Sentences with phrase «fiction writers in»

Isaac Asimov is one of the greatest science fiction writers in history — his Foundation novels and Robot universe (which recently inspired the I, Robot Will Smith film) continue to inform popular culture to this day.

This article shares advice specifically with fiction writers in mind.»

Fourteen science fiction writers in 1987 were asked to write predictions of what the world would be like a quarter - century thence.

He currently moderates the Space Coast Fiction Writers in Cocoa — right down the road from where Major Anthony Nelson used to live with that nice girl, Genie.

When I wrote the post above, I mainly had fiction writers in mind.

If you're like most writers, there aren't any other serious fiction writers in your circle of family or friends.

Neal Stephenson, one of the most popular science - fiction writers in America, imagines Earth's impending doom and its aftermath in his latest gripping novel.

He has been named one of the «twenty best young fiction writers in America» by The New Yorker and one of the «Best of Young American Novelists» by Granta.

Salem Art Works offered a two - week residency from July 7 to July 20 for fiction writers in Salem, New York.

14th — I'll be doing a master class on SF / F for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers in Golden.

Philip K. Dick is one of the most influential science fiction writers in the history of the medium.

One of the top - selling fiction writers in the world, Patricia has sold over an astounding 100 million books in 35 languages in 120 countries.

Our protagonist, Amy Gallup, is a contentedly washed - up fiction writer in her 60s who spends most of her days teaching writing classes online from her California home.

Not exact matches

I feel very dispirited when I meet young writers who say, «Oh, I want to write vampire fiction because that's what's in.»

The series was pitched to him in Los Angeles by superstar science - fiction writer J. Michael Straczynski and Andy and Lana Wachowski, the directors of The Matrix series of movies.

In fact, Mary Shelley is considered one of the earliest writers of science fiction.

But despite his intent, he and other popularized science fiction writers are playing a big part in shaping the future.

At least the writers of the bible and Stephen King had one thing in common — they both wrote good fiction.

Could God use modern writers of fiction, or perhaps even baseball players, much as he used the Assyrians in Isaiah's day, to communicate his truth to us?

What I found, in addition to more wonderful reading, was a writer who had lived in many of the worlds evoked by his fiction.

«Actually, NL, anything your generation can conjure up or assume you are conjuring up with those mash potato brains, has already been written in that dusty book you so despise aka there is nothing new under the sun» So, now are you arguing that the bible writer's had superior imaginations to modern fiction writers?

«No major writer in our history,» he said, «has ever shown such an extent of accomplishment» as this author of essays, parodies, apologetics, criticism, light verse, and memoirs; scholar and author of detective fiction; ecclesiastical historian; translator; and homilist of genius.

The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).

It is no coincidence that the near unanimous judgment of science fiction writers is that a world dominated by technological hardware is a world in which individual human self - identity is missing.

L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer back in the days when science fiction was worth about two cents a word, is said to have decreed to a gathering of fellow writers that religion was where the real money could be found.

At a time when many writers of fiction appear content to spin out tales concocted by marketing firms, or else lose themselves in worlds of arch and arcane wordplay, Murdoch is extravagant, enthusiastic and earnest.

Both of these scenes — as well as innumerable others like them in Tolstoy's fiction — are simply far beyond Dostoevsky's range as a writer; he could never have produced anything remotely like them.

Nothing is more damaging to fiction, she wrote, than writers who try to impose their beliefs on their novels in a forced or unnatural way.

In a newspaper column, science fiction writer Orson Scott Card once told the story of a woman who called his house and told his wife that she'd had a one - night stand with him the previous night.

But it was customary to pay a penny a word, half a cent a word, and so science fiction writers, in order to make a living, had to go extremely fast.

To take just one example, in arguing that few contemporary writers take on the fundamental question of belief versus unbelief, Elie dismisses Alice McDermott's fiction as being merely about Irish Catholic New Yorkers from the 1950s and»60s.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Randy Boyagoda seems not to have noticed that the writers he's tired of seeing cited by his fellow Christians did not place their faith, as he does, in anything so small as literature («Faith in Fiction,» August / September).

I received many, many messages from readers offering counter-evidence to my complaint in the form of notable contemporary writers who do engage faith matters in their fiction, and indeed Image journal has developed a list of what it calls «the Image Top 50 Contemporary Writers of Faith» in response to thewriters who do engage faith matters in their fiction, and indeed Image journal has developed a list of what it calls «the Image Top 50 Contemporary Writers of Faith» in response to theWriters of Faith» in response to the essay.

I remember seeing an interview with a Baptist fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little sex in his books.

I remember seeing an interview with a Baptist fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little socks in his books.

But, whereas in ancient times the apocalyptic writers expected God to usher in the new world, the first science fiction authors described a future created by human invention.

I run the online shops Elephantine and Mignon, am a fiction writer, and live in Seattle with my husband and two cats.

Whether it's the fiction writer tying in a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter, derailing the reader's plan to stop for the night five chapters ago, or the comedian on stage who knows that he must surprise his audience at least 180 times... keep the surprises coming.

Additionally, I participate in a weekly fiction writing challenge with 11 other awesome writers.

Toby is a part - time writer of fiction, poetry, music and freelance articles, with particular interests in creativity and the nature of consciousness.

The news out of Washington is putting a kink in the bevy of political dramas on TV as reality becomes stranger than any fiction writers can dream up.

The Guardian reports: «A former minister and fiction writer, Alvarado Quesada, 38, had 61 % of the vote with results in from 95 % of polling stations, a far bigger lead than predicted by opinion polls that foresaw a tight race.»

First proposed in 1962 by physicist and science fiction writer Robert L. Forward, and subsequently developed and tested by the Benfords, these spacecraft are defined by their giant sails.

Because we physicists have realized that the nature of time is too important an issue to be left solely in the hands of science fiction writers.»

2 Birth of the (un) cool: In 1926 writer Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories, the first true science - fiction magazine.

And in June of 1959, we wrote, «The problems of eating and drinking under weightless conditions in space, long a topic of speculation [among] science fiction writers are now under investigation in a flying laboratory.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

«People always wanted storytelling games,» says Emily Short, an award - winning writer of interactive fiction — text - based adventures where the player has to type in commands at an on - screen prompt.

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