Sentences with phrase «as science fiction»

Your book may not fit neatly into an obvious genre such as science fiction, historical fiction, crime or romance.

I am a retired civil engineer working on a second career as a science fiction writer.

The programme's broad appeal attracts audiences of children and families as well as science fiction fans.

It's described as both science fiction and a political thriller.

Still, it is worth watching as a science fiction thriller that should have been a classic.

Ultimately, 2001 has endured as a science fiction classic for years - love it or hate it, it deserves to be seen.

Her name is known as a science fiction and fantasy writer.

It came to me with a reputation as a science fiction «classic».

This is as sharp a film as science fiction gets.

That is about as science fiction - y the movie gets.

An all in one dog grooming tool and surface cleaner, this has the additional benefit of doing double duty as a science fiction prop.

These writers, mostly in small genres such as science fiction or horror or literature couldn't make a living either.

As a science fiction writer it was pleasure to work with an editor who understands multiple genres.

Although we are open to most genres, we focus on publishing children's picture books, as well as science fiction and fantasy.

I got classified as a science fiction writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady, New York.

Howey sees something else here, however: «I think it means that a sustained and profitable career as a science fiction author is more likely, these days, to have its origin in self - publishing.»

Engaging interests such as science fiction writing, psychology, and the occult, Yackulic's work manifests as artist's books, painting, works on paper, and zines, employing techniques including letterpress, staining, and xerography.

As far as science fiction movies go, Andrew Niccol's «In Time» features one of the more intriguing premises in recent years, which only makes its poor execution that much more disappointing.

It's described as a science fiction film with «a Cloverfield feel and a contained budget, [involving] aliens.»

«As a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, told Inc. in January.

Looking at the very real and compelling science behind an idea once seen as science fiction, How to Clone a Mammoth demonstrates how de-extinction will redefine conservation's future.

Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One is being billed as a science fiction adventure, which makes sense.

He is generally categorized as a science fiction writer, and his work, often featuring futuristic settings, speculative technology and mind - bending realities, for the most part slots into that genre.

, and while the story was thought of mainly as science fiction when it first appeared, there's no doubt that it throws hard - boiled detectives into the blender along with robots and other sf trappings.

Ask about opportunities, or approach the librarian about starting a club that might appeal to local tweens — such as a science fiction club, local history club, or a non-fiction writing club.

Stephen Hawking publishes children's book Stephen Hawking, wheelchair - bound physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, this week published his first children's book in an expected trilogy, designed, he told reporters, to make «real science as exciting as science fiction.»

The idea of a telephone that displays pictures as well as relaying sound is as old as science fiction.

Emily Lakdawalla explains why asteroids don't look at scary as science fiction told us they would.

Annihilation is best viewed as a trip deep into an otherworldly house of horrors, offering a deliberately illogical twist on the formula of horror movie storytelling — because when assessed as a science fiction movie, its lack of weighty ideas makes it pale in comparison to both its influences and Garland's prior work.

Indeed, when the credits finally rolled, I felt as though I'd just witnessed someone pulling off a darkly clever magic trick: with very few forays into territory that'd be immediately identifiable as science fiction, Under The Skin offers viewers a two hour experience that feels absolutely, unsettlingly alien.

It is simultaneously more human than those movies, but decisively more alien as well: Our existence on this lonely planet as science fiction.

The questions get bigger still in the final chapters, which concern the nature of being human and the idea that, just as the science fiction writers of yesteryear couldn't predict this modern world, we don't know if people, sentient robots, and unforeseeable next - gen tech will play nicely together.

It is however difficult to think of this 1978 movie directed by Michael Crichton as science fiction.

ANDERSON: We've never seen them as zombie movies as much as science fiction thrillers.

From that point on, the story is oftentimes fashioned more as a science fiction fantasy, rather than a relatable Superman one.

Perhaps this might be, by far, the best episode of the series, if it were to be one, but taken as a science fiction film on its own terms, instead of a TV episode made for the big screen, it is mostly a middling effort.

It's also a father - son bondathon and a wistful, cockeyed tribute to a rural homespun sensibility that, for present - day urbanites at least, can seem as emotionally remote as science fiction.

«Man of Steel» excels at reclaiming the Superman saga as science fiction by conceiving alien landscapes that look like they originated on the cover of a»30s pulp magazine.

If you're worried that Snowpiercer might be too cerebral and dull, be assured that the movie works as both science fiction drama and action movie.

Brainstorm never lives up to its intriguing premise, but it is still much more interesting than most of what passes as science fiction nowadays.

Electives in English, for example, include such courses as science fiction, the bible as literature and Shakespeare.

«The Homecoming Saga» (the novels The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth, The Ships of Earth, Earthfall, and Earthborn) was a retelling of ancient scripture as science fiction.

Meryl is currently working on the fourth book in The Catmage Chronicles, Darkness Exultant, as well as a science fiction YA dystopia (because the world needs yet another one of those), a romantic comedy, and whatever else comes out of the cauldron of story -LSB-...]

They were known as the Science Fiction Achievement Awards until 1992.

There are plenty of imprints such as science fiction specialized TOR.

It's classified as a Science Fiction anthology and is 374 kb and rated 5 stars on 3 reviews.

The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away... Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.

If a writer classifies his own book as science fiction, that tells me that even he doesn't think much of it.

There are a number of dystopian books available; most of them have been classed as science fiction.