Sentences with phrase «fiction of a place like»

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Islam meaning is «Submission to One God» and that was Abrahams Religion on which all the Prophets before him and after him had followed until «Issa the Son of Mary» then as our Friend»» «gozar»» «mentioned that (God did not need a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions)... doesn't that look like a fine line of poetry that summarized the whole situation of the crime that took place against a prophet and messenger of God became a dead sin taker...??

After one reads Nietzsche's fevered discourses about the creation of new values that would need to take place once people realized that the God - idea is fiction, the ethical prescriptions he endorsed end up sounding at best like a juiced - up version of the old values.

It's light and fun fiction, but also really socially relevant with what today's experience of being a woman in the work place can look like and trying to climb to the top!

Shannon notes that most of the inspiration for the appearance of aliens in Hollywood science fiction movies comes from places like deep sea vents, which are home to everything from giant bone - eating worms to «rainbow glitter» jellyfish.

A retired railroader twice married and now widowed, who likes to read mostly non fiction and history traveling to places that have history and I am especially fond of Great Britain.

It plays like a response to the age of fan theories and puzzle box fiction, in which stories are set up to be pieced together, with every element eventually snapping into place.

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.

As the writer of such science fiction features as «Never Let Me Go,» «Ex-Machina» and, now, «Annihilation,» Alex Garland — like many others — uses the genre to comment on us and our place in the universe.

It plays like one of those films based on a true story, but it's really a fiction film that draws from some personal experiences of actor (and former pro soccer player) Andrew Shue (The Rainmaker, «Melrose Place») growing up and attending Columbia High School, the South Orange, New Jersey school depicted in the movie.

Though Disney flirted with science fiction in the years before and after, The Black Hole is their most sincere effort, and one which seems out of place alongside films like Freaky Friday and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.

Episodes: I Think I'm Gon na Like It Here Devil May Care I'm No Angel Slumber Party Dog Dean Afternoon Heaven Can't Wait Bad Boys Rock and a Hard Place Holy Terror Road Trip First Born Sharp Teeth The Purge Captives #THINMAN Blade Runners Mother's Little Helper Meta Fiction Alex Annie Alexis Ann Bloodlines King of the Damned Stairway to Heaven Do You Believe in Miracles?

Clear by now that the script by «Sergei Petrov» and «Rene Fontaine» is actually by Dylan and director Charles, the main defense of the film is that it reads a little like a Dylan song, forgetting that Dylan's songs are, for the most part, poetry of a time and a place rather than rhythmless fictions too in love with their own obscurity.

Yet just as it's wrong to place all the blame for blurring fact with fiction on the guy in the Oval Office and the media that he deplores (and, of course, consumes in massive doses), it's also wrong to ascribe the schools» failure to combat such blurring entirely on their inattention to subjects like civic education and media literacy.

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.

For fiction set in ancient times, we like The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, which takes place in 70 C.E. at Masada, a mountain fortress south of Jerusalem.

I made that choice intentionally, though it entailed certain risks, the first, quite simply, that places of such celebrity may upstage characters and events; the second, that they will make the story seem superficial or glib, like the escapist fiction you buy at the airport to distract yourself from the boredom and anxiety of flying.

Like Romance and Speculative Fiction, New Adult can fall into a number of categories or sub-genres, so non-contemporary stories may also take place in historical settings or in paranormal worlds.

In it I explored the use of gunpowder weapons in science fiction, notably in the movie Aliens but also on occasion even in places like the original Star Trek (where admittedly, they were described as antiques).

-- The Washington Post «Adam Johnson's remarkable novel The Orphan Master's Son is set in North Korea, an entire nation that has conformed to the fictions spun by a dictator and his inner circle... Mr. Johnson is a wonderfully flexible writer who can pivot in a matter of lines from absurdity to atrocity... We don't know what's really going on in that strange place, but a disquieting glimpse suggesting what it must be like can be found in this brilliant and timely novel.»

I'm thinking here of the slowness and inefficiency of the query system, bad luck / timing, lack of connections, or if you write from a place like Canada (where the publishing world is based on literary fiction) and you write genre fiction.

Taking place in a science - fiction / fantasy future where a large tower has grown out of the ground, Sid, the large hulking Gears like gentleman who is the game's main character enters the building in order to figure out what is going on.

Best Game Where an Alien's a Robot's Head Pops Like a Grape Spaceships, little green men, giant mecha... the world of science fiction will always have a place in video games.

Best Game Where an Alien's a Demon's Head Pops Like a Grape Spaceships, little green men, giant mecha... the world of science fiction will always have a place in video games.

It's not a story that gets told so well very often, and it makes you think about the real places in our world where a story like Aloy's — being an outcast solely because of tradition, superstition, or caste — might not be fiction.»

«With great nostalgia for the time when aspirations replaced real life and an apparently perfect world seemed like a possible fiction to live by, this series speaks of the self - destructive nature of mankind and the creation of what is perceived as a safe place,» the photographer writes on her website.