Sentences with phrase «fiction world where»

Transistor is an action RPG set in a stunningly well - realized science fiction world where players are cast in the role of Red, a denizen of the futuristic neon - soaked city of Cloudbank.

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«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..
Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.
«Both men embody Thomas Edison's values and principles as evidenced by Jeff Immelt leading GE to become the world's biggest infrastructure technology company, and Astro Teller creating a place where big, science - fiction - sounding ideas can be turned into proven technologies that make a real impact in the world.
Hence Shakespeare's sister, writing in a world where gender did not debilitate, would have written plays the equal of her brother's plays.2 The Harlequin romances are the equal of Faulkner's fiction as expressions of American culture.
Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:
if only i could live in a delusional world where i get to CHOOSE what is fact vs fiction... i think i can fly today so i'll just jump of this building...
Medical control had become a legal fiction in a world where 99 per cent of those seeking abortions got them.
In all, what Cassini found on Titan was a world out of science fiction, where the scenery — landforms and clouds — are recognizable but made of unusual substances, where the look of the place is familiar but the feel is not.
But John's command does push the film further into the old science - fiction, doomsday territory of films like Five; The World, the Flesh and the Devil; and Night of the Living Dead, where the only way in the world the races could commingle was at itsWorld, the Flesh and the Devil; and Night of the Living Dead, where the only way in the world the races could commingle was at itsworld the races could commingle was at its end.
The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.
Sarah Fiction and her single mother live in West Crockdale, where at times, it seems like a stop between two worlds.
Much as the move to PlayStation marked the series» transition into the «solid» realm of 3D, REX marked a paradigm shift within Metal Gear's world fiction where weapons and technology supplant flesh and blood soldiers.
The mother and the 7 homeschooled children, 6 boys and 1 girl, are essential prisoners in their own home, where the boys» only relief and only window to an outside world lies in the access they are granted to recorded movies, which they constantly watch and then elaborately reconstruct, acting out scenes from the likes of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Goodfellas.
It's not as drastically different as what's depicted on the show, an America where the Nazis and Japanese won World War II, but still, depictions of an America besieged by Nazis and under threat of nuclear bombs is less the stuff of pure historical fiction here in the fall of 2017.
This is a world where the sun always shines, black - and - white science - fiction is usually showing on TV, and only Disasterpeace's John Carpenter-esque electronic score reminds you something awful is looming.
Based on a novel by Jules Verne, this science fiction story introduces audiences to a curious world where elephants are the size of small dogs and bees loom as large as single engine airplanes.
Would you want to live in a world where fiction (either in books or movies) was not allowed?
The problem with the film isn't in its placement in the realm of science fiction films as much as its placement in the real world, where the plot necessitates a triple - jump for every leap in logic to get us from point A to Z. For instance, the film pushes forward the notion that scientists don't give any thought or research whatsoever to the ramifications of their inventions before unleashing them on the world at large.
Hill has always had a penchant for dropping pulp fiction ideals of gangster code and loyalty under fire in a gritty existence, shaped and stylized into a rarified, at times insular world where the rest of the population is either backdrop to their story or simply absent from the frame.
(2014) dir Tim Grabham, Jasper Sharp [81 min; DCP] A real life science - fiction movie exploring a world creeping right beneath our feet, where time and space are magnified and intelligence redefined.
House of Docs (sharing Main Street digs with the Filmmakers Lodge, where traffickers in fiction were welcome as well) was the hub of a festival within the festival, a place where American filmmakers could meet their counterparts from around the world and participate in panel discussions and presentations.
Shot in Northern Minnesota, and taking advantage of both the Snowbate and IRRRB film rebate incentives, BLOOD STRIPE had its world premiere at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won the US Fiction Award.
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.»
The publishing world is changing and so am I. I expect that I'll always have one foot in the niche of Christian fiction, where so many of my friends and Allies live.
If you're just dipping your toe into science fiction and not sure where to begin or if you're a long - time fan and reader, this stellar collection, which is both historic and unique, is an excellent addition to your elibrary, providing world - class, award - winning reading right now and into the holidays.
Joanna Penn does this very well with her blog on JFPenn.com, where she writes very readable articles about strange and sometimes macabre things in interesting places around the world («14 Weird And Wonderful Places To See In Spain», for instance, or «12 Of The World's Best Anatomical Museums»): this ties in well with the dark thriller nature of her fiction, and with the international locations world («14 Weird And Wonderful Places To See In Spain», for instance, or «12 Of The World's Best Anatomical Museums»): this ties in well with the dark thriller nature of her fiction, and with the international locations World's Best Anatomical Museums»): this ties in well with the dark thriller nature of her fiction, and with the international locations used.
I felt you were an important contribution to the indie writer world: where so many others were doing genre work you succeeded with a book of literary fiction.
It would seem that post-apocalyptic fiction is mostly likely to be written where a country has achieved a high level of development in terms of civilization or power in the world.
Flash fiction writing advice so often focuses on moderation — on cutting out needless words, creating this myth of a world where every word matters, where the writer exerts complete control over every choice.
Jamel Brinkley's stories reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class - where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.
Keith Dixon One Stop Fiction «I would say the Alliance of Independent Authors is definitely a good thing — it's a very active organisation that's involved at a high level in the world of publishing, while at the same time having a great (private) Facebook group where you can get advice on all kinds of stuff, from copyright law to good cover designers to where the best local independent bookshop is.
Oddly enough, in a world where writers are increasingly being paid less for their work, Twitter fiction offers an opportunity to be paid.
As quoted by Mr. Porter Anderson in the new Digital Book World white paper, Mr. Guy states, «Adult fiction sales in the US are nearly 71 percent digital now, and that is also the category where indie sales have made the deepest inroads: today, 30 percent of all US adult fiction book purchases are of titles self - published by indie authors.»
While most post-apocalyptic fiction invites us to imagine how civilization might evolve after the world as we know it ends, Wool instead invites us to imagine what it might take — and what the costs might be — to prevent civilization from ever evolving beyond where we are right now.
From award winning science fiction author Robert N Stephenson, Vanishing Light takes you into a world where DigiCorp is all you need.
This site also contains Princeling, a fantasy novel set in a world where war has lasted for generations, From Hell to the Stars, a loose translation of a medieval science fiction classic, and Main Stream, a sampling of suspenseful historical fantasy stories.
I want to ask about your branding because a lot of people listening have nonfiction and fiction, and this is a big deal I think especially in the indie world where the ups and downs of both genres.
Where we question the general lack of imaginative or world - changing storytelling, or the hundreds of thousands of boring formula fiction with bad covers (got ta have bad to recognise the truly good), we must also question why similar stuff is sitting on my local bookstore's shelves.
Johnson's metathriller, spiked with gory intrigues and romantic subplots, is a ripping piece of fiction that is also an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory in a world where everyone's «a survivor who has nothing to live for.»
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.
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.
Black Ops 4 goes deeper than ever before into the fiction of multiplayer, where players will explore the world of Specialists... who they are, why they exist, and what battles they fight together... while mastering their gameplay through solo and multiplayer combat experiences.
Black Ops 4 goes deeper than ever before into the fiction of multiplayer, where players will explore the world of Specialists — who they are, why they exist, and what battles they fight together — while mastering their gameplay through solo and multiplayer combat experiences.
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
At the same time you're fighting people while flying around with these jet packs in this very fantastic cartoonish world, where it's kind of like a little bit of science fiction, and it's weird, everything is a little bit sideways.
The Studio Ghibli-esque art style is beautiful, offering a unique blend of fantasy and science fiction in a world where anthropomorphic animals coexist with humans.
Aksys Games has announced that Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of Dusk will release on Nintendo 3DS, letting you return to a gritty world where you must separate fact from fiction.
Andro Wekua is a Georgian artist now based in Zurich and Berlin, whose body of workis abundant in variety, piecing together fragmented fictions pictorially representing no - where worlds of mystery and intrigue.
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