Sentences with phrase «at science fiction»

«We are looking at science fiction becoming reality in a self - driving car,» Gov. Jerry Brown said last Tuesday when he signed a bill that would allow self - driving cars on California's roads.

«We're looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow's reality,» Brown told the crowd.

There were many early attempts at a science fiction tabletop RPG but none of them stuck until 1977's Traveller, created by Marc Miller and published by his company Game Designer's Workshop.

(Look at the science fiction list on Amazon right now.

The winners were announced at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's 52nd Annual Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, which took place from Thursday, May 17th through Sunday, May 20th at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center.

Real scientists look at science fiction and sometimes find ways to turn the imagined science into something real and useful.

Victoria Strauss at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's (SFWA) Writer Beware blog writes in Random House Announces New Terms at Digital Imprints Hydra, Alibi, Loveswept, and Flirt:

The only reason I will be in Tempe is that I am a speaker at a science fiction convention there in April.

She's always been interested in writing, first trying her hand at science fiction, then dabbling into mysteries and adventure stories.

10:35 am — IFC — Sleeper One of Woody Allen's early films, and a rare attempt at science fiction, has meek Miles Monroe cryogenically frozen only to wake in a totalitarian future as part of a radical movement to overthrow the government.

As such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Nearly twenty years after their hit TV seriers was canceled, the five stars of «Galaxy Quest» are still in costume, making appearances at science fiction conventions for their legions of die - hard...

January 19 Seattle's EMP Museum screens over a dozen sci - fi flicks at the Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival, including one that chronicles a feline space mission.

He also tries his hand at science fiction from time to time.

Not exact matches

Yet, while both are at the height of hype in the tech world, much of the general public still has trouble believing either has progressed beyond the realm of science - fiction.

That scenario isn't science fiction in the slightest, the new study by Sandra Matz at Columbia Business School shows.

«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.

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

Ten interactive exhibits and galleries at MoPOP, Seattle's Museum of Popular Culture (formerly the EMP) offer visitors a far - ranging tour of music history, contemporary pop culture, science fiction, fantasy and a variety of offbeat trends.

Meanwhile, social media was buzzing after images emerged of Trump placing his hands on a glowing orb at the inauguration ceremony of a new center for combating extremist ideology — instigating comparisons from fantasy epics to science fiction.

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.

But as this technology evolves at increased speed, the line between science fiction and reality gets thinner and thinner.

Fortune decided to take a look at the 10 highest - grossing science - fiction movies of all time, using data from Box Office Mojo and adjusting for inflation.

Mackey, a voracious reader, often has seven or eight books going at a time spanning from science fiction to economic theory.

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.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp. are among the space heavyweights developing experimental aircraft that could fly U.S. travelers at speeds right out of a science fiction movie.

Outside the office Jason is a lover of science fiction and the outdoors, and an amateur squash player at best.

At least with Scientology, there's absolutely no excuse for believing its nonsense when its founder was a prolific science - fiction writer.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

Problem is, MikeB, your idiotic bible is contradicted by science at every turn of the page of your crazy work of fiction.

At the very least try to come up with something a little more scientific and less Science fiction.

Scientology roots are in Hubbard science fiction writings and techniques he supposedly stole from the occult organization the OTO, which at the time was run by Aleister Crowley in the UK and Hubbards contact was John aka Jack Whitesides Parson who ran the the Agape Lodge in Los Angeles.

This adjustment would have made it clearer what Carter — who teaches at the University of Arizona and who has written learnedly on the eras of Grant, Coolidge, and Eisenhower, as well as on such disparate subjects as Antarctica and science fiction — was up to.

Science fiction author Ray Bradbury, who turns 90 this month, says he will sometimes open one of his books late at night and cry out thanks to God.

Luckily, scientists are entirely at home with both science fiction and insanity.

The governor Tuesday delivers his much anticipated annual budget message, which should bring some measure of reality or at least clarity to the murky science fiction uttered at his annual State of the State address 10 days ago.

At day's end, Pereira - Smith finally quiets down by reading a science - fiction novel or spy thriller before falling asleep.

ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.

With no complete, fully intact DNA specimen, that scenario is still way beyond our current technology, Rubin says: «It's at the outer realm of science fiction.»

Scientific American, the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S., Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal, and Tor Books, the leading science fiction and fantasy publisher, are media partners for the contest run by the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore.

The science - fiction fantasy of teleportation became reality this year, at least on the atomic scale.

WORLD building is at the heart of great science fiction, but it can be tricky at less than book length.

«If successful, a global quantum - communication network will no longer be a science fiction,» says Pan Jian - wei, a physicist at the CAS's University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and the mission's principal investscience fiction,» says Pan Jian - wei, a physicist at the CAS's University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and the mission's principal investScience and Technology of China in Hefei and the mission's principal investigator.

While at Towers Perrin, Buff had come up with an idea for a science fiction novel.

What he's doing now: Buff is back at work on a new novel, a more science fiction — oriented one this time.

But I landed intact at my destination, a spot within Gale Crater named after science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.

An image like Princess Leia «is no longer science fiction, it is something you can do today», he said at a press conference.

That may sound like science fiction, but the Church lab at Harvard has already changed portions of the genetic code of E. coli bacteria to repel viral attacks.

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No longer constrained to science fiction, the search for new extrasolar planets is accelerating at an incredible rate uncovering new worlds, some of them potentially habitable.