Sentences with phrase «into dystopian fiction»

This was one of the most surprising books of the year, though Erdrich's first foray into dystopian fiction included many of the hallmarks that her fans expect: a social and political conscience, and characters of tremendous depth.

Not exact matches

Or as Davis put it, Britain will not be «plunged into a Mad Max - style world borrowed from dystopian fiction» after it leaves the European Union.

James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have branded comments by Brexit Secretary David Davis that the UK won't be «plunged into a Mad Max - style world borrowed from dystopian fiction» after Brexit absurd.

After Danny Boyle filmed an adaptation of the book (released in 2000), Garland transitioned into screenwriting, with a proclivity for dystopian science fiction.

It's a story with eerie echoes of science - fiction novels like J.G. Ballard's «The Crystal World» and Stephen King's «Under the Dome,» though I confess that an early shot of a meteor crashing into a lighthouse put me briefly in mind of a dystopian Nicholas Sparks.

The new science fiction action film from Bong Joon - ho («The Host,» «Mother») defies the odds by turning yet another dystopian future into something thrilling and distinctive.

I think the reason I decided to write dystopian fiction for my first novel, is nothing more than the story I wanted to tell fits into that category better than others.

Only available for sale until September 2013 — then THE KEEPER will go into an anthology of dystopian short fiction.

Part techno thriller, part literary science fiction, Life is a Beautiful Thing is a series that questions what it means to be human, a book that offers a shocking glimpse into a dystopian future fueled by corporate deceit, bawdy sex and high - end intoxicants.

We all know about misery memoir, chick - lit, sick lit, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, dystopian romance, nostalgia fiction, new adult, adult, space opera etc etc and that amorphous beast we just call «literature», into which falls any book we like but we can't really pair with an obvious partner.

Beloufa overlaid the audio with tonal sounds and inserted images of a tall watchtower beaming light into the night sky between scenes, underscoring the dystopian science - fiction quality of the film.

A wide - ranging survey exhibition, it brings together contemporary artists from across the Americas who have tapped into science fiction's capacity to imagine new realities, both utopian and dystopian.

The Contemporary Art Gallery presents Medium - Based Time by Berlin - based Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw, featuring a black and white 16 mm film of transgender voguer Leiomy Maldonado, an HD video installation that reworks archival ethnographic film into a dystopian science fiction narrative,

If Twitter was around at the time George Orwell was writing the dystopian fiction Nineteen Eighty - Four, I wonder whether he might have borrowed some text from Schmidt's tweets, particularly when words like, «procedures correct» refer to mathematical algorithms reaching out to «nearby» locations that are across the Coral Sea and beyond the Great Dividing Range to change what was a mild cooling - trend, into dramatic warming, for an otherwise perfectly politically - incorrect temperature series.

The filmmaker has specialized in reinventing the familiar, with his films Brick, Brothers Bloom, and Looper breathing new life into film noir, madcap capers, and dystopian time - travel science fiction.