Sentences with phrase «age of science fiction»

The book is more than 1,000 pages long, and this recording runs more than 47 hours, but the cast (67 actors playing 198 roles), the 150,000 sound effects, and the original music composed for the recording make the audio possibly the best way to experience Hubbard's paean to the golden age of science fiction.

The time has come to hold the golden age of science fiction accountable for its fantastic promises.

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.

Not exact matches

There was no concept of «fact» or «fiction» until the worldview of science arose late in the middle ages.

When Peter Delfyett (pictured left) was in the first grade, his father took him to see the science fiction movie Journey to the Beginning of Time, a story about four boys who traveled back to the age of dinosaurs.

But even by the fanciful science fiction definition, the age of cyborgs is just around the corner.

Since the dawn of the Space Age, science fiction enthusiasts have fantasized about reusable rockets.

Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — in the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

Asimov was recognised as one of the three giants of the «golden age» of science fiction.

Now, Stanford is using NASA's vast video archives to venture into the realm of science fiction, and we've got the first look at his latest space - age music video.

... even though its increasingly camp elements have aged poorly, it deserves respect as one of the more ambitious, grandiose, and important science fiction adventures of its time.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

With the release of Stanley Kubrick's enigmatic space spectacle in 1968, the science - fiction film finally came of age.

Finally becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science - fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the»90s.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The metaphor of the «dirty computer» is as applicable to our society as it is to the futuristic one depicted in the «emotion picture» that Monáe released in conjunction with the album — mirroring our own day and age back to us, like all good science fiction.

(The elderly Ventura's claim to be «19 years, 3 months old» when asked his age early in the film connects directly to a later scene in an abandoned factory; mentions of a revolution that at first seem like science fiction are eventually revealed to be memories of the mid-1970s intruding into the present.

Edgar Wright's latest film, The World's End, arrives on a wave of critical praise centered primarily on how the film's science fiction elements reflect its characters» struggle with middle age.

Jason Statham (Spy, Furious 7, The Expendables films) and award - winning Chinese actress Li Bingbing (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Forbidden Kingdom, The Message) star in the science fiction action thriller The Meg, directed by Jon Turteltaub (the National Treasure movies, Last Vegas).

Plus, it's interesting to look at (see above image) and a nostalgia trip for middle - aged and younger (rabid) consumers of TV and movies, especially of the animation, superhero, action, science - fiction, and fantasy varieties.

In a new HD interview, special effects supervisor Colin Chilvers spends 16 minutes weighing in on the production, describing Stanley Donen's approach to the material and his relationship with John Barry, the difficulties of working with the robot and executing miniature FX on a tight budget («In those days, there was no such thing as a big - budget science - fiction movie,» he says), and even the age differential between Douglas and Fawcett.

Both an action - oriented science - fiction adventure and a wry commentary on today's world, it's imaginative entertainment for fantasy buffs of all ages.

4K Restoration DONNIE DARKO — DIRECTOR»S CUT Sun, April 30 7:45 p.m.; Mon, May 1, 9:20 p.m.; Thurs, May 4, 9:20 p.m. Richard Kelly described his debut feature as «The Catcher in the Rye» told by Philip K. Dick, and the film delivers, combining coming - of - age woes with high - concept science fiction.

The science fiction - ish twist in the spy thriller Criminal is ludicrous: Audiences are asked to believe that a mad scientist working for the CIA in this day - and - age can transplant memories from a dead agent's mind into the damaged brain of a notorious criminal.

Based on a popular graphic novel by Marasume Shirow and directed by Rupert Sanders («Snow White and the Huntsman»), Ghost in the Shell is a visually stunning experience with a fine core performance by Scarlett Johansson («Captain America: Civil War»), but it borrows so much of other, mostly better science fiction films and TV series, that charges of grand larceny should be levied against writers William Wheeler («Queen of Katwe»), Ehren Kruger («Transformers: Age of Extinction») and Jamie Moss («Street Kings»).

By framing «Man of Steel» as a coming - of - age story, Snyder is also able to tap the science - fiction unique to Superman that other superhero stories, like Batman, do not have.

In an age where the science fiction film genre has been dumbed down to a mere spectacle of loud explosions and special effects (like in Independence Day), Dark City stands out head and shoulders above the rest.

The Laser Age examines a rich period in the history of science - fiction filmmaking that began in the late 1960s and faded away by the mid-1980s.

Meanwhile, remember you can pre-order Between Mountain and Sea, my coming of age science fiction novel and Butler's Brother, the short story I collaborated on with my daughter, Ashley Angelly — both set in the Paradisi Chronicles universe.

Hiding Hand by Lee Denning is an Award - Winning Finalist and Honorable Mention in the category of Fiction - Science Fiction in the ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year Award and a finalist in the «New Age Fiction» category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.

Splintered Light by Lee Denning is an Award - Winning Finalist in the Fiction: New Age category as well as a finalist in the Fiction: Science Fiction category in the 2012 USA Best Book Awards and is also a finalist in the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the category of Adult Fiction - Religious.

It's a scale no American SF publication has reached since the Golden Age of magazine fiction publishing in the 1950s, when Amazing Stories defined Science Fiction as afiction publishing in the 1950s, when Amazing Stories defined Science Fiction as aFiction as a genre.

Hiding Hand is an Award - Winning Finalist and Honorable Mention in the category of Fiction - Science Fiction in the ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year Award and a finalist in the «New Age Fiction» category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.

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For example, his Pulitzer - winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay offers historical fiction along with a look at the Golden Age of comics, Jewish mysticism, and the importance of family, while The Yiddish Policeman's Union won multiple literary, mystery, and science - fiction awards for its blend of alternate history and noir in a story rich in characters, ideas, and polished prose.

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In fact, it's a dream project for a guy who fell in love with comics and science fiction at the age of six and never stopped loving them.

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With this kind of a design, I would certainly see a middle - aged reader of Star Trek tie - in novels to buy it more than a child... Don't get me wrong, I love the design and, although I don't read ST tie - in novels, I'm a huge science fiction reader.

Margaret Cavendish, one of the inventors of science fiction and one of the first successful female authors of the modern age, was unabashedly ambitious and wildly eccentric.

She is best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories who writes and teaches about how fantastic fiction might reflect real - world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors.

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