Sentences with phrase «fiction novels like»

John Green is a successful author of Young Adult fiction novels like «The Fault in our Stars» with a passionate following of fans.

It's a story with eerie echoes of science - fiction novels like J.G. Ballard's «The Crystal World» and Stephen King's «Under the Dome,» though I confess that an early shot of a meteor crashing into a lighthouse put me briefly in mind of a dystopian Nicholas Sparks.

How this might play out is anyone's guess, although science fiction novels like Kim Stanley Robinson's «Mars Trilogy» give an interesting glimpse into what could transpire once we get there.

The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away... Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.

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Not only do figures like Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama credit fiction with expanding their outlook and exercising their minds, but science even suggests that a great novel can boost empathy, a hallmark of excellent leaders.

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.

Like other Willis novels, this book uses a science fiction premise to season a screwball comedy.

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.

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

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.

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.

Podcast Transcript: It sounds like something out of a bad science fiction novel.

Science - fiction writers have been resurrecting Neandertals in novels for decades, imagining what it would be like to see and communicate (not to mention mate) with another species of human.

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.

I tend not to take risks with fiction novels because I'm afraid I could end up with something like, say, Atonement on my hands.

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.

For example, you see that you both like to read science fiction novels and you wish to find out who their favourite author is.

Over 40 dating online may sound like something out of a science fiction novel but it isn't.

And those novels, just like novels in genres like science fiction and mystery, share common elements but vary in quality, depending on how well they're written.

I gather the taxonomy of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach novels goes something like, family: speculative fiction; genus: Weird fiction; species: New Weird.

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.

The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel Monkey Planet, this science fiction film was the least - liked by the series» legion of fans.

While never the most conventional screenwriter to begin with («Pulp Fiction» is a sprawling, ambitious jigsaw puzzle, for one), in recent years Tarantino's screenplays have pushed the envelope further, eschewing most cinematic narrative conventions, with his movies becoming more like filmed novels that don't bother with traditional structure.

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.

But Solaris is less a science - fiction film than it is an existentialist melodrama that, by winnowing itself down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsky's trance - like adaptation), locates the core issues of identity and love that plague the dark hours.

The adaptation of Orson Scott Card's beloved science fiction novel Ender's Game hit theatres on Friday, and while it's not looking like a break - out hit, it did not embarrass itself either.

Being such a massive phenomenon has made The Hunger Games an easy target to tilt at but the truth is that, staying close to the Suzanne Collins novel, this film adaptation is a lean, smart science fiction thriller that there's much to like about.

Solaris is primarily recommended for those who love science fiction in its purest of forms, like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner, and especially for those who are familiar with the novel and previous film but are curious to see another take on the subject.

An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn't the first mash - up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild West and Back to the Future Part III are other examples), but it is one of the first in a popular burgeoning trend in mixing genres that has seen books like «Pride and Prejudice & Zombies» become popular.

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.

Like too many science fiction films and novels, there's far too much exposition to get through before the real story grips us.

«Lo siento, lo siento, lo siento — that's all you can say» plays like a manifestation of Cormac McCarthy's unpunctuated, unadorned prose, and Code 46 likewise unfolds like a science - fiction novel written by McCarthy.

Although that may sound like a dystopian science fiction novel, I think there might be some grain of truth.

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Overall, the novel sounds like a change of pace for Quindlen, who often writes about more serious issues in her fiction.

Allende is best known for her memoirs, historical fiction and magical realism, so this novel sounds like a departure — if only because of its contemporary setting.

Dan Chaon's novel Await Your Reply was «a profound and haunting exploration of the shifting, often tenuous, nature of identity... a thrilling example of the best of contemporary literary fiction,» although he's probably best known for his story collections, like National Book Award finalist Among the Missing, in which he» [brought] clarity to the confusion of people's inner motives.»

Partial Bibliography Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974, poems) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974, nonfiction narrative) Holy the Firm (1977, nonfiction narrative) Living by Fiction (1982, non-fiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The AbundanceFiction (1982, non-fiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction) The Abundance (2016)

Although some of the central events of the novel, like World War II and the atomic bomb drop at Nagasaki, are familiar territory for fiction, Lee prioritizes out - of - the - ordinary perspectives: her Korean characters are first the colonized, and then the outsiders trying to thrive in a foreign country despite segregation and persecution.

Fans of folklore - based fiction like The Snow Child, The Great Glass Sea or Mr. Fox would enjoy Adrienne Celt's myth - steeped first novel, which wraps Polish folktales and a family curse over four generations of women.

by Richard Lea in The Guardian (September 28, 2016)-- When the writer Rebecca Forster first heard how Google was using her work, it felt like she was trapped in a science fiction novel.

If you would like to publish a memoir, a collection of short stories, a science fiction novel, romance, and more, we would be excited to speak to you.

A Compelling Tale: Some people have simply lived a life that reads like a good fiction novel or seems almost like a movie.

If you have written a great science fiction / fantasy novel like Hugh, why not enter our Full Moon Awards competition?

If an agent likes your query and you write fiction, you'll then send sample chapter or the full novel.

If that sounds like something out of a fiction novel, it's because it is.

I reviewed another author from this company and I like how this company conducts its business, treats its authors, promotes its novels and its attitude towards Christian fiction.

Like Aisha am also writing my first fiction novel and finding it both daunting and exciting work and feel out of depth but am determined to write and finish my first novel anyway.

You're writing fiction, and you'd like to make money from your novels.

The one thing I don't like about the Android store is the lack of clearly defined categories to find Fiction, SCI - FI, Graphic Novels and Manga.