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Bengali science fiction is a part of Bengali literature containing science fiction elements. ==Earliest writers== Science fiction in the Bengali language is known as "kalpabigyan" .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Culture : Bengal : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia )〕 Bengali writers wrote various science fiction works in the 19th and early 20th centuries during the British Raj, before the partition of India. Isaac Asimov’s assertion that "true science fiction could not really exist until people understood the rationalism of science and began to use it with respect in their stories" is true for the earliest science fiction written in the Bengali language. The earliest notable Bengali science fiction was Jagadananda Roy's ''Shukra Bhraman'' (''Travels to Venus''), published in 1879. This story is of particular interest to literary historians, as it described a journey to another planet; its description of the alien creatures that are seen in Uranus used an evolutionary theory similar to the origins of man: "They resembled our apes to a large extent. Their bodies were covered with dense black fur. Their heads were larger in comparison with their bodies, limbs sported long nails and they were completely naked." This story was published a decade before H. G. Wells’s ''The War of the Worlds'' (1898) in which Wells describes the aliens from Mars. Some specialists credit Hemlal Dutta as one of the earliest Bengali science fiction writers for his ''Rohosso'' (''The Mystery''). This story was published in two installments in 1882 in the pictorial magazine ''Bigyan Dorpon'' (''Mirror of Science''). Jagadish Chandra Bose, now considered as the father of Bengali science fiction, wrote ''Niruddesher Kahini'' in 1896. This tale of weather control, one of the first Bengali science fiction works, features getting rid of a cyclone using a little bottle of hair oil (Kuntol Keshori). Later, he included the story with changes in the collection of essays titled ''Abyakto' (1921) ' as ''Palatak Tufan'' (''Runaway Cyclone''). Both versions of the story have been translated into English by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay.〔 Roquia Sakhawat Hussain (Begum Rokeya), an early Islamic feminist, wrote ''Sultana's Dream'', one of the earliest examples of feminist science fiction in any language. It depicts a feminist utopia of role reversal, in which men are locked away in seclusion, in a manner corresponding to the traditional Muslim practice of purdah for women. The short story, written in English, was first published in the Madras-based ''Indian Ladies Magazine'' in 1905, and three years later appeared as a book. Premendra Mitra wrote the first novel, ''Kuhoker Deshe'' (''In the Land of Mystery''). Hemendra Kumar Ray wrote ''Meghduter Morte Agomon''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bengali science fiction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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