Sentences with phrase «fiction novel by»
The science fiction novel by Douglas Adams used the Babel Fish idea to solve the problem of alien races communicating across the galaxy.
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«Earth Abides» came out in 1949, and it was post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Berkeley professor George Stewart — the story opens» as the protagonist Isherwood Williams returns from a trip into the California mountains and learns that civilization is crumbling after a plague has wiped out most of Earth's population»... 1949!
As part of London project space Banner Repeater's Snow Crash program, run throughout June and July and taking its title from the 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson of the same name, the exhibition reflects the overwhelming idea of Big Data through a space brimming with information.
Sadie Coles HQ Zhongguo 2185 The title for this exhibition takes its name from the utopian science fiction novel by Liu Cixin, written in 1989.
«ZHONGGUO 2185» AT SADIE COLES The title for this exhibition takes its name from the utopian science fiction novel by Liu Cixin, written in 1989.
Maria Park's solo exhibition «Composition» at Toomey Tourell is inspired by Francois Truffaut's 1966 film «Fahrenheit 451» which is based upon the science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury.
Solaris, which is based on a science - fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, is itself about memory.
Russian Game developer DaSuppaStudios games recently released video of in - game footage of their upcoming game, Metro2033 based on the world famous post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky of the same name.
Nighthawks at the Mission, the science fiction novel by Forbes West, is available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK.
LOOKING BACKWARD: 2000 - 1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1888.
Today's Book of the Day is a Christian Fiction novel by Susan Correll Foy and it's 67 % off for a limited time.
I have done my share of deep and heavy reading this summer, so it was a great pleasure to read a crime fiction novel by an author new to me.
«RUN» is a Science Fiction Novel by Michaelbrent Collings.
Harlequin MIRA and Harlequin HQN will launch their digital first programs in the first quarter of 2014 and begin by publishing a select number of titles, including I See London, a New Adult novel by debut author Chanel Cleeton (Harlequin HQN), and Wonder Girl, a women's fiction novel by Rebecca Coleman (Harlequin MIRA).
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».
It's based on a popular 1920s science fiction novel by the now forgotten Sydney Fowler Wright and can claim the title as the first disaster movie.
His appearance in the 2006 film, A Scanner Darkly, based on the dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, received favorable reviews, and The Lake House, his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, did not do well at the box office.
Plus, this emotionally grounded adaptation of the science - fiction novel by Robert O'Brien showcases complex performances by three established stars that help to compensate for some thin plotting and narrative contrivances.
Synopsis: Based on the classic science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, «Solaris» centers on a psychologist (George Clooney) sent to investigate unexplained b...
However, researchers have stepped back to look at the bigger picture through data collected from the 2001: Mars Odyssey, named in reference to the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and found a different chemical on Mars may be key.
Star Maker in Last and First Men and Star Maker: Two Science - Fiction Novels By Olaf Stapledon.
Enjoy a page turner with fiction novels by Barbara Billig.
Not exact matches
This year the list includes a science fiction novel in which the moon blows up as well as books by a mathematician and a biochemist.
Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.
Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.
His seven novels, compulsive reading for their adepts, fail all the normal tests by which one would judge the merits of a work of fiction.
By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.
Best in Fiction: Among novels that released in 2014, my favorite included All the Light We Can not See by Anthony Doerr, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and of course Lila by Marilynne Robinson (which I've only just started).
Just another fiction novel written by man that was transformed into a way of life.
These novels are, in fact, «useful fictions,» which criticize patriarchy by envisioning alternatives to its misogynist, biocidal hierarchies.
The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).
Quoting verses from a 3500 year old fiction novel written by bronze age goat herders... Here's one for you: «Luke, I am your father» Vader 5:24 - 26
Anyone who is facinated by his work, or Tolkien's should look into the writings of another one of the Inklings, Charles Williams, who wrote religious texts, poetry, and fiction, including the novels WAR IN HEAVEN, ALL HALLOW»S EVE, and MANY DIMENSIONS.
And from «Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth - Century Geology by Adelene Buckland, University of Chicago Press, p. 99:
As Thomas Woodman points out: «In recent years the rise of postmodernist fiction and of such modes as «magic realism» [as exemplified most obviously by Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez] have called into question the whole privileging of realism in the novel genre.»
Girard began in the early 1960s, with such works as Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, by explaining how triangular relations form among characters in fiction.
On holiday I usually alternate between fiction - light thrillers by Dan Brown or Robert Goddard or crime novels along with some nonfi ction.
Website blacklists, storage of all your emails by intelligence services and routine monitoring of your internet connection may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or an authoritarian regime — but the truth may be stranger than fiction for Britain in 2012.
At day's end, Pereira - Smith finally quiets down by reading a science - fiction novel or spy thriller before falling asleep.
His new novel, Solar, is about climate change, and he's bored by fiction that is only about emotions.
Cory Doctorow, a writer and intellectual property activist, has released the text of his first science - fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, under a new license that goes by the somewhat awkward name «Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike.»
Roadside Picnic By Arkady and Boris Strugatsky When the Russian Strugatsky brothers published the initial version of their dark novel Roadside Picnic in 1972, they marked the vanguard of a new approach to science fiction.
Ironically, Lewis's skepticism is inspired in part by the science fiction of Isaac Asimov, whose Foundation novels center on researchers who use advanced social science to predict the future, based on the behavior of large groups.
My science fiction novel The Rogue Retrieval — about a researcher who goes A.W.O.L. into a pristine medieval world he's been studying, and the mission to retrieve him — was published yesterday by HarperCollins.
This week, he's joined by author Andy Weir to explore the fascinating intersection of science and science fiction, delving into the biggest surprises about Mars and the Moon, and how Weir's novel, The Martian.
In my spare time, I love to garden like a granny in my little inner city tropage «tropical cottage» garden, hang out with the Blokefolk, be bossed around by the Bunny Bros, read historical fiction and zombie novels, collect retro souvenir scarves, rescue vintage English bone china from op shops, indulge my latte love and drink endless pots of tea.
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Fifty Shades Freed, the third movie based on the best - selling novels by E.L. James, opens with a showy wedding during which the demure fiction editor Anastasia Steele and the reformed sadist Christian Grey exchange mismatched vows: apparently, he has to do a whole lot of extra comforting and protecting.