Sentences with phrase «discussions on the science fiction»

This page will collate all the resources from the blog and elsewhere for genre - specific discussions on the science fiction and fantasy fiction genres.

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On this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Annihilation, a science - fiction, mystery, quasi-horror film about an alien anomaly that forms its own unusual ecosystem on Earth, drastically changing all life within iOn this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Annihilation, a science - fiction, mystery, quasi-horror film about an alien anomaly that forms its own unusual ecosystem on Earth, drastically changing all life within ion Earth, drastically changing all life within it.

Very loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name, indie punk Doug Liman (director of Swingers) has constructed a parable of self - discovery that can as easily be read as a subversion of the conventions of the thriller genre, a discussion of the ways in which the audience participates in the process of genre fiction, or as a science - fiction piece in which strangely robotic über menschen run amuck in a technocratic world metropolis.

Among the pieces featured: China Mieville bringing radical sf into the mainstream, many high profile sf writers talk about their favorite sf novels, Neil Gaiman on Gene Wolfe, and spurring the most discussion: Iain M. Banks on «science fiction is no place

Their group discussions centered on pop culture implications from elements such as mass advertising, movies, product design, comic strips, science fiction and technology.

The «hiatus» clearly shows up, but discussions about cooling lasting to 2030 etc. are clearly more fiction than science, especially with the past 6 months being the warmest on record.

I frequently encountered Harry Stubbs («Hal Clement») at East Coast science fiction conventions during the last decades of the 20th Century, when he commonly led panel discussions and seminars on the techniques of «world - building,» the process of speculatively devising ``... environments very different from our own.