Sentences with phrase «from science fiction»

It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but some boats have been designed to run entirely on solar panels and accessories.

He heads to a strange, white - and - black ship parked in the corner, one that looks like a giant prop from a science fiction movie.

The problem is, we don't get a whole lot of leading men nominated from a science fiction film.

Now there is a new competitor to the surgical field, pulled straight from science fiction novels.

During its nascent stages in the 1970s, it was an idea straight from science fiction.

The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense.

Here, blown - up, explored as individual concepts, the abstract images appear as near - figurative characters from a science fiction story, composed of brightly colored forms.

He speaks like he's reading from a science fiction novel, but then is unbelievably determined to turn that vision into reality.

The series is based on short stories from the science fiction author.

She references imagery from science fiction cinema, satellite, and nature photography.

Media coverage of AI relies heavily on fearful tropes from science fiction.

As automation in the workplace moves rapidly from science fiction to business fact, we believe the changes it will bring are more nuanced than a simple choice between human and robot.

It might sound like something from a science fiction plot — astronauts traveling into deep space being bombarded by cosmic rays — but radiation exposure is science fact.

Later, after completing doctoral work in biochemistry, he turned from science fiction to science fact.

The third act embraces the virtual reality aspect entirely, and changes from a science fiction film to a horror film.

Their forms resemble our technological objects and fantasies, and imagery from science fiction.

THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY * April 28 - June 23 * Curated by Susanne Ghez * William Popet's first solo exhibition in Chicago since moving to the city takes its title from science fiction writer Gene...

Her collages are constructed using fragments from fashion and travel magazines, pornography, African art books, automotive schematics, and images drawn from science fiction as well as hand - drawn or painted elements which create a variety of new formations of the body.

A quote from science fiction editor Lou Anders in the January issue of Locus Magazine probably said it best.

Titles in today's discounts include everything from science fiction works, romance novels, mysteries and more to suit just about any type of reader.

It's not clear whether tron takes its name directly from the science fiction movie, but its 10 - year projected development timeline on its website has heavy references to «Star Trek.»

Science differs from science fiction in a crucial, marvelous way.

Being also the father of Star Fox, Miyamoto took much of his inspiration from science fiction films and television shows that were popular among children his age.

This had long been rumoured to be under development by the Edmonton team and has been rumoured to be comparable to Destiny and The Division so I'm curious to find out what else we can learn soon as the trailer doesn't reveal much yet apart from its science fiction themes.

The Turner Prize nominee has filled the galleries with animated sculptures of characters from previous works, which take as much influence from science fiction as they do Shakespearean feasts and Situationist follies.

Robert Orchardson's work draws on a range of sources from modernist architecture and futuristic design, including utopian manifestos, stage sets and details from science fiction films.

The artist composed the film of archival footage material — interspersing found footage, clips from science fiction films, diplomatic training films, reportage shots, airline promotional films, home video and reconstituted scenes.

The show appropriates its title from a science fiction television series in the UK of the same name.

For NOAA, a national science agency, separating science from science fiction about the Pacific garbage patch (and other «garbage patches») is important when answering people's questions about what it is and how we should deal with the problem.

Such a catastrophe «is no longer just an idea from science fiction,» says Yale University astronomer David Rabinowitz.

The decade that followed Gagarin's pioneering foray above the atmosphere seemed to validate all the promises of space travel I had gleaned from science fiction.

Similarly, the concept of using geoengineering to respond to climate change has moved from science fiction to an area of serious research.

CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, draws more than 180,000 people and 4,000 companies, all of whom are eager to know: Will this be the year [fill - in - the - blank technology] finally makes the leap from science fiction to something people can buy, and might actually want to?

Mackey, a voracious reader, often has seven or eight books going at a time spanning from science fiction to economic theory.

This is not a scene from a science fiction movie, but rather the rendition of a test at the Institute for Flight System Dynamics of the Technische Universität München (TUM).

That may seem like an explanation from a science fiction novel (and it does in fact resemble the principle of invisibility set out in H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man), but it emerges naturally in the higher - dimensional mathematics of string theory.

Cloaking jumped from science fiction to science in 2006, when theorists predicted that light could be funneled around an object to make it undetectable.

Before re-entering Space Shuttle Atlantis» airlock at the end of the final and gruelling servicing mission, he recalled a quote from science fiction legend, Arthur C Clarke.

Shapeshifters from Science Fiction to Science Fact: Globetrotting from Titan's Rugged Cliffs to its Deep Seafloors

I've only seen a portion of it but it's called World's Between Us which addresses your question I think from a science fiction standpoint.

LA JOLLA — The ability to switch out one gene for another in a line of living stem cells has only crossed from science fiction to reality within this decade.

On this same note, the outside force fiddling with the imprinting technology actually starts to take the series where it could fully go, from a science fiction angle.

Here are the 10 awesomest lines of unintentionally funny dialogue from science fiction and fantasy movies and television.

But the show's weird obsession with trying to glean laughs from science fiction gay panic somehow goes beyond that.

One of my favorite lines from a science fiction film pops up early in «The Martian,» as stranded astronaut Mark Watney tries to solve one of many daunting obstacles to survival on the red planet.

Embassytown is yet another masterpiece from the science fiction visionary China Mieville.