literature. 7 Illustrations and Cover design by Anna Dasgupta"