Sci-Fi is Magic

Magic is the new real. And we need it. All art is a stretch of imagination and magic, well magic is the outstretched hand of this art of imagination.

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The origin of literature lies in the oral tradition of story telling and all around the globe, the stories told were all about wonderlands, imaginary creatures, fairies and talking animals in terse parables. It all went into words downloaded on papers, compiled into books. But then there came truth, hitting and bombing over art with wars and politics and revolutions. Things changed and magic went behind the curtains, hiding like a confused magician, an illusionist who fears his tricks might fail, a wizard who has forgotten his spells. Despite lights flashing all around or probably because of it the magic went underground in the dark alleys of shame and notoriety.  Yet magic has a life as ancient as the cave man its more real than reality itself. It came back with a masked face, fit for the times.

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X-Men, Superman, Star Wars, Stranger Things, Iron Man, Captain America, Zombies, Vampires and post-apocalyptic creatures of all kinds: it’s all magic. Sci-fi? It is science, right? Magic is science. It is a combination of impossible possibilities; ‘What ifs’ and ‘imagine this' make up a world, a lab for magic to propose what may unfold to be the new real. Science is magical. We all agree. Until the phones and Bell, we assumed it fantastic to be able to talk over miles without coming face to face. A walk on moon was for the little prince who lived there and so on so forth. Sci-fi is the new mask of magic. Magic will stay true as long as it adapts the norms of the new world and viola! That is what magic is, stage adaptions of the most fantastic kinds.

 

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BaSila Hasnain

11-10-2020