Sentences with phrase «good science fiction novel»

As you can tell, this isn't a documentary - type VR experience, but really something that plays more like a good science fiction novel.

Boneshaker also won the PNBA Award, as well as the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

It's often been voted one of the 50 best science fiction novels of all time — and I love this explanation of the book's title.

Phoenix Publishing offers one free eBook each month in a variety of eBook formats, including the Kindle; I've picked up a couple of really good science fiction novels from them for free that they simultaneously have for sale in the Amazon Kindle store for prices up to $ 9.99.

Not exact matches

Now translated into English, Liu Cixin's The Three - Body Problem won the 2015 Hugo Award for best science - fiction novel and is in the process of being made into a Hollywood movie.

This year the list includes a science fiction novel in which the moon blows up as well as books by a mathematician and a biochemist.

Mormons are good people in general, but that does not exclude their belief is based on a «science - fiction novel» (the Book of Mormon) as well as Muslims who based their belief on a «poetry book» (the Quran).

Despite being the most influential science writer in the world, Asimov is best known for his fiction, particularly his «Foundation» novels, written during the 1950s, and his novels about «positronic robots».

I think James Gunn, the author of the 1972 science fiction novel «The Listeners» about radio astronomy and the search for other life in the universe, said it well: «It may be that there is no one out there or if there is someone out there he will never speak to us or we to him, but our listening is an act of faith akin to living itself.

I also enjoy a good crime mystery, as well as an obtimistic science fiction novel.

And those novels, just like novels in genres like science fiction and mystery, share common elements but vary in quality, depending on how well they're written.

His appearance in the 2006 film, A Scanner Darkly, based on the dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, received favorable reviews, and The Lake House, his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, did not do well at the box office.

In adapting HG Wells's science fiction novel about a renegade scientist who creates an island of monsters, Hutchinson would be working with one of his great acting idols, as well as the acclaimed director John Frankenheimer.

Director Steven Spielberg still has several projects on his dance card, including «Ready Player One,» a big - screen adaptation of a best - selling science - fiction novel, and a drama about the Pentagon Papers with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep.

Coming off of the disastrous critical and box office reception to Showgirls in 1995, director Paul Verhoeven decided to return to the science fiction genre he was best known for, adapting Robert Heinlein's much - revered, juvenile - oriented novel «Starship Troopers.»

Based on a popular graphic novel by Marasume Shirow and directed by Rupert Sanders («Snow White and the Huntsman»), Ghost in the Shell is a visually stunning experience with a fine core performance by Scarlett Johansson («Captain America: Civil War»), but it borrows so much of other, mostly better science fiction films and TV series, that charges of grand larceny should be levied against writers William Wheeler («Queen of Katwe»), Ehren Kruger («Transformers: Age of Extinction») and Jamie Moss («Street Kings»).

(With Storm Reid, Oprah, and Mindy Kaling in starring roles, Ava DuVernay's forthcoming adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time promises to add some black and brown heroines to the science - fiction canon as well.)

That quote from a William Gibson science fiction novel is used widely in Silicon Valley to describe the technology landscape, but it applies to segregation as well.

In 1999, a good friend of mine who I'd loaned a science fiction novel to commented that he expected that in 10 years we'd be walking around with electrodes in our heads, fully immersed in a William Gibson - style cyberspace.

This Must Read Science Fiction novel might be a good choice if you've read and loved the following books:

Original adaptations of George R.R. Martin's short story, «Meathouse Man,» and Hugh Howey's best - selling science fiction novel, Wool, will follow in October.

On the 22nd of June, Once Humans became available for purchasing and more than 750 readers bought the novel at its full price of $ 4.99 during the first month, and I stayed for a few months in the Top Best Sellers 100 Science Fiction Authors in Amazon.

Ernest Cline New York Times Bestseller Amazon Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011 Barnes & Noble # 1 Best Sci - Fi Novel 2011 Entertainment Weekly's # 9 Best Novel 2011 Hudson Booksellers # 1 Best Fiction 2011 Apple Best Science Fiction / Fantasy Book 2011

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I knew Michel was well versed in science fiction — his novel Under the Skin has SF elements as well — so this wasn't very surprising.

Sawyer, the author of twenty - three novels and two story collections, is one of only eight writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world's top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the... Continue reading Episode 004 — Optimizing Your Author Brand with Robert J. Sawyer

well - crafted science fiction or fantasy novel is a passport to another world.

T. C. Southwell has written over thirty fantasy and science fiction novels, as well as five screenplays.

Virtual Death was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and was named by the Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the best novels of the year.

The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away... Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.

The acclaimed author is considered the father of science fiction and wrote many novels, some of the most well - known being Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, and, of course, Around the World in Eighty Days which plays an important part in Matthew Goodman's Eighty Days.

In her 35th novel, best - selling science fiction and fantasy author Tepper brings back two of her favorite characters for another adventure.

If your teen prefers short stories to novels, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, edited by Jane...

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Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger, as well as the coeditor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of young adult novels like Homeland, Pirate Cinema, and Little Brother and novels for adults including Rapture of the Nerds and Makers.

If your teen prefers short stories to novels, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, edited by Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielson Hayden, offers a range of excellent choices culled from stories published in 2004.

Chris is the best selling author of 5,000 Words Per Hour, Write to Market, and numerous science fiction, fantasy, and thriller novels.

Today, we interviewed Joseph R. Lallo, author of the epic fantasy Book of Deacon series, as well as steampunk, science fiction, and super hero novels.

This is Leckie's follow - up to Ancillary Justice, the novel that won just about every major science fiction fantasy award in the last year — the Hugo, the Nebula, the Clarke and more — and established Leckie as one of the best new voices in the genre (and also made me look super smart for blurbing the book).

For the record, I am not an «aspiring» author — I have a 150K word science fiction novel (not romance, as the author incorrectly insinuates by my inclusion in this article) available for purchase on every major online retail site, one which has sold multiple thousands of copies and resulted in enough income that we are now consulting with a tax accountant to determine the best way to structure our finances going forward.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 worNovel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 wornovel of about 74,000 words...

Hugo Awards (for science fiction) Best Novel Nominations as listed in Amazon's Omnivoracious Blog:

Winner of the prestigious national book award, the RITA ®, as well as the PRISM, PEARL, and SAPPHIRE, author Linnea Sinclair is a name synonymous with high - action, emotionally intense, character - driven science fiction romance novels.

He was nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel for A. I. Apocalypse, won Foreword Reviews» Science Fiction Book of the Year in 2011 for Avogadro Corp, and won Independent Publisher's 2014 IPPY Bronze medal in science fiction for The Last FiScience Fiction Book of the Year in 2011 for Avogadro Corp, and won Independent Publisher's 2014 IPPY Bronze medal in science fiction for The Last FiFiction Book of the Year in 2011 for Avogadro Corp, and won Independent Publisher's 2014 IPPY Bronze medal in science fiction for The Last Fiscience fiction for The Last Fifiction for The Last Firewall.

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Neil Gaiman is famous for his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as his short stories, comics, graphic novels, radio - plays, and screenplays.

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Having said that, she was faced with the challenge of producing a cover that conveyed the gritty sinister feel of a classic crime noir novel with a hint the book was a science fiction story as well.

Kevin's move from writing science fiction and into thrillers and how that led to his best - selling and award - winning novel