Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic novel»
The title of the series and exhibition is a quotation from Russell Hoban's post nuclear - apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker.
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The word alone sounds like something best left to an apocalyptic novel, but the sad reality is that nearly 800,000 people filed for bankruptcy in 2016.
It is a post apocalyptic novel with a twist.
This is a completely implausible apocalyptic novel where the world is falling apart and a man builds an ark for his family and 500 people, which leave
«A nicely different approach to the apocalyptic novel from the author of The Terror; try it.»
May brings a new Sookie Stackhouse mystery from Charlaine Harris; June, the anticipated vampire / apocalyptic novel The Passage by Justin Cronin (see an earlier post on Cronin here)... shall I go on?
NEWS ITEM # 3: The film version of McCarthy's devastating apocalyptic novel, The Road, now has a firm release date (October 16) and an official trailer.
Details have been announced today about the latest Stephen King movie adaptation currently in the works, this time in the form of his apocalyptic novel, CELL - and good news (well, maybe)... it'll be starring John Cusack!
Affleck turned them all down, but finally bit when «Harry Potter» helmer David Yates stepped out of a brewing multi-part adaptation of Stephen King «s classic apocalyptic novel «The Stand.»
Director / producer Robert Aldrich's evocation of popular pulp writer Mickey Spillane's apocalyptic novel (with a script from A.I. Bezzerides) has dazzled critics and influenced directors from the French New Wave to Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg.
Warner's also recently tapped Affleck to adapt and direct Stephen King's mammoth apocalyptic novel The Stand.
Screen adaptation of Max Brooks» apocalyptic novel about a globetrotting, United Nations investigator (Brad Pitt) who rises to the occasion in the face of a zombie pandemic that's toppling governments and threatening humanity with extinction.
Inspired by an apocalyptic novel, «The Turner Diaries» by William Luther Pierce, an offshoot of the nationalist movement formed a militia called The Order and, among other acts, murdered liberal talk radio host Alan Berg.
Even in such an apocalyptic novel as Love in the Ruins (1971), what fails to happen — a Louisiana version of Armageddon — is far more important than Dr. Thomas More's desperate attempts to stave off Mephistophelian evil.
How about the marvelous apocalyptic novels by Michael D. O'Brien (published by Ignatius), which, like LaHaye, purport to give plausible scenarios for end «time events?
A great classic adventure game with an amazing retro art style and unusual story set in a rare fantasy world that connects science - finstion and post apocalyptic novels
Not exact matches
These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.
This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).
Set during the week of July 4, 1983 — at the apocalyptic edge of Orwell's predicted end of the modern experiment — the novel seemed a piece of zany hyperbole when it was published in 1971.
If the power as well as the presence of God has been seen to be missing from the ongoing historical drama in the apocalyptic writings, there is now a concentration on this reclaimed power and presence in a strikingly novel way.
In the August issue of Bible Review magazine, Witherington noted the popular appeal that apocalyptic literature has in unsettling times, «Unfortunately, not all apocalyptic thinking is good apocalyptic thinking, and this is especially true of the so - called dispensational theology that informs these novels,» Witherington wrote.
The bestselling Left Behind novels, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins between 1995 and 2007, dramatize the premillennial view of the End Times favored by earlier generations of American fundamentalists, in which Christ «raptures» his followers to heaven before a series of apocalyptic events unfold on earth.
It is in this peculiar tension between the future and the present that Jesus introduces a novel element ultimately destructive of the apocalyptic framework within which most of the New Testament is articulated.
▪ Watchmen, an apocalyptic graphic novel («a fancy way of saying it's a big comic book») that is due out as a movie in March
He's the author of two novels, BETA TEST («an unusually lighthearted apocalyptic tale» — Publishers» Weekly) an... See Full Bio
The attractive graphic novel cut scenes, devastating electrical attacks, a moody soundtrack and a sprawling post apocalyptic metropolis make inFAMOUS a welcome addition to the PlayStation 3 library.
Neither the director nor stars Will and Jaden Smith will be there, but screenwriter Gary Whitta will host a panel that promises to focus as much, if not more, on the comic - book spin - offs and prequel novels that will precede the apocalyptic sci - fi film's release.
From the director of Quantum of Solace and Machine Gun Preacher comes the highly anticipated movie starring Brad Pitt that's loosely based on the 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks.
However, just such a novel scenario provides the intriguing premise for Legion, a blasphemous, apocalyptic adventure certain at least to delight the atheist demographic.
To date, I've written novels with the apocalyptic Horseman Pestilence as the hero.
Mary Shelley's 1826 novel, The Last Man, is considered to be the first work of modern apocalyptic fiction.
Mixing a trauma reckoning with dark, apocalyptic fantasy and notes of psychological horror, this commandeering novel's multiplicity is elusively complex yet never complicated: although the many gut - quivering story elements are not clearly defined, they always speak to each other, and Smith wisely leaves much up to the reader.
Especially inspiring was Robert Slater, who had a great success with his apocalyptic YA novel All Is Silence, said Village Books general manager Paul Hanson.
My first three novels, a series of apocalyptic thrillers known as the Plague Year trilogy, were published by Ace / Penguin Group USA.
«No Such Thing as Werewolves» is a science fiction novel that brings together ancient civilizations, an apocalyptic threat, and werewolves — the result is a story that's tense and exciting...»
By popular demand of beta readers and friends, my first novel, a post apocalyptic science fiction novel, is back on the docket.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is the fourth instalment of the popular Telltale series based on the Walking Dead graphic novels and is the third season in the story that follows Clementine on her path to surviving the apocalyptic world filled with infected walkers while scavenging the limited resources and secure shelter.
The attractive graphic novel cut scenes, devastating electrical attacks, a moody soundtrack and a sprawling post apocalyptic metropolis make inFAMOUS a welcome addition to the PlayStation 3 library.
The new Tate Modern installation involves a gigantic replica of a Louise Bourgeois spider, rows of bleak metal bunk beds with paperback science fiction novels laid out on them, and a screen showing a montage of disaster and apocalyptic footage.
Although he's an altogether different kind of artist, the literary critic Gregory Stephenson stated the following in an article on the darkly apocalyptic and conspiratorial Robert Stone novel Damascus Gate.
Sara Kenney has a much more apocalyptic view, in her new graphic novel Surgeon X.