Sentences with phrase «around science fiction»

Beyond the Barrier, guest curated by Kate Greenberg and part of Baxter St at CCNY's Guest Curators Program, seeks to highlight contemporary work being made by a group of emerging artists around science fiction themes.

Director Alex Garland knows his way around a science fiction plot, but Annihilation is his most ambitious yet precisely because of what it leaves out.

Across several releases, including 2010's The ArchAndroid and 2013's The Electric Lady, Monáe has maintained an air of mystery, crafting intricate worlds built around science fiction.

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Nevertheless, lots of this is kind of science - fiction speculation, and the best we can do is try to follow Jesus as best we can whatever is going on around us.

May 25: Towel Day Wielding «the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have,» join Hitchhiker's Guide fans around the world to celebrate Douglas Adams» contributions to science fiction.

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

Publications around the world proclaimed the imminence of those familiar science fiction staples: surgically implanted devices that electronically monitor and manipulate our minds.

The concept of synthesizing life has been around for quite a while in scientific — and science fiction — literature, but only in the past 5 years have rapid advances in DNA synthesis techniques allowed the field to crystallize.

Science fiction writers, beginning with Arthur C. Clarke in his 1979 novel, The Fountains of Paradise, and a few engineers have kicked around fantastic notions of a space elevator for years.

«It's almost science fiction to be driving around antimatter in a truck,» says Charles Horowitz, a theoretical nuclear physicist at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Publications around the world proclaimed the imminence of those familiar science - fiction staples, surgically implanted devices that electronically monitor and manipulate our minds.

Cloaking jumped from science fiction to science in 2006, when theorists predicted that light could be funneled around an object to make it undetectable.

The exhibition's dramatically lit opening text informs visitors that after a long time on the fringe, «Science fiction is now all around us.»

A few months ago, Third Flatiron Publishing (which does quarterly science fiction anthologies) announced that their Spring 2015 anthology would be themed around world - altering events.

At around the same time, I began to experiment with writing science fiction.

«Tau Ceti has been a popular destination for science fiction writers and everyone's imagination as somewhere there could possibly be life, but even though life around Tau Ceti may be unlikely, it should not be seen as a letdown, but should invigorate our minds to consider what exotic planets likely orbit the star, and the new and unusual planets that may exist in this vast universe,» says Pagano.

Together with the Foundation's Directors, Advisory Board and staff, Rod pursues the goal of turning science fiction into science fact by providing critical support to leading - edge organizations around the world working in the areas of science and technology, the environment, education and humanitarian advances.

It's a throwback to the pre-Star Wars science fiction of the 1970s, the kind with a lot of jump suits and hexagonal furniture lying around.

Autómata is yet another film that would be considered a science - fiction film revolving around a dystopian future.

Sure, there are plenty of loose ends and logic loopholes to have to contend with, but with fine performances, a nifty plot, and solid production values all around, Deja Vu overcomes familiar story elements to deliver a lively and interesting thriller for those who enjoy mysteries mixed with fantasy and science fiction elements.

Alex Garland's second directorial effort again lands itself in the science - fiction genre, though this time around it is not as easy to explain.

Netflix staged one of the most anticipated events of this summer's Television Critics Association press tour: A panel on Stranger Things, the throwback thriller that channels elements of 1980s horror and science - fiction cinema to depict the mysterious happenings in and around a small Midwestern town in 1983.

There actually is a story (savvy science fiction addicts have compared it to the similarly - premised 1951 short story, «The Marching Morons», by Cyril Kornbluth) within the film, revolving around an average - intellect military librarian named Joe (average Joe, get it?)

With just three actors, minimal special effects, and few locations, McDowell creates a bizarre science - fiction universe that revolves around a mysterious break in the space - time continuum.

Starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig, the science fiction comedy - drama centers around Paul (Damon) and his wife Audrey (Wiig), who have decided to join a community of miniaturized people after undergoing a process to shrink themselves.

There's a particular kind of genre film that's always been able to transcend the boundaries around fantasy or science fiction to capture the hearts and minds of the Academy and this year was no exception.

Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion «s crowdfunded web series centers around a fictional science - fiction TV series titled «Spectrum,» which starred both Tudyk and Fillion's characters.

The Pros: Orson Scott Card «s «Ender's Game» is one of the most beloved science fiction novels around, and Summit are hoping to do for hard sci - fi what they did for vampires with «Twilight,» with this long - in - the - works adaptation, directed by «Wolverine» helmer Gavin Hood, and produced by «Star Trek» supremos Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci.

Nonetheless, the irresistible central couple carry the movie through and its tendency to leap around between science fiction, romance and political thriller means that it has a lot to offer many different viewers.

Rumours of a sequel to Nick Castle's beloved science - fiction adventure film, starring Lance Guest and Catherine Mary Stewart (with a scene - stealing cameo by Robert Preston), have been around for years — and not surprisingly.

Instructions for; planting peas - science link Making a secret ink message - history link Trapping a wild thing - fiction Making jam sandwich - Dt link amd T4W unit How to be king of Wild thing - English MANY opportunities to read around the genre to develop writer toolkit.

Underneath that science - fiction skin is a supercar built around a carbon - fiber passenger cell.

Considering that genre fiction is thought to sell so much more readily than literary, I'm always surprised at the vehemence with which some people will describe literary fiction as boring and «pretentious» — as if vampires prancing around in ill - researched period costumes aren't pretentious in their own fashion; as if utterly implausible science fiction isn't a form of pretension at warp speed.

To call this science fiction is a slight misnomer, as it's a love story — just with some of the thought processes around it tying love into the greater whole of the universe (or multiverse).

In 1999, a good friend of mine who I'd loaned a science fiction novel to commented that he expected that in 10 years we'd be walking around with electrodes in our heads, fully immersed in a William Gibson - style cyberspace.

Wilkinson Studios represents artists from around the globe, and can help you find the perfect illustrator for your self - published book, whether it's a children's book, YA or adult novel cover, fantasy, science fiction, graphic novel, comic book, scientific publication, or educational work.

About the Author: Gregory D. LittleRocket scientist by day, fantasy and science fiction author by night, Gregory D. Little began his writing career in high school when he and his friend wrote Star Wars fanfic before it was cool, passing a notebook around between (all right, during) classes.

Gibson, Neil Stevenson and Bruce Sterling all started their careers around the same time and really pioneered the modern science fiction genre.

Under her own name and the pseudonym «Mira Grant,» she has been translated into languages around the globe, and has won some of the highest awards in science fiction, including the Campbell, Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Awards.

Rocket scientist by day, fantasy and science fiction author by night, Gregory D. Little began his writing career in high school when he and his friend wrote Star Wars fanfic before it was cool, passing a notebook around between (sometimes during) classes.

The acclaimed author is considered the father of science fiction and wrote many novels, some of the most well - known being Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, and, of course, Around the World in Eighty Days which plays an important part in Matthew Goodman's Eighty Days.

My mom had some pretty steamy romance novels kicking around, and I read plenty of those when I ran out of science fiction and fantasy and horror.

While their word count range is 100 to 1,500 words, they're especially eager to get flash fiction series (several flash stories based around a central theme), science fiction, fantasy, and slipstream.

The Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA)-- is an organization formed for artistic, literary, educational and charitable purposes centered around the visual arts of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mythology...

Ten thousand entries came in from around the world — the most entries ever in the history of the contest — and after several rounds of judging, Amazon Publishing has selected one winner in each of five categories: general fiction, mystery / thriller, romance, science fiction / fantasy / horror and young adult fiction.

The science fiction paranormal mystery develops around an unlikely group of high school students brought together by protagonist Tom Patterson and his childhood friend Justin Fischer.

This 431 - page anthology offers some of the best «steampunk» science fiction around — including a short story by William Gibson, and another by «original» steampunk author, H.G. Wells.

Ian Martyn presents Where to go for inspiration — a few ideas posted at Ian Martyn — Science Fiction Writer, saying, «I can't say I have ever suffered from writers block, but I do admit that from time to time I scratch around for inspiration for my blog / short stories / novels.

Something like Steampunk tends to float around from Historical to Science Fiction to Adventure.

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