Sentences with phrase «best piece of fiction»

It's the best piece of fiction I've read in several years.

The only fact about the bible is that it's the best piece of fiction ever written.

Not exact matches

In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators of the science fiction show Westworld.

That bullshit might have worked when mankind was living in caves and a couple of thousand years ago when some desert dwellers wrote a crappy piece of fiction now called The Babble, but we now know better on many, many fronts.

The best part of all this discourse is that it serves as undeniable proof that God does exist and He created you all; if you truly believed that there is no need to worship God because He is a made up piece of fiction, would you actually spend this much time arguing over some ridiculous fallacy?

Superstar (Decca Records), etc., as well as of Peanuts cartoons and political cartoons, newspaper satire, and, occasionally, of short pieces of fiction and poetry on biblical themes.

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should.

The best thing about the film, though, is that even though it's all about real events and real people, it still feels like a very well - written piece of fiction — not to say it feels unrealistic, it's more to say that the characters are more developed and intriguing than in most biopics.

But his body of work runs the gamut from epic period pieces (Berlin Alexanderplatz, the BRD Trilogy) to dystopic science fiction (World on a Wire) as well.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

For those in the mood for this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptation.

This is every overly contrived, unrealistic and idealistic piece of trashy romance fiction when it had the prestige, the strength of casting and the intrigue to be a much better movie.

However, I can highly recommend A Piece of The World to anyone who enjoys well researched, engaging historical fiction.

Good writers can pack a universe into a piece of flash fiction and bad ones can write paper - thin characters and hackneyed prose across 200,000 words.

And my third piece will be to advice about a good image: the saying «never judge a book by its cover» was created by a lazy author who didn't give much thought of what really works in the marketing of both fiction and nonfiction.

He has published two novels, Riding the Brand and Virtually Dead, as well as several pieces of short fiction and two plays.

The potential for a renewed interest in short stories — stand - alone fiction that will no longer have to wait to be anthologized or published as a collection — as well as timely pieces of non-fiction on current world events means that readers without the time or inclination to tackle longer pieces of literature can now fill their reading needs with shorter and less pricey ebooks.

«Delightful examples of Donoghue's all - encompassing talent that should be read by fans of her period pieces as well as her gay audience - indeed, by anyone who cherishes thoughtful, warm - hearted fiction.»

«This well - written period piece may appeal more to readers of women's fiction than mystery fans.»

I won't pretend that every piece of fiction will change the world for the better, but I do like the fact that it's such a uniquely human endeavor.

A good piece of historical fiction is a taut balancing act, and Wein walks a high - wire in her latest.

Though I combed through my most recent flash fiction piece (set to debut in the holiday issue of Splickety Magazine) with unparalleled obsession, I sent it to two authors whom I trust for their review as well.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 words...

Through your research, you should get to know the people of your piece well - enough to show some of their emotions; however, if you show too many thoughts and emotions you don't have the evidence to support, your story will become fiction.

The competition, which has applied for a Guiness World Record as the most lucrative international literary prize, awards $ 20,000 to the winning flash fiction piece (of 100 words or less), as well as $ 2,000 each to the Runners Up in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.

«Queries from an Agency's POV» and «What Makes a Good Fiction Query» by Michelle Ule on Books & Such Literary Agency blog < — Parts 1 and 2 of a 3 - piece series on queries from Books & Such.

Hit Self - Destruct: Murder Charge Some really interesting, well - written game - related fiction - I once tried to do something similar with Graves & MacGuffin and an early IC - related piece of fiction, to less effect, I think.

Embracing the alienness of Final Fantasy 13, though, reveals a gorgeous piece of science fiction with sumptuous art, Masashi Hamauzu's best soundtrack ever, and a cathartic ending that gives the game a beating heart.

This catalogue, produced for the traveling exhibition of the same name, includes a text by curator José Roca and his interviews with the 12 artists, as well as a newly commissioned short - fiction piece by Bruce Sterling.

The volume includes working plans and in - progress drawings by participating artists, as well as texts by curators Stephanie Rosenthal and Mami Kataoka, psycholgist Susan Blackmore and a piece of short fiction and texts by writer and UK editor of Cabinet magazine, Brian Dillon.

McEwen's booklet also reproduces a newspaper ad memorializing real estate developer Samuel J. Lefrak («The Vision to See / The Faith to Believe / The Courage to Do»), images of sidewalks dotted with discarded chewing gum, a view of a landscape pocked with bomb craters, and a news brief about a boy sticking a piece of gum onto a $ 1.5 million Helen Frankenthaler painting during a visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts — as well as a digression into the life of Hassel, a Danish writer of pulp combat fiction who drove a German Panzer tank during the war.

There was also a good amount of art not for sale: a pop - up exhibit off - site at Pivot Art + Culture curated by Juxtapoz Magazine and Takashi Murakami, and a video exhibition featuring an archive of public access television pieces and works by contemporary artists curated by project space Public Fiction in Los Angeles and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle.

This morning he posted «The Seduction of Narrative,» a piece that helpfully aggregates some of the best commentary on the big misstep by the public radio show «This American Life» in running Mike Daisey's fiction - laced accounts of Apple's manufacturing problems in China.