Sentences with phrase «classic science fiction»

The list of over 350 free classic science fiction novels and stories took quite a bit of research to put together.

In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».

Yes, it is very reminiscent of many classic science fiction films, from Alien to The Thing, even to many episodes of the classic «Star Trek».

19 Luckhurst, Roger provides a good overview of the scientific romance and its differences from classic science fiction in Science Fiction (Cambridge, England: Polity, 2005), 30 — 49.

Sid Meier's Starships is a good and replayable turn based strategy experience that will certainly appeal to lovers of classic science fiction franchises and to those who appreciate the way the leader of Firaxis managed to make player choices relevant.

A 50th - anniversary 70 mm rerelease of Stanley Kubrick's classic science fiction epic, overseen by Christopher Nolan.

Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion have mined their collective Firefly experience to launch Con Man, a webseries focusing on the misadventures of Wray Nerely (Tudyk) who was once on a short - lived cult classic science fiction show called Spectrum.

Yet the characters» lives are utterly defined and guided by science fiction elements (of the sort that could soon be science reality), and the kind of ethical questions implicitly explored are those of classic science fiction going back to Asimov and Wells, here told with a poignant humanism and thoughtfulness rarely found on the screen today.

The game combines the intense action of a third - person shooter, with the persistence and scale of a massive online game, while its television counterpart exudes the sweeping scope and heroic characters of classic science fiction dramas.

Independent filmmaker John Alan Simon clearly loves the works of now - classic science fiction author Philip K. Dick (often referred to by fans with his initials, PKD).

The music evokes classic science fiction movie soundtracks and stands out as quirky and fun.

Simmons excels at classic science fiction, horror, fantasy, mystery and historical fiction, and Drood could be rightly categorized as a detective story, a bloody horror novel and historical fiction.

As with most classic science fiction there is a small mishap at the lab and the accelerator malfunctions leading to Lester being transported in to Another World.

Players, along with the main characters, Traveller and Julie, will visit a world where classic science fiction meets Victorian Art, in the course of the investigation of the strange disappearance of a famed scientist 300 years before.

It used to be this idea of «cyberspace» and «we're going to hook up to the «net and fly», all these movies from the 90s where you're connected to the grid and you're in this black vast space with all these cubes floating around, which is a very classic science fiction ideology or fantasy.

Ready Player One finds Steven Spielberg retelling Ernest Cline's classic science fiction novel detailing a world set in 2045.

The 2011 prequel to John Carpenter's classic Science Fiction film THE THING is surprisingly well - made, and serves as a valid companion piece to the original film by filling in the events that preceded it.

Steven Williams Resident Artist Gallery September 3 - 25, 2016 Inspired by everything from classic science fiction to found objects, Williams uses a process of intuition, accident, and chance.

A new exhibition and season of events at the Barbican Centre in London offers a fun, frantic sprint through the scenery of classic science fiction.

Radio 4 is set to broadcast an adaptation of John Wyndham's classic science fiction novel The Kraken Wakes, in which Sturgeon will play herself.

Synopsis: Based on the classic science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, «Solaris» centers on a psychologist (George Clooney) sent to investigate unexplained b...

Netflix has released the first official teaser of its upcoming reboot of the classic science fiction TV series Lost in Space, which is slated to debut on April 13.

The latest installment in the series based on the classic science fiction film «Planet of the Apes,» War for the Planet of the Apes, is available on DVD and Blu - ray.

It's based on a classic science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, and has been made once before in a much different fashion by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972, which many people have cited as a major influence.

It's a classic science fiction concept that hasn't really been explored by games before.

The Happening posits a classic science fiction «what if» scenario, and is in fact even more Hitchcockian than Signs.

Subsequent to Village of the Damned (1995), an uninspired remake of the 1960 classic science fiction film, Carpenter directed three films that virtually deconstruct, reinvent and cross-fertilize the western genre.

On This Week's Show: Like the return of the classic science fiction film Tron to theaters, Neil makes a triumphant return to the Magical Studio in the Sky.

1984 is based on the classic science fiction novel by George Orwell, which offered a bleak vision of a future dystopia where one's thoughts and actions were controlled by a totalitarian government ruled by an entity known simply as «Big Brother».

How dare they remake a classic science fiction film?

Time travel is a common trope of classic science fiction.

Content — A classic science fiction novel, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, is now available on the Kindle.

This is how he discovered Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and the other masters of classic science fiction.

With a classic science fiction B - movie motif, an impulse buy - friendly 80 Microsoft Point price, and a lighthearted presentation that includes the warning that the product contain «NO ZOMBIES,» this was an unmissable puzzle game purchase for me.

The «SotSverse» is the brain - child of science fiction author Arinn Dembo, who joined Kerberos Productions in 2004 to serve as Lead Writer during the development of the classic science fiction 4X title Sword of the Stars.