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Sci-fi getting popular

Staff Correspondent
Science fiction is gaining popularity among the readers of the country, evident by the crowd at stalls selling this genre of books at the Amar Ekushey Granthamela-2015.
The first books Ibneha Yousuf and Sadman Sadaf, who visited the fair with their father yesterday, bought were science fiction.
“I find them interesting," said Sadman, student of Class-V, after his father bought him one of Mostaq Ahmed's sci-fi books from Nalonda.
"Mostaq Ahmed's books sell almost 50 copies on average daily,' said Manager of Nalonda Shottojit Kumar Deb. "We started
selling science fiction in 2006, and its demand has been increasing ever since."
The writer too feels that sci-fi books are becoming popular because it is the era of science.
President of Bangladesh Science Fiction Society, Mostaq began writing in this field because of his own science background.
"The scope of imagination is greater in this genre and you can think a lot about the future, "he said.
The society was created in December last year, aiming to make science popular among people and this year it launched 10 sci-fi books by 10 writers at the fair.
"From next year we will try to bring at least one book by a new sci-fi writer to the fair or get a collection of works in this field published from our society," Ahmed said.
The society has also planned to bring
out a science fiction magazine from April this year, he added.
For this year's fair Ahmed wrote "Gito" published by Nalonda, "Project Hyper” by Anya Prokash and his “Ribit" series is available at Anindya Prokash.
Till date 28 science fiction books by different writers of the country have arrived at the fair.
However, translations of classics of this genre by writers such as Issac Asimov, HG Wells can also be found in the fair especially at Seba Prokashani and Sandesh.
Science fiction was made popular in this country by noted academician Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, though according to him, it was his brother Humayun Ahmed who first presented this genre to Bangladeshi readers.
Yesterday 99 new books arrived at the fair and 11 new ones were launched.