Sentences with phrase «about science fiction»

I blog about science fiction and fantasy books for kids and teens, with a smattering of other genres.

Richard Howard writes about science fiction, weird fiction and critical theory.

The Atlantic published a conversation with author N.K. Jemisin, the recent Hugo Award - winner, about science fiction, race, gender, power, and Trumpism.

That was a title that took a lot of ideas about science fiction, monster movies and psychological horror and twisted them into something genuinely thrilling and unusual.

Perhaps they're hoping that people will get all geeked out about science fiction action movies.

Further fusions of creators were planned, with Dave Gibbons and J.C. Mézières talking about science fiction and also drawing live on stage, while a variety of talks including ones by Audrey Niffenegger, Andre Juillard and Yves Sente, and Anthea Bell, the woman who translates Asterix, are all forthcoming.

And Red Dwarf taught me about science fiction.

With incredible creativity, sharp humor, and deep empathy, John Whaley creates a story that is much less about the science fiction of coming back to life and more about living life in the present.

This hefty book is less about science fiction than it is about relationships.Yes, most of the action does take place on another planet, but that is not the real focus of the book.

With incredible creativity, sharp humor, and deep empathy, Whaley creates a story that is much less about the science fiction of coming back to life and more about living life in the present.

Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is a monthly television series about the science fiction genre — created by science fiction fans for science fiction fans.

Such kind of books are so more useful for us and there have so more opportunities to learn about science fiction.

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He talked about science fiction things such as skywriting, video conferencing, electric submarines, tasers, lunar exploration, television and Tivo many years before they ever became «real».

Infinity War wasn't actually hard for me to follow, but that's only because I've been writing about science fiction and comic book movies for nearly a decade, and understanding this minutia is my job.

But we decided not to do what we did with HOT FUZZ, which was to watch a lot of films, because we decided we didn't need to learn any kind of language of cinema — we weren't going to make any comments about science fiction or make any references to other films.

His other books include «The Dream Team - The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood» (2006), «I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies» (2008) and «Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction movies» (2011).

In a tone of deep seriousness that sounds practically professorial, scifi author Neal Stephenson shared some grave thoughts a couple of months ago about science fiction actors.

«But the thing about science fiction and fantasy is that you can never, ever say it's the end, it's over.»

A few years back I met up with him for an interview about Dredd, and we talked a lot about science fiction, and how the genre pushes itself forward.

Real Steel is what happens when people who know nothing about science fiction make a science fiction movie...

The game offers a new interesting plot about the science fiction universe in a post-human scenario trying to explain the truth about the last Era and the Creator.

After all, a programmer that respects himself should A talk show about science fiction, fantasy, and geekery of all kinds

Not exact matches

The series, now produced by Netflix, presents science - fiction short films about how tech could change the world in the near future.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

I really like speculative science fiction, and the book is close enough to now to have some reality to it — it's about environmental disasters.

General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, Fiat - Chrysler, BMW, and just about every other auto company are wading — some cautiously and some with big, headline - grabbing moves — into territory that executives in Detroit and elsewhere not long ago considered a science - fiction fantasy.

I became obsessed with radical science, the future of technology, the future of biotech... I was reading very interesting scientists and authors that were speaking about ideas of singularity, and life extension, and science fiction.

When one man who has disrupted the energy, automotive and space industries, and another who connected nearly 2 billion individuals in the same social network, make major moves in neuroscience, somehow it feels like science fiction is evolving into history, and that our lives are about to change in unprecedented ways.

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

The prolific science - fiction author Ray Bradbury collected the lessons he had learned about the craft during his long and successful career in Zen in the Art of Writing.

How I Did it,» about how he became the man behind companies making science fiction come true: the X Prize Foundation, Singularity University, Human Longevity Inc..

What it's about: The highest - grossing movie of all time — by far — «Avatar» is a science - fiction epic where a paraplegic marine inhabits another body to live on the moon of another planet and ingratiate himself into another population.

At the Manhattan presentation, Mr. Schneider readily acknowledged that the notion of asteroid mining sounds like science fiction and that he often gets quizzical questions about why Luxembourg is spending money chasing this.

He also used science fiction and children's stories as literary bridges to explore age - old questions about sin, forgiveness, and reconciliation with God.

This is what I love so much about storytelling, especially fantasy and science fiction: When the ordinary is depicted in an unfamiliar world, the contrast helps it stand out, helps us grasp it and learn to value it again.

Because science has kind of proven or talked about all those things you were just asking... maybe pick up a book other than a work of fiction and learn something that's real and tangible.

Although generally categorized as a novel for young readers, this Newbery award - winner and science fiction classic, grapple with adult - sized questions about the nature of God and the existence of evil.

It follows in the footsteps of the very best of the science fiction genre in forcing us to ask uncomfortable questions about the world we live in.

L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer back in the days when science fiction was worth about two cents a word, is said to have decreed to a gathering of fellow writers that religion was where the real money could be found.

My dad's a real science fiction freak, he's the one that kind of got me into that, thinking about aliens.

I had called Ray Bradbury's daughter to tell her that I wanted to write about a different side of her father: What did this science fiction giant think about God and the afterlife?

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

You see where this is going, and it's not like I'm going to write science fiction about how the 2018 Nationals become the worst team in the league.

There are so many great fiction and non-fiction books about science.

The puzzle - adventure games and animated stories are definitely tween oriented with a science fiction - adventure type look, and are framed on story arcs that convey messages about altruism, community, and science.

Yet again, while Mr. Cuomo said last week that the Legionnaires» outbreak was like a science fiction movie, Mr. de Blasio has sought to downplay the risks — growing frustrated with questions about how many towers had tested positive.

He's also the author of two near future science fiction thrillers, Nexus and Crux, about a technology that links minds and the struggle to control it.

Authors of «hard» science fiction answer that question by speculating about where current scientific thinking might lead us.

About this Exhibition: Fantastic Worlds Science and Fiction 1780 — 1910 National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.; through October 2016