Sentences with phrase «fiction novels as»

After the Simpson trial, she resigned as a prosecutor, wrote a book about the case, and penned a few crime fiction novels as well.

BB eBooks welcomes simple fiction novels as well as more complex non-fiction works.

Novelist and screenplay writer, Brenna Lauren Crowder, is preparing to release her first two commercial women's fiction novels as well as a contemporary romance series.

Surely, no ivy league colleges will ever teach science fiction novels as part of the curriculum.

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.

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?

Although generally categorized as a novel for young readers, this Newbery award - winner and science fiction classic, grapple with adult - sized questions about the nature of God and the existence of evil.

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.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

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...

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

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).

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.&raquAs 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.&raquas «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.&raquas 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.&raquas 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.

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.

Don't try to make the reading time «educational», but choose a variety of classics, historical novels and contemporary fiction as it appeals to you all.

1999 his «Personal Injuries» got immortalized as Time's best fiction novel.

As the evidence and observations of these FRB anomalies continue to trickle in, however, astronomers are cautiously optimistic that they have stumbled not across fiction or technical error, but something much more novel.

The most common mistake the computer made was misclassifying horror novels as either science fiction or fantasy — perhaps not so surprising given the ambiguity between those genres.

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

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

And physicist Robert Forward, no stranger to fiction, would use a planetary system around Barnard's Star as the setting for his novel Rocheworld (1984).

In the classic 1973 Arthur C. Clarke science fiction novel «Rendezvous With Rama,» a mysterious object is detected outside the orbit of Jupiter as it rapidly approaches the inner solar system.

She writes science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories for adults and children, and is known as a prominent voice for the asexual community.

Used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries, the cordyceps origin story reads like a science fiction novel: it begins its life as an endoparasitoid, meaning it grows as a parasite, typically on insects.

Whether you enjoy smutty romance novels or action - packed science fiction, you can share your enthusiasm as part of a book club in New York City.

Instead they prefer men of mystery, with 19 % picking thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read, so any men palming through one of Benjamin Black's crime fiction novels (real name John Banville, he uses Black as a pseudonym - it just adds to his mystery!)

I also enjoy a good crime mystery, as well as an obtimistic science fiction novel.

His name has been used in the game's promotion by its developers and publisher, Microsoft, to trade both on the renown for his classic novel, Ender's Game, as well his 2006 book, Empire, which was based on the same fiction as Shadow Complex: a Right - Wing - vs.

In adapting HG Wells's science fiction novel about a renegade scientist who creates an island of monsters, Hutchinson would be working with one of his great acting idols, as well as the acclaimed director John Frankenheimer.

EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kaufman has been signed to do a page one rewrite of I.Q. 83, an adaptation of Arthur Herzog's classic 1978 science fiction novel that Paramount is now developing as a star vehicle for Steve Carell.

Based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, Scott's latest science fiction film sees Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who's presumed dead and left behind by his crew on the red planet.

The literature of Frank Miller is a prime example that comics aren't just for kids, and just because they are graphic novels, they are as important to our culture as any other piece of American fiction writing.

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.

Based on a novel by Jules Verne, this science fiction story introduces audiences to a curious world where elephants are the size of small dogs and bees loom as large as single engine airplanes.

Her story spurred a plethora of media coverage as well as non-fiction and fiction books, including James Ellroy's 1987 novel, «The Black Dahlia,» which was the basis for Brian DePalma's film of the same name, made in 2006.

Based on Dan Simmons» 2007 novel, David Kajganich and Soo Hugh's 10 - episode nightmare — which premiered last night, and is intended as the potential first installment of an anthology series — is a work of harrowing historical fiction, one in which supernatural menace looms large over the proceedings, and yet is ultimately less threatening — or terrifying — than man himself.

The temptation to brand the film as «autobiographical» is hard to resist: Baumbach did grow up in Brooklyn in the 1970's, one of four siblings, to a pair of parents who both wrote for a living (his father Jonathan wrote novels and short fiction, while his mother Georgia Brown contributed regularly to the Village Voice).

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.

Since its release in 2011, the novel has been hailed as a generally great science - fiction read and has gained even more attention since the acquisition of VR maker Oculus to Facebook earlier this year.

Very loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name, indie punk Doug Liman (director of Swingers) has constructed a parable of self - discovery that can as easily be read as a subversion of the conventions of the thriller genre, a discussion of the ways in which the audience participates in the process of genre fiction, or as a science - fiction piece in which strangely robotic über menschen run amuck in a technocratic world metropolis.

It's a very tough movie to watch (it's violent, intense, unbelievably sad and even infuriating at times), but like the crime novel at the center of the story, it demonstrates the power that a great piece of fiction can have on you, even one as polarizing and challenging as this.

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».

Though it's visually arresting, this film is not quite as deep as the source novel, a speculative piece of historical fiction about Johannes Vermeer's famous painting, but Johansson shines as the girl who inspires the great painter played by Colin Firth.

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.