Sentences with phrase «build its science fiction»

Silent Running is no jerry - built science fiction film, but it's a little too simple - minded to be consistently entertaining.

As a freelance editor, he helped Harlequin's digital - first imprint Carina Press build its science fiction and fantasy line, and he has worked on titles for the Nelson Literary Agency Digital Liaison Platform and bestselling indie authors.

Reedsy professional Michael Rowley has collaborated with numerous authors on building science fiction and fantasy worlds during his time as Editorial Director of Del Rey UK.

For example, have you read these other works by Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and other great building science fiction writers?

Not exact matches

It may sound like something out of science fiction, but a New York — based biomaterials company hopes to create a new category of environmentally friendly building materials by growing them from scratch.

The group, known as Building 8, currently has four simultaneous projects underway, spanning everything from cameras and augmented reality to science fiction - like brain scanning technology, Business Insider has learned.

In a continuation of the theme set by Endeavor's name, the building is bursting with rooms nodding to science fiction: Altair IV, Skaro, Skynet, Vogsphere, Hoth, Mordor.

It is best known for building robots that look as if they belong in science - fiction movies and are often co-developed or funded by the U.S. military.

Since then, a research company called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT)-- unaffiliated with Musk or any of his other companies and ventures — is right on track to making science - fiction legit science by building an actual test track for the technology in California.

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

The idea that our universe — everything we can observe, including the laws of physics that shape it — is just one among a vast ensemble may seem the stuff of science fiction, but cosmologists build multiverse models using a theory called inflation.

The standard science fiction version of what happens after we take control of our evolution usually runs along eugenic lines, leading toward efforts to build a master race.

Many science - fiction writers have proposed life - forms that use alternate elemental building blocks, often silicon instead of carbon, but this marks the first known case in a real organism.

After getting my hands on a copy of the Alpha build, I can say without a doubt that they've been hard at work in creating a unique action game that's bound to please a lot of science fiction and action fans!

An emotionally heavy and truly moving film, Dawn is an absolute marvel of modern science fiction, building upon the strong and unmovable foundations Rise of the Planet of the Apes had left earlier.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

35 years after the original Blade Runner changed the landscape of big screen science fiction, Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dared build on the dystopian portrait of the ecologically devastated urban imaged on screen by director Ridley Scott and his team of designers and artists.

Although competently made, I would hedge my recommendations strictly to those who enjoy science fiction and «thinking person» thrillers, as the build - up is long and without much action.

Scott spends the first two acts attempting to build the foundations of a pokey, urgent science - fiction drama, and then pulls an aggressive U-turn, opting for all - out carnage.

Across several releases, including 2010's The ArchAndroid and 2013's The Electric Lady, Monáe has maintained an air of mystery, crafting intricate worlds built around science fiction.

This is a polished, epic depiction of an alien landscape, up there with Avatar in terms of science fiction world - building.

In the case of the new science - fiction thriller The Thing, that principle applies heavily to the Antarctic setting, where inclement weather cuts off a tiny science station from potential rescuers, darkness and bitter cold make even closely huddled buildings seem forbiddingly far apart, and circumstances set everyone in the area against each other.

Denis Villeneuve proved with Blade Runner 2049 that he's indeed one of the best directors working in science fiction (Arrival wasn't a fluke) and that he can build upon an existing world.

Paradox Interactive was created to build fantasy, science fiction and alternative history brands in cross-media platforms.

The science fiction setting is used to full effect with bright adverts, glass coated cityscapes and impossible roads that flip and twist through densely packed buildings.

We chat to its director, Caradog W. James, about casting Toby Stephens and Caity Lotz, making hard science fiction on a budget, and building killer robots.

Those interactions are the building blocks of an Alex Garland science fiction film.

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Blade Runner 2049 also builds on the excellent foundations of the original by incorporating some of the most mesmerizing themes of recent science fiction cinema / television.

In this mediocre found - footage science - fiction feature, a group of teenagers build a time machine.

That the most exciting bits of Black Panther have to do with world - building — the futuristic costuming, the urban design, the smooth assimilation of the technological into the everyday — point to another problem with the CGI - driven mass destruction template of science fiction: it doesn't account for the ways in which the cultural place of technology — and the resultant shape of our technophobia — has evolved over time.

But this prequel still is better than most science - fiction out there and builds momentum rather than losing it.

The students incorporated their science - fiction unit in English with a hands - on creative building process and a foray into digital filmmaking.

The 72 titles, including topics in science, math, social studies, and fiction, build knowledge and academic vocabulary and introduce children to literary genres.

Underneath that science - fiction skin is a supercar built around a carbon - fiber passenger cell.

She is actively building her client list, and is interested in adult and teen horror, mystery novels, thriller novels, historical fiction, science fiction novels, fantasy novels, and general fiction (both YA and adult).

Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense and erotica.

She is actively building her client list, and is interested in adult and teen horror, mystery novels, thrillers, historical fiction, science fiction novels, fantasy novels, and general fiction (both YA and adult).

Early on, when science fiction was a genre only read by science geeks and kids who built their own telescopes, readers felt that they were the aliens in the larger real world.

Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, and young adult fiction.

Targeted Age Group:: Adult and Young Adult Category: Science Fiction Print book price range: $ 13.75 - $ 16.95 eBook price range: $ 4.99 About The Universe Builders: God got a C - in Universe Building 101.

The Ursaab, built in two prototype models, was created as a concept car by aeronautical engineers with a unique, aerodynamic design that would have been at home on the pages of science fiction magazines.

Born in 1948, he spent much of his early career writing short stories, and he received multiple awards, building a loyal following with science - fiction and fantasy fans.

How Scott managed to use targeted ads to build up his Facebook followers, which started off with boosting a post on his author page of a picture of his cat, Merlin (and targeting science fiction readers who loved cats)

World building in science fiction can be vague especially for quick reads, but Girl in the Box had the perfect amount of detail.

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Over the course of six adventures, and an entire century of local history, Touchstone Season 1 builds into a moving coming - of - age saga that has won plaudits from young and old readers alike with its intelligent blend of time travel adventure, science fiction, historical romance and fantasy.

Don is aggressive in looking to build a list of authors with «strong voices» across a wide variety of areas: literary and commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, travel, science, and health.

Science fiction and fantasy authors who build new worlds to escape this one.