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Final Frontiers - Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India (Paperback)
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Final Frontiers - Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 61
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Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award
2021.This is the first book-length study of the relationship
between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of
independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged
as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the
trend of science fiction writers being used by governments as
advisors on techno-scientific policies and defence industries. But
such relationships between literature, policy and geo-politics have
a long and complex history. Glimpses of this history can be seen in
the case of the first generation of post-colonial Indian science
fiction writers, the policies of scientific and technological
development in independent India, and the political strategy of
non-alignment advocated by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal
Nehru, who proposed that Third World nations should maintain an
equal distance between Washington and Moscow. Such a perspective
reveals the surprisingly long and relatively unknown life of Indian
science fiction, as well as the critical role played by the genre
in imagining alternative pathways for scientific and geo-political
developments to those that dominate our lives now.
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