Sentences with phrase «bored by fiction»
His new novel, Solar, is about climate change, and he's bored by fiction that is only about emotions.
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The Bible is a work of fiction by a bunch of old farts who were bored!
The popular revival of interest in these so - called «Gnostic» writings was led by Dan Brown, whose 2003 religious thriller The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday) mixed fact and fiction together (and lo, «faction» was born).
Wow, one more crappy long boring piece of fiction... that's quite the imagination you have Austin - did you by chance damage your brain in the crash?
Even THEN it is still a work of fiction, edited by humans for readability as well as content (how many «lost books of the Bible» were left out on the whim of the «church» who was threatened by them?????????) Since this is likely boring folks I will not start on the Church (capital C, not lowercase C)!!!!!! My 2 cents is all — for what it is worth.
Amy Pond, also known as Amelia Pond, is a fictional character portrayed by Karen Gillan in the long - running British science fiction television series Amy Alcott (born February 22, 1956) is an American professional golfer and golf course designer.
Used by shippers for years in One Direction fan fiction Harry Edward Styles was born on February 1st 1994 in Redditch, Worcestershire (England).
But since he was first introduced in 1958 by author Michael Bond, Paddington has been eclipsed by other anthropomorphic bears in fiction:
By way of its coolly detached and minimalist style, Funny Games was deliberately made as a nauseating antidote to films like Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994) and Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), which (too) eagerly depict graphic violence for the viewer's entertainment (13).
Shailene Woodley appears bemused and bored by this crushingly lacklustre science fiction franchise.
«Pulp Fiction» finally gets the Blu - ray treatment thanks to Lionsgate, and it's every bit as good as the movie deserves, with a director - approved high definition transfer that looks amazing, a 5.1 DTS - HD Lossless Audio track, and two brand new special features: a 43 - minute retrospective titled «Not the Usual Boring Getting to Know You Chit Chat» that includes interviews from several key cast members about making the movie, and a film critic roundtable («Here Are Some Facts on the Fiction») moderated by Elvis Mitchell.
For instance, in choosing links for the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award book American Born Chinese by Gene Yang, I was able to select graphic novels and books about graphic novels, for readers who are interested in the format, as well as historical fiction about the lives of Chinese immigrants in North America and contemporary novels about teens living with immigrant parents.
For traditional epic fantasy readers, we have A HERO BORN by Michael A. Stackpole, ECHOES OF A SHATTERED AGE by Ramon Terrell, THE FEATHER AND THE MOON WELL by new author Shean Pao (the first «Farland Discovery» specially chosen and mentored by New York Times bestselling fantasy author David Farland), HEART READERS by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, SHADOWS FOR SILENCE IN THE FORESTS OF HELL by Brandon Sanderson, as well as a host of imaginative stories in the Fiction River anthology UNNATURAL WORLDS.
Awarded two Hugos and five Nebulas for his fiction, one of two authors to win a Nebula in every category, Bear has been called the «Best working writer of hard science fiction» by «The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.fiction, one of two authors to win a Nebula in every category, Bear has been called the «Best working writer of hard science fiction» by «The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.fiction» by «The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.Fiction.»
Writing historical fiction can be intimidating and you might feel either overwhelmed by the amount of research that is required or constrained by the time period, in turn making your writing flat and boring.
Non-literary readers have long wondered why readers (and writers) of literary fiction are drawn toward «certain kinds» of books, whether they be difficult to read — as in Ulysses by James Joyce — stylistically unique, which can also make them difficult (think Thomas Pynchon) or just plain boring as in... well, I can't name anything, because I happen to enjoy literary fiction and I DO N'T think it's boring.
Vera Nazarian (born May 25, 1966 in Moscow, Russia) is an Armenian - Russian (by ethnicity) American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other «wonder fiction» including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books.
It is accompanied by a selection of posters advertising Alexander Korda's 1935 science - fiction movie, «Things to Come,» for which the artist designed some special effects, and a well - made three - channel video projection by Czech - born, Chicago - based artist Jan Tichy, inspired by Moholy - Nagy's abstract photograms.
Works being presented for the first time at the Hayward Gallery include a specially commissioned bell by Steven Claydon, cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which will chime 21 times a day; a new outdoor installation by Keith Wilson, a new film The Empty Plan by Anja Kirschner & David Panos; a new chapter in Charles Avery's epic island - fiction in the shape of large scale drawing Untitled (View of the Port at Onomatopoeia); a new episode from Nathaniel Mellors» Monty Python - meets - Pasolini «soap opera», Ourhouse and a large canvas bear's body by Brian Griffiths — the head of which was shown at Nottingham.
Esopus 21 includes artists» projects by Stephen Eichhorn, Penny McCarthy, Thomas Nozkowski and Leslie Wayne; an essay on the design of the 9/11 Memorial by architect Michael Arad; poems by Chantal Bizzini; a new installment of the «Modern Artifacts» series, copresented with the Museum of Modern Art Archives, and featuring documents related to the never - published second issue of Possibilities (edited by Robert Motherwell and Harold Rosenberg); photographer Dennis Stock's images of the 1954 world premiere of Judy Garland's A Star Is Born; an interview with playwright / filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan relating to his childhood fascination with science fiction; pages from the late Austrian artist Otto Meuhl's sketchbook featuring drawings based on Cézanne paintings; and several perspectives on the African art collective Invisible Borders: an essay by Emmanuel Iduma accompanied by a photographic portfolio; and a downloadable audio compilation of music and sounds curated by Emeka Okereke that relates to the collective's 2012 road trip.
Fictions, an exhibition, showing about 30 large - scale works by this Chilean - born artist in a focused retrospective, on view January, 19 until June, 2, 2013.
To say that the science beyond «global cooling» / «new ice age» in the 1970's was anywhere near as robust or accepted by scientists in the field (as opposed to bored journalists and second tier science fiction authors) is simply untrue.
«The fact that the earth's atmosphere can not safely absorb the amount of carbon we are pumping into it is a symptom of a much larger crisis, one born of the central fiction on which our economic model is based: that nature is limitless, that we will always be able to find more of what we need, and that if something runs out it can be seamlessly replaced by another resource that we can endlessly extract.»