INASCIFI BLOG

Inascifi’s creation was based on the founder (I myself) frustration toward the Indonesian paradigm and view toward the science fiction genre.

I myself felt benefit by the genre in many aspects.

Reading the novel Starship Troopers (by Robert A. Heinlein) helped me understand civics, the nature of human spirit and violent tendency, and the necessity to sacrifice one’s own self for the benefit of others.

The Star Trek franchise gave me a good idea what a brighter and better future would be for mankind once we eliminate poverty and starvation through economic abundance.

The Star Wars saga gave a good story regarding good vs evil and the power of love and redemption.

The Bicentennial Man (based on the novella of the same title written by Isaac Asimov) helped me realize the value of human life, the simple biological processes we experience daily that we’ve often take for granted. The film also conveyed a wonderful message of love between a man and woman, though certain religious folks will find the concept very offensive.

The Stargate franchise, provoked the idea what if aliens who are so technological advanced came down to Earth in 6,000 BC and enslaved the human race. With their advanced technology, they build the Pyramids as their ships’ landing sites, and put themselves as gods upon the primitive humanity.

Quantum Leap, has a story of an altruistic scientist who want to do good in a world so filled with tears and sadness, and through time travel he disguised himself as an ordinary person who happen to be at the right place and right time, and changed history to the better and touch many lives in the process.

These stories… are quite complex and requires a good deal of intelligence to understand, and apparently not many Indonesians seem to appreciate this. Perhaps they do, but just never found the right channel to access news and information regarding ’science fiction’.

In the beginning,

there was ina_sci-fi.

Like many small electronic groups that formed in the virtual world, the community grew and shrank, and almost collapsed.

Then, the founder came up with the idea to shorten the name, to Inascifi.

The idea was to reduced the task of typing underscores ( _ ) and dashes ( - ) signs each time he sent an email to the group, and it worked.

The suddenly! Without warning, the founder’s father found himself being billed a good amount of American Dollars on his credit card. The founder bought the domain, inascifi.com .

It was a blessing in disguised. The Yahoo! provider allowed inascifi.com become a small business website, with many tools and emails and bandwidth space. But the main issue was not with the tools.

It was the tool user. He need time and concentration a large amount of fun in developing the website and community. Added with the burden as a research executive in a marketing research company, reduced his free time and creativity.

The science fiction community’s future was threaten.

< to be continued >

Officially today,
I’ll no longer posting any more on this blog.

Inascifi’s blog is moving to http://www.inascifi.com

The main reason is because we have long had our own domain.
Second is, I don’t want you readers to think of inascifi dot blogspot dot com. Wouldn’t it be faster to just type inascifi.com ?

See you on the other side!
-Arvin

Hi guys…
this Inascifi blog is now online.

Hmmm.. oh yeah, some of you may be wondering, what on earth is Inascifi?

Well, Inascifi is a group, previously known as ina_sci-fi, which was later renamed to Inascifi.
Inascifi simply stands for Indonesian science fiction.
A far fetched acronmy of Inascifi would be Information, News and Adventures regarding Science Fiction.

Well, to be honest with you gentle readers, Inascifi was actually an idea for Indonesians to have a place to discuss science fiction literature and related information, but for the past few years, there hasn’t been much activity in the group.

Recently, there has been a Facebook group, a Friendster group, and much earlier, a Yahoogroup.
We even have a website, inascifi.com, which can use some really good update.

Anyway, I’ll post more about Inascifi and some scifi related info.

Regards,
Arvin Nathanael Chandra