Sentences with phrase «fiction against science»
From The Guardian, a recent study comparing literary fiction against science fiction returned rather «stupefying» results.
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These armies of tiny biological robot doctors are not science fiction: March has already developed probiotics that protect mice against cholera.
In an allegory similar to the premise of Walter Miller's Catholic science - fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, MacIntyre imagines a series of environmental disasters turning the public violently against the natural sciences:
John W. Campbell, the editor of Analog (formerly Astounding) Science Fiction, once wrote an editorial remarkable for the contrarian points he brought up (among other things, he came out against motherhood and for the man - eating shark).
Perhaps the best argument against a super-intelligent agent creating the universe is that moderately - intelligent science fiction writers often dream up universes that are way cooler and often even «work» better than the reality we all experience.
Until recently, that sort of fiddling with human DNA was only science fiction and allegory, a warning against a new kind of eugenics that could pit the genetic haves and have - nots against each other.
District 9 is an incredibly effective parable about human rights abuses against refugees, while also functioning as a thrilling science - fiction action film.
A retro epic that mixes witty science fiction with hip - hop savoir - faire — all set against a Western background.
• «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).
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.
Try as they might, neither Jared Leto's messianic blind entrepreneur Niander Wallace, nor Sylvia Hoeks's replicant assistant Luv are quite fit to walk in Roy Batty's shoes, though perhaps that's unfair: We're measuring them against one of the most interesting villains in science fiction.
That's no knock against Scott's 1979 classic, which remains an excellent science fiction film and an excellent horror film — it's just that I prefer James Cameron's follow - up, an excellent science fiction, horror, action and war film.
Based on a popular graphic novel by Marasume Shirow and directed by Rupert Sanders («Snow White and the Huntsman»), Ghost in the Shell is a visually stunning experience with a fine core performance by Scarlett Johansson («Captain America: Civil War»), but it borrows so much of other, mostly better science fiction films and TV series, that charges of grand larceny should be levied against writers William Wheeler («Queen of Katwe»), Ehren Kruger («Transformers: Age of Extinction») and Jamie Moss («Street Kings»).
Think of it as a science - fiction slasher flick or a deep - space old - dark - house thriller with a crew of likeably blue - collar mopes facing off against a shape - changing menace that's part axe murderer, part wild grizzly, and part serial rapist.
An ultra-violent science - fiction war game, Gears is about humanity's endless struggle against the Locust hordes... And also guns with chainsaw bayonets.
His fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper / thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work (currently 99 cents on Amazon).
Just recently they froze the charity fund for science fiction writer Jay Lake (he was receiving donations for his fight against cancer).
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The groups» fight against recognizing diversity in both science fiction titles and science fiction authors has led to a serious backlash against this year's Hugo Awards, with two authors withdrawing their works from nomination (refusing the honor, essentially), one fan writer nominee withdrawing from the awards, and one presenter stepping down from the awards event itself.
· Prolific science fiction and fantasy writer Dave Duncan's «Against the Light» tells the story of a young, magical missionary's arrest for heresy and treason in the land of Albi.
In this third volume, the full and complete science fiction novel Against Time, A Seeders Universe novel, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.
His fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper / thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work.
«I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.
Meanwhile, others are joining IPG in its fight against Amazon's business practices including The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America who issued this statement; «SFWA is redirecting Amazon.com links from the organization's website to other booksellers because we would prefer to send traffic to stores where the books can actually be purchased.»
Today's guest post is by Veronica Sicoe who is science fiction author that shares her story of struggling against indifference.
First announced in 2007, Dead Space is a third - person shooter that merges spacefaring science - fiction and survival / horror to create a game in which the player (in control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke) battles against reanimated human corpses aboard an interstellar space ship.
It's very cold in Space, Admiral: While it's not an original tale, the idea of one man fighting in the depths of space against an unknown alien presence resounds well with science fiction fans.
The days of being a geek constantly battling against a society that does nothing but mock comics, science fiction, anime and videogames is, for the most part, over.
That certainly has not changed at all this time around with the old B - movie feel still in tact, as you face off against giant insect thats look like they crawled right off of the big screen from a 1950s science fiction movie.
Soldiers and huge mechs battle with and against each other in vast, science - fiction - themed maps, and all the while there's AI gnawing at your ankle.
It's a classic team arena shooter from Blizzard that sets two six - person teams of wildly different characters against each other in a bright and cartoonish science fiction universe.
On the other two walls of the main gallery, which are painted a customary white, there is an oil painting of blue balls on a white field, «Bloobs» (2014) by Mathew Cerletty; a loopy, oddly affecting drawing, «Untitled (shit)» (2011) by David Shrigley, of concentric circles emanating from the word «shit»; Vern Blosum's «Off The Hook» (2015), a larger - than - life - size graphite drawing of a vintage payphone with its receiver dangling, appropriately, off the hook; and Emily Mae Smith's «The Studio (Science Fiction)» (2015), which depicts the split halves of an eggshell hovering above a flying saucer / fried egg, the edge of its white perimeter forming the words «THE STUDIO» against the starry blackness of outer space.
Through a convergence of interest in anthropology, science fiction, black female subjectivity and women's work, her art explores the humor and fantasy involved in self - making within diasporic societies, which have an ability to live with cultural ambiguities and use them to build psychological and even metaphysical defenses against cultural invasions.
Thirteen artists examine the quality of «humanness» against the background of science fiction and «singularity.»
She has curated solo presentations of work by Marie Bovo, Zoe Crosher, Phil Chang, Gordon Matta - Clark, and Penelope Umbrico, among others, and curated and co-curated the group exhibitions Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas (2017 - 18), Reproduction, Reproduction (2015 - 16), and Trouble with the Index (2014) at the CMP, and Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity (2012), and First 50 (2012) at MCA Chicago.
I make this admission (probably an admission against interest) freely and with some pleasure, because «science fiction» — whatever that term might mean — was my introduction to books, libraries and the ecstasy of reading and reading and reading.