Sentences with phrase «fantasy than science fiction»

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Teleportation, the science - fiction fantasy of moving objects instantaneously through space from one location to another, has become reality — an achievement both more subtle and spectacular than many early news reports indicated.

A Wrinkle in Time hits that unfortunate un-sweet spot common to big - budget science - fiction / fantasy, where the spectacle feels more summarized than experienced.

Finally becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science - fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the»90s.

It lacks the coherent fantasy of truly enveloping science fiction, preferring to concentrate on flashy, isolated stunts that say more about expense than expertise.

This is more science fiction than comic fantasy.

It's no wonder, then, that science fiction and fantasy films often felt more resonant and important than so - called «realistic» fiction.

Final Fantasy IX is one of my all - time favourite games, so grabbing the recent port for the PS4 was a no brainer; easily the most underrated entry in the series, FFIX suffered somewhat due to the decision to return to a more heavily fantasy oriented setting rather than the science fiction inspired ones present in the two previous — and most successful — instalments.

Just a little over a decade ago, online learning for many educators fell into the realm of science fiction, or worse, snake oil.Visions of students accessing an array of courses on their computers, interacting with teachers over the Internet, and participating in virtual «field trips» seemed more fantasy than reality.

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.

Genre fiction books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be sold for less — less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult books (younger audience, smaller wallets).

It was first edited by the late Judith Merril in 1985, and has published more than 529 original Canadian speculative fiction (Science fiction, fantasy and horror) stories and poems by 315 Canadian authors, editors, translators and special guests.

Laurie's clients include the New York Times and USA Today bestselling YA author Julie Kagawa, bestselling fantasy and science fiction author Michael J. Sullivan, award - winning romance author Julianne Donaldson, award - winning steampunk and fantasy authors Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris, and the award - winning Linda Wisdom, who has had more than 100 romance novels published in her career.

In some genres (especially high - volume «pulp» genres like romance, science fiction, fantasy, and, to a lesser extent, mysteries), readers often expect anything shorter than a full - length book (fifty thousand or more words) to be priced $ 0.99, while full length pieces are generally priced $ 2.99 — $ 4.99.

We represent more than 50 authors who write romance, women's fiction, science fiction / fantasy, thrillers, young adult and middle grade fiction as well as select nonfiction titles.

For example, if you write fantasy or science fiction, a convention will probably get you more attention than a craft fair.

He is the author of more than thirty books of science fiction and fantasy, including Blood Music, The Forge of God, Darwin's Radio, and Quantico.

According to his post on the genre bestsellers, romance, science fiction, and fantasy titles in the top spots were doing as well as or better than traditionally published titles, with typically half of the top titles having been self - published.

This is another genre specific newsletter that caters a lot more toward science fiction and fantasy than toward contemporary or literary fiction.

For example, the e-book market share of the science fiction and fantasy sector globally for the 10 weeks since June was 10 %, more than treble the genre & rsquo; s market share of print book sales.

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.

Of these ebooks, most independently published ones have a larger market share than traditionally published ones when broken down into genres: Self - published romance, mystery, horror, science fiction and fantasy all sell better from indie authors or Kindle imprints than they do from traditional publishers.»

Another year's worth backs up last year's statement that youth fantasy literature is far richer than is youth science fiction.

If you do, and if you enjoy science fiction and fantasy that has a great story and entertains (and yes, it can still have a message but that isn't a requirement), I have a feeling your personal slate will resemble SP3 more closely than it will the SJW slate.

This rings truer for literary fiction than certain branches of fantasy and science fiction, where authors often assume a future or alternative universe should include diversity, whether alien or human.

According to Romance Writers of America, romance sells more books than mystery, science fiction / fantasy, and religious / inspirational genres.

For example, the e-book market share of the science fiction and fantasy sector globally for the 10 weeks since June was 10 %, more than treble the genre's market share of print book sales.

For the Hit Man Series, I ranked higher in mystery than I did in thrillers, though I ranked consistently higher in action / adventure and science fiction and fantasy.

According to the Romance Writers of America ®, the romance fiction industry is worth $ 1.08 billion dollars a year, * which makes it about a third larger than the inspirational book industry, and about the size of the mystery novel genre and science fiction / fantasy genre markets combined.

Buyers of cook books likely spend their time in different ways and places than those of science fiction fantasy novels.

In fact, what began as a program only for writers of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and thrillers in April 2011, this week is blowing open its frontiers to authors in more than 60 categories.

I know that I know make more in a year on my science fiction and fantasy than I would in a traditional advance for a new author (which I would be seen as by most publishers) from most traditional publishers.

Romance authors earned 170 % more than their peers, while authors in other genres fared much worse: science - fiction writers earned 38 % of the $ 10,000 average, fantasy writers 32 %, and literary fiction authors just 20 % of the $ 10,000 average.

Final Fantasy IX is one of my all - time favourite games, so grabbing the recent port for the PS4 was a no brainer; easily the most underrated entry in the series, FFIX suffered somewhat due to the decision to return to a more heavily fantasy oriented setting rather than the science fiction inspired ones present in the two previous — and most successful — instalments.

Rather than existing in some high fantasy world with science fiction elements to a greater or lesser degree, we play in a world that, save for monsters and a few other elements, is very like the real one.

If there are multiverses that are in fact coupled — quantum bundles of universes, that sort of thing (which is the basis of my story, it being a bit boring to write about a world where the Lord of the Rings Universe really exists as a parallel Universe, only you can't get there from here or ever prove it — then perhaps we might one day be able to demonstrate this, but in the meantime the question is more science fiction or fantasy than something to believe or disbelieve in very strongly, with the usual rational default: Lack of belief pending positive evidence!