Sentences with phrase «fiction than space»

Not exact matches

Though some shelves contain stacks of books, others have printed aluminum plates that mimic books — a feature that has prompted criticism that the much - touted space is «more fiction than books.»

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

The result is less science fiction than a metaphor drawn from it: a peculiar family portrait whose characters, though all lost in their own space, never stray far from their immediate earthbound environs (except in flights of fancy).

Dealing in Gilderoy's mental collapse and corruption rather than a physical threat, it is perhaps closest to a David Lynch film, with a strangling claustrophobia and playful approach to time and space, reality and fiction.

That aside, with space war and aliens, this is much harder science fiction than the relatively relatable, grounded stuff of «The Hunger Games,» and it may be trickier to capture the right demographics, especially as the book isn't a recent bestseller.

Proving fact is more compelling than fiction; Apollo 13 offers a great look at space history, sure to whet your family's appetite for this subject.

According to Blake Morrison, writing in The Guardian, «what draws them to a country house setting is the space it offers for everything to happen under one roof; the house of fiction has many rooms, but country house fiction has more rooms than most.»

As you do not generally cite the figures for Science Fiction > Galactic Empire vs Science Fiction > Space Exploration there is no need to go into the sub-categories as everything there is already in the top level Science Fiction category and you have the ability to exclude results by a rank judged to mean less than one sale per day.

Some of its set pieces feel more tongue in cheek than the other games (see the ghost ship in No - man's Wharf), but if that means we get to fall hundreds of feed through a tear in time and space onto a throne room suspended in a chaos realm before taking on an ancient king and his cronies with a litany of soldier friends at our back — it's straight up Paradise Lost fan - fiction — then I don't mind some cheese on occasion.

On the other two walls of the main gallery, which are painted a customary white, there is an oil painting of blue balls on a white field, «Bloobs» (2014) by Mathew Cerletty; a loopy, oddly affecting drawing, «Untitled (shit)» (2011) by David Shrigley, of concentric circles emanating from the word «shit»; Vern Blosum's «Off The Hook» (2015), a larger - than - life - size graphite drawing of a vintage payphone with its receiver dangling, appropriately, off the hook; and Emily Mae Smith's «The Studio (Science Fiction)» (2015), which depicts the split halves of an eggshell hovering above a flying saucer / fried egg, the edge of its white perimeter forming the words «THE STUDIO» against the starry blackness of outer space.

Joan Fontcuberta: Stranger than Fiction at Science Museum The new media space at Science Museum has had a great start and this was a fantastically surreal and humorous exhibition.

These copies are perhaps more significant and tell us more about history than the original artworks themselves by weaving fiction into history and leaving space to contemplate and reconsider the past.