Sentences with phrase «faced by fiction»

For instance, Dominique Raccah of Sourcebooks was nothing if not practical and alive to the realities faced by fiction publishers.

Not exact matches

In a book replete with evaluations and magisterial judgments tossed in as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twice.

• «War for the Planet of the Apes,» directed by Matt Reeves, which expands the science - fiction franchise to an emotionally resonant war drama, as the reclusive ape leader Caesar (Andy Serkis) faces off against an enigmatic human colonel (Woody Harrelson).

by Walter Chaw A deep cut for Star Wars fanatics, Gareth Edwards's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also happens to be the single most topical fiction of 2016, talking as it does — in bold, melodramatic strokes befitting a space opera — about the importance of rebellion in the face of fascism.

There's a considerable amount of absurdity to the foundation of the plan by Tony Mendez (Affleck, quite strong in stone - faced performance, making his occasional outward displays of emotion even more valuable): Fake a medium - to - low budget science - fiction movie that would necessitate shooting in Tehran.

In this course, Smarter Artist co-founder Sean Platt will show you the step - by - step process their 3 - person bestselling author team uses to plan and outline over 2 million words per year of high - quality, reader - loved fiction without hassle, delays, or the frustration most writers face.

A comment in response to my column in The Bookseller today caught my eye: There is another strand to the issues facing Irish publishing, though, in that aside from fiction, Ireland, and I am troubled by saying this but believe...

Meantime, Lucy's marriage to childhood pal Zach, a development unusual in YA fiction but convincing in context, underlies the catapulting suspense with a notion that will be deeply gratifying to many teens: no destiny is unalterable, especially not when faced with tender love magic, «weird and hilarious and sweeter than [Lucy] ever dreamed,» worked by truly mated souls.

She's not actually family, and I've never met her face - to - face, but she's married to a guy who's been one of my dearest friends since I was 20, and we're also connected by virtue of each of us having «studied with» one of my favorite writers, Francine Prose: Elizabeth at the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop and me in Monroe Engel «s life - changing English Mb undergraduate fiction workshop back around the time that I met Ned French.

At least that was the predicament faced by Catriona Troth, the eighth indie author in my literary fiction interview series, when she sought to place her novel, Ghost Town, for sale.

A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years

The hand - drawn images of Johnson reflect a formative interest in 1980's science fiction, horror movies, video games and comic books, creating environments of ancient yet futuristic alien civilization populated by mystic characters like bat - faced demigods, gargoyles, worms and genderless pink humanoids that are contorted into ritualistic positions that waver between torture, rapture and worship.

In «Facing Enemies, Melting Opposites» the experience of fiction, understood as a representation operated by imagination and fantasy, seems to... Read more»

In «Facing Enemies, Melting Opposites» the experience of fiction, understood as a representation operated by imagination and fantasy, seems to have much in common with the philosophical current to which it gives its name, namely that of fictionalism.

In both the sculptures from the mid-1990s, and the new drawings created for the exhibition Players, Huma Bhabha reinvents the human head, deconstructing and reconstructing an archetype in which she gathers and transforms various art - historical typologies: from the African, Oceanic and carnival masks to those worn by the actors / dancers in the Indian theatre, from the grotesque faces of Expressionist painting to the demonic, hybrid features we may find in the characters of science - fiction movies or the Marvel comic books.

It is a science fiction like scenario to be faced presumably by generations ahead but hopefully we will invest enough in knowledge by then to have a really good factual and scientific basis to understand how change will affect everything.

They avoid the dilemma faced by the science fiction computers over whether to kill off all those virtual people in the simulation.