Sentences with phrase «fiction than science fiction»

HERSHMAN LEESON: Yeah, the writing did, but science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.

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CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, draws more than 180,000 people and 4,000 companies, all of whom are eager to know: Will this be the year [fill - in - the - blank technology] finally makes the leap from science fiction to something people can buy, and might actually want to?

Isaac Asimov, a legend in the science fiction genre, authored more than 500 books.

The new $ 200 Fitbit Versa looks a lot more like an Apple Watch, with a brighter, curvier design than the chunky, science fiction inspired $ 300 Ionic model released last year.

In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators of the science fiction show Westworld.

In 2018, rapidly developing technology is allowing organizations to understand their customers in ways that seem more like science fiction than traditional sales and marketing.

Because science has kind of proven or talked about all those things you were just asking... maybe pick up a book other than a work of fiction and learn something that's real and tangible.

The cloistered world of these thoroughly pre-Vatican II nuns, with their rigid rules, harshly penitential disciplines, and permanent, world - denying vows, must seem more alien to contemporary readers than the futuristic realms of most science fiction novels.

Perhaps the best argument against a super-intelligent agent creating the universe is that moderately - intelligent science fiction writers often dream up universes that are way cooler and often even «work» better than the reality we all experience.

If this is correct, the strange creatures of science fiction movies, with two arms and two legs and a head, are far more like us than anything we are really likely to meet «out there».

It is more creative than science fiction, the love stories are more intense than romance novels, and the Bible, when rightly understood, is more colorful than a comic book.

These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of science fiction.

It will be objected that this explanation is closer to science fiction than to science.

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.

Now, this is somewhat changing in 2000 +, due to advances in technology (hyperspeed capable missiles pose credible threat to aircraft carries; space bourne weapons platforms are somewhat closer to reality than science fiction) and economics (China finally industrialized; developed better economy; and developed, bought and stole enough technology to place it on a better level).

Genres, rather than books: science fiction has never appealed; pastel - covered chick lit, whose promise of escapism rapidly becomes irritation.

ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.

Any science fiction aficionado has seen it all before: beaming through walls, riding in starships that move faster than light, or traveling instantly to distant places in space and time.

WORLD building is at the heart of great science fiction, but it can be tricky at less than book length.

Teleportation, the science - fiction fantasy of moving objects instantaneously through space from one location to another, has become reality — an achievement both more subtle and spectacular than many early news reports indicated.

Despite recent headlines saying we don't live in a simulation, the answer to a question that's more science fiction than science remains far out of reach

As Americans marvel over Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Voyager 1 beams back pictures stranger than science fiction.

The thing with science fiction that's different than other genres is that it's always about the idea.

More important than any piece of scientific research is the collection of fearsome science - fiction scenarios that comprise its implications.

Once considered the stuff of science fiction, fully reusable rocketry is now closer to reality than ever before

But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing fiction about science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more than those of any other living novelist.

There might be purists who'd argue that what Crichton writes are better classified as techno - thrillers than works of science fiction, because drawing petty distinctions is what being a purist is all about.

One view, subscribed to by the towering French figure of Jules Gabriel Verne, a man with a better claim to being the Father of Science Fiction than anyone else, was that the genre should consider itself almost a legitimate field of science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code ofScience Fiction than anyone else, was that the genre should consider itself almost a legitimate field of science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code ofscience proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code of rigor.

That is a far likelier scenario than the portrayal of aliens in most science fiction films.

But triumphs in the field of AI are bringing to the fore questions that, until recently, seemed better left to science fiction than to science: How will we ensure that the rise of the machines is entirely under human control?

Similarly, if a science - fiction writer has something he wants to say about the interactions between some intelligent extraterrestrials and our present human race, he often finds it necessary to pretend that some means of faster - than - light travel can be found (tachyon transmissions, black - hole transit, «warp drive», or whatever), and Einstein be hanged.

Thanks to this new interpretation, the existence of these objects could be closer to science than fiction.

«After BitTorrent, the effect of release lag on science - fiction and action movies is much greater than it is for other genres,» Danaher says.

Ballard goes the furthest and, quoting from his earlier writing, says: «Science fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other than science fiction are doomed to irrelScience fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other than science fiction are doomed to irrelscience fiction are doomed to irrelevance.

For more than a half - century, NASA has made the stuff of science fiction into reality.

Could this fading star be the first evidence that other cosmic cultures were more than science fiction?

It may sound like science fiction, but this scenario may be closer than you think.

Targeting conclusions that are closer to fiction than science, both Fine and Jordan - Young highlight exaggerations, unreplicated claims, and other silliness from research on neurological differences between the human sexes.

This piece of audio forensics was science fiction when it appeared in the movie The Conversation more than three decades ago.

As far as certain death in a science fiction plot line goes, being ejected into the vacuum of space is more than a pretty sure thing.

The notion is more than science fiction.

Governments agree they should focus most on cutting greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris agreement rather than on science - fiction - like short - cuts to limit temperatures blamed for causing more heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels.

McGrath, the Butler University professor who studies religion and science fiction, said Smith's cosmology has to be understood through the prism of his times, when astronomers, armed with ever bigger telescopes, explored deeper into the solar system than they ever had before.

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.

His science fiction was more realistic than most and the movies 2001 and 2010 popularized the vision of space travel tremendously.

During a keynote speech on day two, cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees said he often tells students it is better to read first - rate science fiction than second - rate science.

Although the parallels with science fiction are obvious, the object — designated 1I / 2017 U1 («Oumuamua)-- is quite a bit smaller than Rama's fictional 34 - mile (55 - kilometer) long cylindrical mass and (probably) not an alien starship.

It was standing room only Friday night at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel's Hale Hoaloha Pavilion; more than 750 attendees came to enjoy a behind - the - scenes peek at Interstellar and an in - depth look at how Dr. Thorne assisted Hollywood in turning science fact into science fiction.

Revisiting Gattaca at this time is important precisely because it coincides with the emergence of new genetic technologies that are making a then - futuristic vision put forth two decades ago more a matter of science than fiction.

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