Sentences with phrase «fiction novel in»

The first book in the series, The Glasswrights» Apprentice, won the Barnes & Noble Maiden Voyage Award for best first speculative fiction novel in 2000.

This never put me off though and I self published my first historical fiction novel in December 2013.

So you've written the greatest science fiction novel in the universe.

On top of all this, I have the first draft of a science fiction novel in progress that I am determined to finish this year.

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.

The days of shuffling that 10 - pound textbook to class or those countless fiction novels in your backpack are slowly but steadily coming to a close.

She wrote the Award winning «Ajwan», one of a handful of science fictions novels in the Arab world.

Not exact matches

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.

Now translated into English, Liu Cixin's The Three - Body Problem won the 2015 Hugo Award for best science - fiction novel and is in the process of being made into a Hollywood movie.

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.

Harrison's first novel, «Wolf: A Fake Memoir,» came out in 1971 and he followed two years later with a work of fiction about the ecology, «A Good Day to Die.»

Voice interfaces won't replace screens (people like to use their eyes and fingers), but we will be interacting with computers in ways predicted in science - fiction novels, he says.

(BTW, I too write fiction, and my first novel in a trilogy is being published this Jan..

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

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:

But his less - known work, a trilogy of science fiction novels, contains some of his most profound, thrilling and decidedly adult notions of the universe we live in, the reality - shifting nature of grace and the Creator who rules over it all.

IN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay on detective fiction, «The Guilty Vicarage,» W.H. Auden argued that the appeal of crime novels lies in their «dialectic of innocence and guilt.&raquIN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay on detective fiction, «The Guilty Vicarage,» W.H. Auden argued that the appeal of crime novels lies in their «dialectic of innocence and guilt.&raquin their «dialectic of innocence and guilt.»

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

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.

Cf. the comment of Ransom, Lewis's protagonist in his science - fiction novel, Out of the Silent Planet (New York: Macmillan, 1965), p. 32:» «Space» [was] a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they - swam....

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.

For example, in his science - fiction novel, Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis wrote of Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philologist who is kidnapped and taken to another planet.

In romance occurs a quest for the most desirable object — the distant planet in science fiction, the beloved in gothic novels, the lawful community in westernIn romance occurs a quest for the most desirable object — the distant planet in science fiction, the beloved in gothic novels, the lawful community in westernin science fiction, the beloved in gothic novels, the lawful community in westernin gothic novels, the lawful community in westernin westerns.

It was nearly one year ago - in November 2009 - that Deepak Chopra first told me about his upcoming historical fiction novel about the Prophet Muhammad.

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).

I entreat all of you to read A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes novel — fiction, of course, but interesting that a very reputable and fact - driven author would choose to delve into the life of the antagonist as being helplessly tied up in an early Mormonist agenda...

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Jon Breen makes the bold claim that Christian crime fiction has come of age in the novels of J. Mark Bertrand.

These novels are, in fact, «useful fictions,» which criticize patriarchy by envisioning alternatives to its misogynist, biocidal hierarchies.

Star Maker in Last and First Men and Star Maker: Two Science - Fiction Novels By Olaf Stapledon.

In fact, all of Powers's ecclesiastical fiction, the novels in particular, can be seen as an exploration of this compromisIn fact, all of Powers's ecclesiastical fiction, the novels in particular, can be seen as an exploration of this compromisin particular, can be seen as an exploration of this compromise.

Such character - centered writing is a mark of good fiction in any genre, but in detective novels, where the author may feel enslaved to solution - hungry readers, it's especially rare.

We even had Christian novels that coated the gospel in the candy of fiction.

Moreover, the novel presents one of the most searching and provocative accounts of modern individualism to be found in fiction.

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.

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).

Nothing is more damaging to fiction, she wrote, than writers who try to impose their beliefs on their novels in a forced or unnatural way.

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.

Updike's fiction has been obsessed with death ever since his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, described a group of elderly people facing their slow doom in a nursing home.

But also that they were not intended to be fiction (in the sense that a novel is fiction).

The problem with religion is similar to the problem with fiction: thousands of novels are published in English each year, and without literary critics and judging panels for awards like the Booker Prize, we'd be floundering around without any idea as to what might be worth reading and what probably isn't.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.

Mormons are good people in general, but that does not exclude their belief is based on a «science - fiction novel» (the Book of Mormon) as well as Muslims who based their belief on a «poetry book» (the Quran).

Much fiction included a «deathbed scene», presented with a sentimental attention to detail; many will remember such scenes in the novels of Charles Dickens, guaranteed to move the reader to tears as each circumstance was described.

The Once and Future King has just been reissued in a reasonably attractive deluxe hardback edition as part of Penguin's Galaxy series of modern science fiction and fantasy novels.

I always fall into her novels in a way that I have found harder with fiction lately.

Some Girls reads like a swiftly - paced novel, but gets under your skin in a way fiction can't.

These books would appear in full, so the reader of the novel would read the reading of the narrator — mysteries, romances, westerns, sci fi, and «literary» fiction, his taste would be catholic.

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.