Sentences with phrase «fiction tales»

A thoughtful science fiction tale from a promising new voice in independent cinema.

Our picks for book clubs this month are a literary superstar's short story collection, a stranger - than - fiction tale of two brothers and a timely novel of corruption and celebrity!

We have new short speculative fiction tales from authors around the world.

This science fiction tale about family and relativity demands to be seen on the big screen.

He writes the kind of stories he likes to read, fantasy and science fiction tales featuring vivid worlds, strong characters, and smart action all surrounding a core of mystery.

That's what makes these weird - fiction tales so compelling as well — strong conceptual hooks built around audience emotional response.

The second audio installment of my science fiction tale, «Water to Share», is now available for your free listening pleasure.

But given the title, we're inclined to assume it's a science fiction tale with a Big Idea, possibly linked to a certain large piece of equipment over at CERN.

David Marusek spins his quirky science fiction tales by the glow of the Northern Lights in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»

Pickard sees great things for the historical fiction tale on Oscar night.

There's no doubt this new trilogy of movies in the Planet of the Apes saga have offered up something impressive and worthy of being considered in one of the best science fiction tales put to cinema.

On the one hand, Rodrigo Garcia's Albert Nobbs is a patently ridiculous science - fiction tale set in a Victorian England run amuck with drag - king transvestites just looking for an opportunity to scrape out the same hardscrabble Dickensian existence as their male counterparts.

Zero Dawn's tragic science - fiction tale frequently reduced me to tears: as it coldly recounts the future history of Earth's demise and rebirth, it injects relatable tastes of humanity that bring it all back home.

This science fiction tale introduces us to Fisher just as he has been born.

Commercial for Wood House This science - fiction tale plunges the reader into a future where reality and technology blend imperceptibly, and a teenage girl must race to save the world from a nano - revolution that a corporation calls «ReCreation Day.»

This flash fiction tale comes from Steven H. Wilson — award - winning fiction author, publisher, and podcaster.

«Fifty Shades of Grey» was originally a fan fiction tale based in the «Twilight» universe, and with a few character name changes and a traditional publisher's backing, it has now become the highest selling book series in history.

The third is a contemporary fiction tale with a bit of a mystery (Morning Son).

«I'm a huge David Cronenberg fan, and I always viewed Fantastic Four and the kind of weirdness that happens to these characters and how they're transformed to really fall in line more with a Cronenberg - ian science fiction tale of something horrible happening to your body and [it] transforming out of control.

In a science fiction tale by the late Iain Banks, the only way a huge computer can make a truly accurate predictive model is to create a near - perfect simulation, including recreating the realistic lives of all the people involved.

Sophie Thatcher brought an emotional gravity to «Prospect,» a low - budget science fiction tale of resilience and survival.

He wants to deflect, and mesmerize the crowd with science - fiction tales: Mars, Hyperloop, Semis, Tunnels... why change?

Still, this science - fiction tale is worth discovering, and the dialogue is well - written.

I was pleasantly surprised by the story, a science - fiction tale of a «utopian» society where everything is strictly monitored and controlled.

«The Space Between Us» is both a science fiction tale and a high - school romance, managing to bridge any gap handily — largely to the credit of the two principal actors.

One of those stranger - than - fiction tales that would be written off as high - concept nonsense, were it not for the fact it really happened, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

American Animals is Layton's narrative debut, but it similarly tracks a stranger - than - fiction tale of four young men who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history.

It's the most satisfying and innovative film he's made since his 2007 feature debut, Timecrimes, which fuses a murder mystery with a time - traveling science - fiction tale.

Half science - fiction tale, half espionage thriller, it's a pleasantly far - fetched endeavor that moves along so briskly that it leaves no time to consider its implausibilities, which are many.

Bart Layton's audacious feature debut uniquely tacks together documentary and narrative styles to tell the stranger than fiction tale of a notorious art heist gone horribly wrong.

After a fairly long career as a writer, Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's Ex Machina, a provocative science - fiction tale that earned him ample praise.

All of this adds up to a stimulating science - fiction tale.

But a film of this type must do more, and this is where Transcendence — a love story buried in a Science Fiction tale — ultimately fails.

- Andre Ovredal's award - winning «The Tunnel» — short film (12 mins); «A family is caught in slow - moving traffic with the hope of making it home safely in this stunningly dark science fiction tale.»

Now, it appears that the studio has found a director for a film reboot of the project, and it's someone with a history of rebooting beloved and enigmatic science fiction tales: Blade Runner -LSB-...]

Annihilation promises to be a cerebral science - fiction tale that could rival the acclaim of last year's Blade Runner 2049 or even 2016's Oscar - nominated Arrival.

An all - star cast (Melissa Leo, Adam Scott, Peter Fonda, Juno Temple, Mad Men's Vincent Katheiser) recount the stranger - than - fiction tale of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the woman who founded the American Atheists organization back in the early Sixties, helped to get Bible - reading out of schools and was later kidnapped and killed by one of her former employees.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past.

Fans of Jennifer Donnelly's These Shallow Graves (2015) will appreciate another historical - fiction tale of a headstrong heroine who refuses to accept her circumstances passively.

The reader really feels for the people she talks about, she's excellent at capturing the moment and empathy, and in the stranger than fiction tales she delivers the human and the real.

Part One of my science fiction tale, «Water to Share» from our 2014 speculative fiction anthology, Somewhere in the Middle of Eternity, published by Firebringer Press.

Russell is most famous for The Sparrow, a science - fiction tale of alien first contact that is so much more than that.

USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past they both love and study.

If a science fiction tale were that good, it would simply be known as drama or literary fiction or a classic horror tale.

True History of the Camino de Santiago: The Stranger - than - Fiction Tale of the Typo that Invented Spain and the Biblical Loser Who Became a Legend

What science - fiction tales, by Mr. Clarke or others, do you see having the most relevance to our current situation coming of age on a crowding planet?