Sentences with phrase «author of the time machine»

But a researcher just found an unknown ghost story by the legendary author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and several other classics.

Not exact matches

In a 2014 op - ed in the New York Times, Terry Golway, author of «Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern Politics» argued that although Tammany «has a well - deserved place in the annals of urban misgovernment in the United States» because it stole elections, intimidated political antagonists, and shook down contractors and vendors, it also delivered social services at a time when New York City government and Albany did not.

«Our approach, called FabRec, would allow companies to automatically report about their manufacturing activities: which machines are being used, what materials they are working with, raw material inventory levels, whether the work is being completed on time, and so on,» says Atin Angrish, a Ph.D. student at NC State and first author of the paper.

«For every author who meticulously examines the latest developments in physics or computing, there are other authors who invent «impossible» technology to serve as a plot device (like Le Guin's faster - than - light communicator, the ansible) or to enable social commentary, the way H. G. Wells uses his time machine to take the reader to the far future to witness the calamitous destiny of the human race.»

I especially liked the comment from Hugh and Data Guy, «Our advice to an aspiring author today might be to do one of two things: either build a time machine and travel ten years into the past to query their work — or self - publish today.»

- Jeff VanderMeer, bestselling author of The Southern Reach Trilogy «Is it a time machine?

I mean, I know I've been told a million times how critical it is to me as an author, but how about as a consumer of books, as opposed to a shameless self - promotion machine?

10th - anniversary edition of SF novel about a machine that makes possible both teleportation and time travel, in which the author is a character.

With selection of authors drawn with equal likelihood of either gender then a random guessing machine making 1,045 guesses would expect to get an average of 522 correct answers and if it repeated the experiment many times we would expect 95 % of the results to lie between 490 and 554 correct answers.

Written by New York Times Best Selling Author Jim DeFelice, the story follows the path of Kuma, a cybernetically enhanced killing machine with a bear's head who was made for one purpose, to kill Afro.

Seems that Brother laser printers, the author's model at the time of writing, have an evil eye that senses when the toner falls below a certain level and causes the machine to down tools.

Although McAfee confessed to knowing little about the legal field, the author of The Second Machine Age (affiliate link), a New York Times bestseller, nonetheless captivated the tech - loving audience with his talk on the rapidly accelerating power of technology and the characteristics of the companies that successfully use that power to disrupt their industries.

The authors of The Second Machine Age: Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies, say that, in spite of all the progress we have seen so far, digital communications are only now realising their potential.