Sentences with phrase «fiction novel from»

That is amazing for a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel from an unknown author.

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It is not giving anything away to say that things do not end well for Ada in this skillful historical fiction novel from London native Chamberlain.

Phoenix Publishing offers one free eBook each month in a variety of eBook formats, including the Kindle; I've picked up a couple of really good science fiction novels from them for free that they simultaneously have for sale in the Amazon Kindle store for prices up to $ 9.99.

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Business Insider previously reported that Amazon's CEO learns more from fiction than non-fiction, and this novel about a butler in post-war England is one of his favorites.

(The name Soylent itself comes from the dark science - fiction novel Make Room!

Reading a bunch of books and articles, anything from fiction novels to autobiographies to classic literature, has really helped to fuel my creative reservoir.

I switched from academic papers to climate fiction a few years ago, seeking to inform, and in one story envisioned trouble at the BC / AB border... «Blown Bridge Valley», an excerpt from a climate reality novel series... a free e-book at the link here https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/497190

While her book at times threatens to become a kind of Answer Key to Waugh's novels, which themselves, in her hands, almost resemble mere romans clef, she does convincingly show that Waugh always drew from his own life in his fiction.

Lots of novel readers — from the highest brow to the lowest — nod politely when the science - fiction writer Gene Wolfe is mentioned.

For although Austen can be legitimately claimed as the formal forerunner of the vulgar romance fiction now clogging whole sections of the world's bookstores, her own novels far transcend the very genre she is supposed to have inaugurated ¯ and precisely because of the moral vision that came from her upbringing and which has now, it would seem, all but disappeared in the wake of Sitcom World.

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

The quest is distinguished from mere adventure, a trait which marks a great deal of nonfantasy fiction (going back, perhaps, to the picaresque novel).

And from «Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth - Century Geology by Adelene Buckland, University of Chicago Press, p. 99:

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.

Finally, in our Total Life section, we have Philip Cowley and Matthew Bailey delving into political fiction ranging from 19th century novels to episodes of Steptoe and Son, revealing that complaints of modern MPs are often really just insults.

You might think that with all his practice crafting works of fiction, from his education history to DWP statistics, that Iain Duncan Smith could deliver an interesting creative novel.

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.

Even more alarming, we also pick up incorrect information from pure fiction, such as novels.

That may seem like an explanation from a science fiction novel (and it does in fact resemble the principle of invisibility set out in H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man), but it emerges naturally in the higher - dimensional mathematics of string theory.

Discovery of a long - lost novel reveals that, from the start, the father of science fiction was gravely concerned with the dangers of technology

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.

In this low budget fantasy adventure from Britain, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs» 1918 science fiction novel, a German submarine holding American prisoners of war during World War I, veers off course.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

Endo's 1966 novel «Silence,» a stern, exquisite piece of historical fiction about Portuguese Jesuit priests persecuted for their beliefs in 17th century Japan, walks a thin line separating West from East, religious fervor from spiritual skepticism.

German - born Forster has directed a string of films including The Kite Runner, adapted from the best - selling novel, and the comedy Stranger Than Fiction.

Which is to say that while Annihilation, drawn from the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, formally belongs, much like Garland's Ex Machina, to the science fiction genre, it unfolds in a realm where conventional science has ceased to operate, and where the characters» journey, although peppered with horror tropes cribbed from Lake Placid, Prophecy and The Thing, is ultimately an internal one.

June's pick: From journalist - turned - fiction writer Alex Berenson, The Night Ranger (A John Wells Novel) about his hero John Wells, who in this latest installment must rescue kidnapped do - gooders in East Africa.

From the Studio: Rooted in the classic graphic novel series, Valerian and Laureline - visionary writer / director Luc Besson advances this iconic source material into a contemporary, unique and epic science fiction saga.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.

Adapted from the first novel written by Michael Crichton under his real name, The Andromeda Strain combined the technology of science fiction with 1970s paranoia into a compelling, but occasionally slow - paced film directed by Robert Wise.

How I Live Now is an adaptation of the award - winning novel from 2004 by Meg Rosoff, which took home the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (awarded from the British newspaper, «The Guardian») and the Michael L. Printz Award (from the American Library Association) for young - adult literature.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

This is the lasting appeal of Jack Finney's novel, «The Body Snatchers» and why its concept has inspired countless science fiction movies throughout the years - from three versions of the novel itself (in 1956, 1978 and 1994 as Body Snatchers by director Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant fame) to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (finally in 1994) and the 1980s remake of The Thing - all of them dealing with people being surreptitiously taken over by alien presences.

Annihilation, adapted from Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning novel by the director of the science - fiction masterpiece Ex Machina, Alex Garland, includes some of the most chilling scenes recently committed to film.

The latter is documentarian Amy Berg's first fiction feature, and she works from a Nicole Holofcener script (adapted from Laura Lippman's novel).

This year we visited with authors of fiction and nonfiction, picture books and novels, from places near and far.

That quote from a William Gibson science fiction novel is used widely in Silicon Valley to describe the technology landscape, but it applies to segregation as well.

request from an «award winning fiction author / top client» I'd never heard of (although I was obviously daft enough to accept a previous request to connect) whose 76 - page novel was compiled by a self - publishing services entity called Infinity Publishing.

This fabulous contest closes on Feb. 2, so crime fiction writers from anywhere in the world who haven't had a novel published still have a few weeks to submit the first 3,000 words of their manuscripts.

Last year she was awarded Editor of the Year from the American Christian Fiction Writers and won B&H's first Christy award for Ginny Yttrup's debut novel Words.

If you write fiction, create feature articles based on research from your novels.

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She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).

Lloyd's first novel (1st edition), My Splendid Concubine, was self - published December 2007 and earned honorable mentions in general fiction from the 2008 London Book Festival, the 2009 Hollywood Book Festival and the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival.

She also represents a range of women's fiction, from literary to upmarket commercial, to romance, as well as crime fiction (mysteries, thrillers), and the occasional literary or commercial novel not aimed at a female market.

Whether you're closing in on a final draft or about to launch your novel, you will need clarity about what makes your novel stand out from other fiction on the market.

There is no shortage of apps from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and hundreds of others that allow you to read short fiction, novels and even classics like Leo Tolstoy's War and... [Read more...]

His first collection, Last Days of the Dog - Men, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; his first novel, Heaven of Mercury, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his As in the Prime of Their Lives was a finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Their bookstore has a ton of content, from short - fiction to bestselling novels.