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- 1. Annual Report 2014 Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies
- 2. The Beginning It is a matter of great pleasure to bring on record that in 1988, the magazine 2001 from New Delhi had an interview via satellite with Isaac Asimov. This event was carried out by the team work of Mukul Sharma (editor, 2001),Chandan Mitra (coordinator), and The Times of India Asst Editor Jug Suraiya.
- 3. II Wave I presume that this is the beginning of the II wave of the World Science Fiction movement in India Exactly a decade later, Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies was established on Asimovs birthday.
- 4. IASFS IASFS was established on January 2, 1998 Since then it has been promoting research work in the field of Indian SF. So far the Annual Conferences were held at Chennai, Coimbatore, Gandhigram, and Vellore in Tamil Nadu, Bangalore and Mysore in Karnataka, Varanasi in UP, Aurangabad and Pune in Maharashtra States as well as at Pondichery.
- 5. English Department, St.Teressas College, Kochi The Department of English at Bharatiar University, Coimbatore and at Yeshwant Mohite College, Pune had organized the previous two World Conferences. I must thank the organizers here for continuing this tradition for holding consecutively the III World Conference in popularizing Science.
- 6. Themes The themes dealt in the previous conferences are Artificial Intelligence, Cinema and SF, Fantasy, Genetic Engineering, Hindi SF, Indian Responses to World SF, Indian SF in Vernacular languages, Literary Criticism on Indian SF,
- 7. Themes Myth, Nanotechnology, Print versus Visual SF, Science and Science Fiction, Science Fiction theme: Time, Science Fiction Today, Science Today, SF and Mainstream Fiction, SF Narration, SF the Human Aspect, Women in Science Fiction and others.
- 8. SF Writing Workshop In its highlights, IASFS had arranged an SF Story Writing Workshop conducted by Eric Miller and story reading session by respective SF writers. Apart from arranging a video interactive conference with the Scientists and SF writers in India, a video conference was also arranged with Professor James Gunn of Kansas, USA.
- 9. Annual Conference Themes Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Science & SF SF & Mainstream Fiction Print and Visual SF Nanotechnology Genetic Engineering
- 10. Themes Myth & Fantasy Women in Science Fiction Cinema & SF: Seventy years of Synergy- 1926-2003 Indian SF in Vernacular Languages. SF in Media and others
- 11. Video Conference A video show was on arranged on Award Ceremony of Campbell Conference held at Kansas, USA in July 2000- Writers Workshop at the Bangalore conference. An interaction with Dr.Phondke, A.P.Deshponde & others was organized during Mysore conference. A video show was on Interaction with Prof.Gunn was arranged at the Aurangabad Conference.
- 12. IJSFS The association is bringing out biannual Indian Journal of Science Fiction Studies. It has been publishing scholarly articles, short stories and also the Papers read at the conferences. It is also bringing out quarterly News letters. Recently, IASFS has published Understanding SF by KSP & MHS.
- 13. SF Workshop It is reported that an SF workshop was held at IIT Kanpur in which Vandana Singh had taken part in it. A Panel discussion was organized in London on Indian Culture on Aug 19th 2009 in which Indian SF was also a topic of discussion.
- 14. Birth of Kalkion The Hindi section of Kalkion - an online Indian SF magazine has emerged a few months back. It has published a few stories, poems, and articles.
- 15. Visual Zakir Ali Rajnishs book on Script writing has been released on 15.09.09 at Luknow. It provides sufficient impetus to turn SF Print media into visual media. It is reported that Robo/Endhiran a Tamil SF movie starring Rajanikanth and Aishwarya Rai will be released soon.