Sentences with phrase «first science fiction»

Hijacking a phrase from The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard's first science fiction novel and one of his London - based dystopic tales, Walled Gardens in an Insane Eden portrays the world we live in today: on the precipice but hopeful for a less fragile future.

Traveller itself was to immediately spawn successors, most notably Fantasy Games Unlimited's Space Opera (pictured above), which shares with its predecessor a sprawling character generation system that was a game in itself (I too was influenced by this in my first science fiction RPG design, Outlands, which had its definitive edition in 1995, and the cover to Wikipedia Knows Nothing is also a tribute to the minimalist cover of Marc Miller's game).

Rob Dirks self - published his first science fiction novel, Where the Hell is Tesla?

I just self - published my first science fiction novel, Exodus.

As the first science fiction magazine on the market, Amazing Stories served as a proving ground for many writers who would later become luminaries in the...

Redwood: Battle Cry marks the conclusion to my first science fiction series.

Maybe part of the reason this resonates so much with me is I'm about to finish my first science fiction novel.

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Here's a webinar version of the talk: https://youtu.be/HrhmqBDzdtU About eight years ago I went to Eastercon, my first science fiction convention.

one of the first science fiction paperbacks I ever bought, at a library sale on Rockcliffe Airbase in 1978.

The timing of this column is significant to me because ten years ago yesterday — January 12, 2007 — I sat down to write what would become my first science fiction novel.

Thirty years after the events of the first science fiction film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long - buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos.

A new restoration of Geoff Murphy's apocalyptic The Quiet Earth (1985), the first science fiction movie from New Zealand, plays through the week at Grand Illusion.

But we know he'll blow audiences away with his first science fiction picture.

Wong is currently completing his latest film entitled 2046, his first science fiction film to date.

Butler Mons honours Octavia E. Butler, the first science fiction writer to win a MacArthur fellowship, and whose Xenogenesis trilogy describes humankind's departure from Earth and subsequent return.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«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..

The first «Star Wars» movie established one of the most popular franchises of all time and took science fiction movies mainstream again.

As the brainchild of Musk, who first announced the idea in 2012, it's a concept straight out of science fiction and has been deemed the «fifth mode of transportation.»

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.

It might not be a work of total fiction, but this wouldn't be the first time the church has tried to suppress science in favor or perserving the religion.

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.

Bradbury looks back with pleasure on his history with colleagues like science - fiction great Robert Heinlein, who mentored him and helped him sell his first story.

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.

Therefore almost all science fiction stories were, and continue to be, first drafts simply because of the amount of money involved.

First of all, Daily Science Fiction posted a new post-apocalyptic story of mine.

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

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.

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

When Peter Delfyett (pictured left) was in the first grade, his father took him to see the science fiction movie Journey to the Beginning of Time, a story about four boys who traveled back to the age of dinosaurs.

November 23, 1963 the first episode of the British science - fiction television programme «Doctor Who *» was broadcast.

A SCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.orSCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.orScience, doi.org/h8h).

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.

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

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Stephen Hawking publishes children's book Stephen Hawking, wheelchair - bound physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, this week published his first children's book in an expected trilogy, designed, he told reporters, to make «real science as exciting as science fiction.»

Ruelle described the results of this research in a paper «Deterministic chaos: The science and fiction», which he delivered to the first conference on chaos in Australia.

He enjoyed them all, but writes: «But my first and greatest science fiction love remained Asimov.»

«The kinds of things that once existed only in the realm of science fiction movies like Inception and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are now experimentally possible,» says Steve Ramirez, a graduate student in the lab of HHMI investigator Susumu Tonegawa and first author of the new work.

Many science - fiction writers have proposed life - forms that use alternate elemental building blocks, often silicon instead of carbon, but this marks the first known case in a real organism.

While this superbeam isn't quite as «super» as the one depicted in science fiction, it stands as an important achievement — for the first time, nine of the National Ignition Facility's (NIF) 192 laser beams were combined to produce a directed pulse of light that was nearly four times the energy of any of the individual beams.

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.

Now, Stanford is using NASA's vast video archives to venture into the realm of science fiction, and we've got the first look at his latest space - age music video.

The European Space Agency's first foray into science fiction, in the form of a short film entitled Ambition that promotes the Rosetta mission, may herald a new way in which science outreach can be conducted.