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Elements of Science Fiction in Asimov s Foundation
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The Elements of Science Fiction in Asimov’s Foundation
[This essay explores those characteristics of the novel Foundation, which are peculiar to the genre of Science Fiction.]
The most fundamental and obvious element of Science Fiction is its dependence on imagined technological advancements. ... Asimov, in his novel Foundation, introduces hyper-spatial travel based on the concept of hyper-space, to make the existence of the Galactic Empire possible. ... This feature of ‘info-dumping’ is quite peculiar to Science Fiction, as writers of other genres need not explain such things as how people travel and which fuels they use. ... Asimov uses various devices for info-dumping to avoid monotony. ... The second device is the most commonly used one; that of the authorial voice, but Asimov takes care never to overuse it. ...
Having established a scientific base for the course of events described, SF is not pre-occupied with the concerns of science but the effects that the changed circumstances of the invented world, have on the human society. ... In Foundation, though we have the technological advancements as the essential backdrop, much more important is the creation of the field of ‘psychohistory’ in the novel – a branch of mathematics which can be used to predict ‘the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli’. ... Science Fiction, thus, simply uses science as a means to provide a larger canvass to explore the problems faced by the human race and the possible ways to tackle them. No wonder then, that SF writers prefer the term ‘SF’ to ‘science fiction’ since it can be expanded in various ways – speculative fiction, sociological fiction and so on (Maxim Jakubowski and Edward James in the introduction to The Profession of Science Fiction). ... During the early 1940’s, the time at which Foundation was written, the most relevant “What if…? ... Asimov creates a metaphor of the British Empire in the form of the declining Galactic Empire, in at least as much that the fall of the Galactic Empire is inevitable and even desirable.
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Title: Elements of Science Fiction in Asimov s Foundation
Words: 1633
Rating: None
Pages: 6.5
submitted by: reemakansal
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