Damascus-SANA
The book “Foresight of Science Fiction Literature” by critic Rima Diab systematically sheds light on the aspirations of science fiction and the need to pay attention to it because it is one of the components of the evolving reality that writers and scientists think about.
Dr. Diab clarified in her book issued by the Arab Writers Union and Dar Sweden that science fiction played an important role in the development of science and the discovery of the laws of nature. Writers and science fiction writers tried to explore the unknown future horizons and its mysterious worlds that, at first glance, were opposed to the apparent facts of science such as human organ transplantation, cloning and engineering. Genetic and gene therapy, these discoveries and inventions were fantasies flirting with the minds of writers and scientists.
The book, which is located in 143 large pieces, in which the writer Diab explained that we live today in an era in which scientific progress has become a remarkable phenomenon in our lives. Light on everything that raises human anxiety and ambitions, and treats his fears after examining the causes.
The book shows that science fiction is a type of literature that deals with scientific developments, discoveries and inventions that may occur in the near or distant future. Their literature of ideas, discoveries and inventions.
The book deals with the current and contemporary generation and the great imaginations they possess that may be great in making the future, warning of the death of these fantasies that our societies shy away from and that reduce their importance, which prompted many of their owners to emigrate.
The book reviewed the pioneers of science fiction literature in modern Arabic literature, the importance of this literature, its patterns, methods, features, how time is used in its events, the nature of the narrative used by its writers, its structure, language, characters and their transformations.
The author of the book stated in a statement to SANA that the remarkable development in our daily lives is related to literature, as it represents reality and draws the horizon for the future. Hence, it was necessary to stand on a new literature, which is the literature of science fiction, which did not get what it deserves to study in our Arab world, despite the presence of seeds This literature has been around since antiquity, pointing to the necessity of directing the new generation to this type of literature to think seriously, innovate, and pioneer new fields of research and exploration.
Muhammad Khaled Al-Khidr
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