Sentences with phrase «first by fiction»
When someone walks into a bookstore, all of the books are separated, first by fiction and non-fiction, next by genre or subject, then by sub-category and finally by author.
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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.
Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.
Star Maker in Last and First Men and Star Maker: Two Science - Fiction Novels By Olaf Stapledon.
In his book The Art of the Deal (Random House)-- Trump's autobiography which has been described by his ghostwriter as a «nonfiction work of fiction» — he claims his first wife, Ivana, was an alternate for the Czech ski team, yet the Czech Olympic committee says they have no record of this.
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.
The Road my Cormac McCarthy Fiction is the lie that tells the truth truer (a quote by Portland novelist, Tom Spanbauer) The Road is a meditative, dark read with a thin thread of light shining from first to last page.
It's not the best fiction I've ever read, but Young weaves together a compelling story, the first four chapters culminating with Mackenzie's decision to follow up on a mysterious note he finds in his mailbox, apparently left there by God.
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.
Accustomed as I am to the mendacities of politicians, even I am now faintly staggered that at the very same time as Baron Mandelson was trying to dismiss my book as fiction, he was furtively rushing together his own «memoir» which confirms by repetition several of the episodes first revealed in The End of the Party.
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.
Teleportation, cloaks of invisibility, smell - o - vision, 3D printing, and even holograms, were all ideas first imagined in science fiction — and now are real products and technologies in various stages of development by scientists.
A Voyage to the Moon — a satirical account of a space voyage, often cited as the first science fiction story — was written by the real Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649, just 40 years after Galileo's first telescopic observations of the moon.
The U.S. Navy turned science fiction into reality over the summer by deploying its first laser beam weapon on the USS Ponce, a transport ship.
Cory Doctorow, a writer and intellectual property activist, has released the text of his first science - fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, under a new license that goes by the somewhat awkward name «Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike.»
Another Science Fiction By Megan Prelinger (Blast Books) The first footprint on the moon will be a wing tip.
After reviewing over a dozen design submissions, a committee made up of senior Mars Society staff selected a poster created by Bill Wright, a freelance science fiction illustrator, as the first place... Read More
The first book in Rick Riordans new This is an adult fiction blog, written by a genuine Dating Divorcee who loves to write adult fiction.
(This is not the first time that Denis has created a fiction narrative by working from a philosopher's work — her 2006 L'Intrus was inspired by an essay by Jean - Luc Nancy.)
Ainʼt Them Bodies Saints, David Lowery — USA (IFC Films) Brothers Hypnotic, Reuben Atlas — Netherlands / USA Casting By, Tom Donahue — USA (HBO Films) Concussion, Stacie Passon — USA (RADiUS - TWC) The Crash Reel, Lucy Walker — USA (HBO Films) Crystal Fairy, Sebastián Silva — Chile (IFC Films) Europa Report, Sebastián Cordero — USA (Magnolia Pictures / Magnet Releasing)-- US PREMIERE First Cousin Once Removed, Alan Berliner — USA (HBO Films) Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, Sophie Huber — Switzerland In a World..., Lake Bell — USA (Roadside Attractions) Our Nixon, Penny Lane — USA (Cinedigm) Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton (This is Stones Throw Records), Jeff Broadway — USA — WORLD PREMIERE Short Term 12, Destin Daniel Cretton — USA (Cinedigm) The Spectacular Now, James Ponsoldt — USA (A24) Venus Vs., Ava DuVernay — USA (ESPN)-- WORLD PREMIERE
If a science - fiction historical epic starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Justin Kurzel isn't something worth watching, then everyone had better just give up trying to adapt games into films in the first place.
But since he was first introduced in 1958 by author Michael Bond, Paddington has been eclipsed by other anthropomorphic bears in fiction:
Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 film, and was the first film directed by the iconic Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained).
This first viral video shot by astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon)-- for Ridley Scott's science fiction action adventure — introduces us to crew of the Hermes as they head to the red planet.
And perhaps most impressive is that Stallone fused reality with fiction to create a miraculous comeback that only seems to happen in the realm of movies — resurrecting Rocky Balboa thirty years after our first introduction to him, followed by a return of John Rambo twenty years after last seen on film.
Eligibility: Filmmakers must be in picture edit on a fiction feature film; by the start date of the residency, filmmakers must have completed a first cut but still have significant time allotted in the schedule before picture lock.
Disney IMAX Films: Aliens of the Deep • Ghosts of the Abyss • Sacred Planet • The Young Black Stallion Produced by Frank Marshall: Who Framed Roger Rabbit • Eight Below • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Space in Science Fiction: The Black Hole • 2001: A Space Odyssey • First Spaceship on Venus (MST3K) Featuring Paul Newman (Roving Mars» Introductory Narrator): The Hustler: Collector's Edition • Cars • The Verdict: Collector's Edition New to DVD: Voyagers!
Cinema Eye presented its first Nonfiction Short Film award (it went to The Poodle Trainer by Vance Malone) and the first Heterodox Award, recognizing fiction films which imaginatively incorporate nonfiction strategies, content and / or modes of production.
Directors must be in picture edit on a fiction feature film and must have completed at least a first cut by the start date of the lab.
Adapted from the first novel written by Michael Crichton under his real name, The Andromeda Strain combined the technology of science fiction with 1970s paranoia into a compelling, but occasionally slow - paced film directed by Robert Wise.
The celebrated filmmaker first read «Silence» — a novel of historical fiction by the Japanese Christian novelist Shusaku Endo — in 1989,
Perhaps neither was quite suited for this material as Berg's skill with non-fiction doesn't translate to her first narrative film and Holofcener's gifts with character are smothered by the twisting and turning requirements of airport bookstore thriller fiction.
An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn't the first mash - up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild West and Back to the Future Part III are other examples), but it is one of the first in a popular burgeoning trend in mixing genres that has seen books like «Pride and Prejudice & Zombies» become popular.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.
As often happens, documentary tendencies ran through some of the festival's best fictions, notably The Florida Project by Sean Baker (whose previous film was the astonishing Tangerine) and The Rider by Chloé Zhao: the first an excursion into the candy - colored stucco dilapidation of the residence motels and junk shops clustered a few streets away from Disney World, the second a trip into the ranches and rodeo arenas of South Dakota's High Plains.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 science fiction film directed by Nicholas Webster that regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made and in the «bottom 100» list on the IMDB, and also marks the first documented appearance of Mrs. Claus in a motion picture.
It's based on a popular 1920s science fiction novel by the now forgotten Sydney Fowler Wright and can claim the title as the first disaster movie.
In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.
The first disc also houses a pair of feature - length commentary tracks, the second of which, from filmmaker Roger Avary (one half the team that wrote Pulp Fiction and director of the underestimated Rules of Attraction), is disposable fanboy fare indicated by a lot of fawning and reverential silence.
X-Men First Class 2 Genre: Action / Science - Fiction / Superhero Directed by: Matthew Vaughn Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender Release Date: TBA 2014
You may watch below the first official trailer of The Recall, the upcoming action science - fiction movie directed by Mauro Borrelli and starring Wesley Snipes, RJ Mitte, Jedidiah Goodacre, Niko Pepaj, Laura Maria Bilgeri, and Hannah Rose May:
• James Cameron's science fiction film «Avatar» (his first feature film since «Titanic») set to be released in December 2009, is described by the director as «an old - fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience.»
Go, the new movie written by first - timer John August and directed by DougLiman (Swingers) is the best Pulp Fiction rip - off in a long time.
But by and large, this sequel feels like bad fan fiction come to life, adopting a superficial similarity to what it is imitating, but at every step of the way betraying a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the first tick.
His first book, Pulp Fiction: The Complete Story of Quentin Tarantino's Masterpiece, was published last fall by Voyageur Press.
Isiah Medina enters the mix in the Best Director category for 88:88, his incendiary experimental film, while Sofia Bohdanowicz's Never Eat Alone, a docu - fiction portrait of an elderly matriarch played by the director's own grandmother, is up against Werewolf and Hello Destroyer for Best First Film by a Canadian Director.
Paul Revere, American Patriot Submitted by Steven Vetter Students learn about Paul Revere by examining first - person accounts, works of historical fiction, a popular narrative poem, and other resources.
My first book (non-fiction memoir) was signed by a mid sized publisher, and then I wrote my first fiction.
Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.
The novel was a semifinalist in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, the spring 2013 winner of the ForeWord Firsts contest sponsored by ForeWord Reviews, and was just named a literary fiction category semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Review's 2014 Kindle Book Awards.