Volume 5, Number 1, 2023

Editorial Introduction: Themed Issue on “Futuristic Epistemology and Scientific Dimensions: Neo-perspectives in Science Fiction”

Niladri Mahapatra and Akasdip Dey
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Interview

“Science Fiction, Posthumanism and Nonhuman Animals”: An Interface with Dr. Subhadeep Paul

Niladri Mahapatra
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Articles
Looking Backward at and Forward from the Novum: Friendly or Inimical to Life
Darko Suvin

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Imagining Plant Percipience: Botanical Futures in the Speculative Fiction of Brian Aldiss and Ursula Le Guin
John Charles Ryan
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The importance and need of magazines in nurturing and evolving a genre: A case study of Kalpabiswa
Soham Guha
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‘The Dystopian Turn’: Re-envisioning the Future through Speculative Fiction
Goutam Majhi
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Fighting the Freaks: Secular Individualism Vs Religion in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash

Dr. Rajkumar Bera
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Beyond the Certainty of the Dinner Party: Epistemological Horizons in H.G. Wells and Octavia Butler’s “Amnesty”

Joshua Fagan
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The Time Travelling Custodian: Exploring Possibilities of Time Travel in Tulku Lineage of Buddhism

Tenzin Nyima Bhutia
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Can the Horror of Technological Singularity be the Critique of Enlightenment? Detangling the Different Forms of Horror and Hyperrealism of the Uncanny Valley in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

Sindhura Dutta

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Exploring the Implications of Parallel Universe, Multiverse, and Time Travel in Science Fiction

Hemalatha Kannan

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Science Fiction and Its Presentation in Dystopia: An Analytical Study of Few Science Fictional Dystopian Texts

Shinasambhu Nandi

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Countering Dystopia with Spirituality: Re-reading Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor as a Visionary Fiction

Swarnendu Dam

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Manipulating Memory in Science Fictional Imaginary: Reading Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Ria Banerjee

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The Scientification of Science Fiction: A Study of the Truth of Posthuman Ontology in Fictionalized Science with Scientific Epistemology

Niladri Mahapatra

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Breaking Boundaries of Genre: Reading Prayaag Akbar’s Leila

Priyanka Paul

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Representation of Biopolitics and Climate Change Crises in Prayaag Akbar’s Leila.

Sankha Shubhra Mandal

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Science Fiction beyond Modern Periphery: A Postmodern Reading of The Hungry Septopus

Aminul Islam Molla

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Story

Influence

Pragya Gautam

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Poem

Shoes Flying In The Wind

Ranjit Dutta

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