Sentences with phrase «less science fiction»

Uber and Google, along with big car companies like Ford, are doing their best to make self - driving cars less science fiction and more science fact.

The result is less science fiction than a metaphor drawn from it: a peculiar family portrait whose characters, though all lost in their own space, never stray far from their immediate earthbound environs (except in flights of fancy).

At the very least try to come up with something a little more scientific and less Science fiction.

Disregard the inherent silliness such a premise could conjure to find a tale of intergalactic manifest destiny and cabin fever madness that transcends the likes of lesser science fiction fare.

Not exact matches

Now that the idea of receiving goods via drone has settled into our collective consciousness, it's starting to seem far less like a science fiction movie.

The movies rarely win critical accolades, much less Oscar nominations, and to date, no science fiction movie has ever gone home with the statuette.

But his less - known work, a trilogy of science fiction novels, contains some of his most profound, thrilling and decidedly adult notions of the universe we live in, the reality - shifting nature of grace and the Creator who rules over it all.

A less sophisticated illustration of this can be seen in the way that science fiction has envisioned various atheistic scientific futures: over the course of the past century such visions of the future have shifted from being utopias to being dystopias.

There's a version of Annihilation that's all killer, no filler — just hardcore women fighting mutated monsters — but that would make for a more fleeting and less essential science fiction.

that's all killer, no filler — just hardcore women fighting mutated monsters — but that would make for a more fleeting and less essential science fiction.

There is a lot in the genres of high fantasy and, to a lesser extent, science fiction.

ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.

WORLD building is at the heart of great science fiction, but it can be tricky at less than book length.

Many a lesser writer would have pared down «The Coming of Vertumnus», the 50 - page title story of Ian Watson's new science fiction collection, to make it more acceptable to editors.

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It may not contain any elements of «hard science - fiction» but it is no less a science - fiction films than the classic films I mentioned in my review.

Together they've made «Insurgent» into less of a youthful romance and more of an action - heavy science fiction story, the kind of rat - a-tat tale that used to star grown - ups before teens ruled the box office.

This average science fiction film will please less - sophisticated viewers.

Annihilation is a demented science - fiction comic book of a movie that makes less sense than a butterfly mating with a buffalo.

Though the movie is the most explicitly «noir» of all the Coens» pictures, its look more closely resembles that of science fiction movies of the 1950s — a fact that makes its peculiar UFO subplot a touch less incongruous.

In the realm of science - fiction, exploring our own socio - political environment through the lens of a foreign or futuristic society is commonplace; however, exploring merely human nature and philosophical questions of life is less common, at least as a stand - alone theme.

A watered - down and considerably less meaningful iteration of the 2002 Steven Spielberg science - fiction movie

But Solaris is less a science - fiction film than it is an existentialist melodrama that, by winnowing itself down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsky's trance - like adaptation), locates the core issues of identity and love that plague the dark hours.

However, this one is less indicative of his «early, funny ones,» feeling like pretentious science fiction as if Stillman wanted to make a more old - fashioned, sophisticated «Heathers,» «Clueless,» or «Mean Girls» mixed with Noah Baumbach's 1995 pre-mumblecore debut «Kicking and Screaming.»

In the summer blockbuster season, After Earth is a quieter, less frantically paced science fiction alternative to Star Trek Into Darkness.

Disregarding its overly explanatory director's cut, Richard Kelly's debut is less of a straight science - fiction film than a metaphysical meditation on teenage alienation, on that feeling like neither you nor anything you do matters.

Writer - director Jeff Nichols is earning well - deserved praise for his fall release Loving, but less attention was paid to this highly original science - fiction thriller — because it's so difficult to categorize.

Anderson's dazzling feature is also, notoriously, a thinly veiled portrait of the birth of Z - grade science - fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard's celebrity - endorsed religion, though less barbed than you might expect.

I was looking to capture the sensation of speed that a fast engine sound in a «regular» racing game creates and transfer this to a science fiction context where the sound design would be less believable if the vehicle sounded too similar to a car.

But it's no less urgent to nurture talented authors working in genres like fantasy and science fiction.

The best science - fiction series I have ever read that utilizes the idea of changing seasons is Doris Lessing's The Sirian Experiments, which won the Man Booker Prize in 1981.

Genre fiction books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be sold for less — less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult books (younger audience, smaller wallets).

It's old news that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have raised the payment rate for its qualifying markets (e.g., the markets it considers «professional»), but that day of reckoning is now less than a month away.

In some genres (especially high - volume «pulp» genres like romance, science fiction, fantasy, and, to a lesser extent, mysteries), readers often expect anything shorter than a full - length book (fifty thousand or more words) to be priced $ 0.99, while full length pieces are generally priced $ 2.99 — $ 4.99.

Because it's the same genre, there's really a difference... Margaret Atwood writes science fiction and so does Doris Lessing.

So much American science fiction is parochial — not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology.

Arthur Less has been here for three days; he is in New York to interview famous science fiction author H. H. H. Mandern onstage to celebrate the launch of H. H. H. Mandern's new novel; in it, he revives his wildly popular Holmesian robot, Peabody.

They also buy different ebooks in that they buy less fiction and much more non-fiction biography, business, history, political science, etc..

With incredible creativity, sharp humor, and deep empathy, Whaley creates a story that is much less about the science fiction of coming back to life and more about living life in the present.

This hefty book is less about science fiction than it is about relationships.Yes, most of the action does take place on another planet, but that is not the real focus of the book.

With incredible creativity, sharp humor, and deep empathy, John Whaley creates a story that is much less about the science fiction of coming back to life and more about living life in the present.

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I would be far more interested in seeing a list that breaks down mystery, romance, science fiction genres — but even then it could get so niche market driven that that the list becomes less meaningful to me as a reader (though we could have as much fun as this Melville House blog post in coming up with our own possible lists) So what about for you?

It's much easier to make an «image» for an algebra workbook, for example, than for a science fiction novel, and the image (just an equation, in my case) is far less important for the algebra workbook.

As you do not generally cite the figures for Science Fiction > Galactic Empire vs Science Fiction > Space Exploration there is no need to go into the sub-categories as everything there is already in the top level Science Fiction category and you have the ability to exclude results by a rank judged to mean less than one sale per day.

The first thing that needs to be addressed is that Dreadnought is nothing less than pure eye candy for any science fiction fan who loves watching huge capital ships fighting.

Rather than existing in some high fantasy world with science fiction elements to a greater or lesser degree, we play in a world that, save for monsters and a few other elements, is very like the real one.

Since then the universe has expanded over the course of nearly a dozen game releases (and a military science fiction novel) to include seven powerful Races that control major interstellar empires, as well as several less powerful Independent Races, a few Elder Races, quite a few mysterious and powerful Grand Menaces, and even a multi-level science fiction dungeon called The Pit.

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.

What is perhaps less recognised, because his art tends to be thought of as organic and carved and abstract, is that Brancusi's works disconcerted in exactly the same, science - fiction way.