Sentences with phrase «love of the science fiction»

Guillem Anglada - Escude, is a Queen Mary University of London astronomer and lead the group that discovered Proxima b. Anglada - Escude is not shy about his love of science fiction and its influence on his own astronomical exploration.

By Hope and George Available today on demand and in your queue is Looper, the kind of movie that nourishes any underfed love of Science Fiction.

An early love of science fiction took him to the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1986, where he was the youngest attendee in the workshop's history.

Though they have different backgrounds and interests, all of the contributors to this book have one thing in common: a love of science fiction.

Indulging his lifetime love of science fiction and fantasy, he's currently illustrating a new historical role - playing game for Iron Throne Publishing and developing life - sized promotional cutouts of zombies for WorldWorks Games while also putting the finishing touches on 30 oil paintings for a summer exhibition — all proof of his incredible comfort moving between the worlds of commercial and fine art.

Their miniature fake landscapes and interiors reflect a love of science fiction and dystopian entertainment, an appreciation for great architecture, and an affinity with the Sublime painters of the Hudson River School.

Not exact matches

Regardless of your political affiliations, there's no denying that Americans love turning to science fiction for what it does best — reflecting our own world back to us.

Personally, I love science fiction and all kinds of fantasy and mythological books.

I'm not sure I would... though I'd love to have the skill to write short stories to explore the outcomes of new ideas, like the best science fiction authors.

While the science doesn't quite hold up to the standards set in fiction, I do love the idea of cloning as a multiplier of self.

Some one that likes a little mess with a lot of cuddles, who loves all history, fantasy, science fiction and expressing self in art

It was also excellent marketing that drew in all the WOMEN who love space and rockets, who devour science fiction, who flocked to all the Star Wars and Star Trek films when they were growing up, who fought hard to be part of NASA's astronaut program, and on and on.

Despite the rare occurrence of frame rate drops, and the stunted online play, Mass Effect 3: Special Edition is a love letter to video game and science fiction enthusiasts everywhere, as it does all it can to please the fans and engage newcomers to its immense and beautiful universe.

Unlike the space invaders of most science fiction, these six - foot - tall E.T.s (pejoratively nicknamed «prawns,» but more closely resembling the love child of a cockroach and the Creature From the Black Lagoon) come neither in peace nor in malice.

When Gravity came out a bit more than a year ago, a thousand science - fiction - loving bloggers leapt to their keyboards to explain why the film was a «game changer»; Boyhood doesn't have a constituency that's quite so... naturally vocal, so this post is here for the next time someone shrugs at the marvels of Boyhood.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

A supernatural depiction of love and loss that delves deep into the science fiction realm of a grander understanding, A Ghost Story was unlike any film seen this year or any other.

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.

While Wright was making «Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World,» Pegg and Frost enlisted the help of «Superbad» and «Adventureland» director Greg Mottola to help them make the science - fiction answer to the zombie film homage «Shaun of the Dead,» and the buddy cop love letter «Hot Fuzz.»

As a standalone piece, separate from the Alien franchise, this film could have met with applause from fans of somber science fiction, instead of the sneers of those who love the characters and direction as delivered through Aliens.

Leaning heavily on the same kind of pop culture references that made the early seasons of «Community» so enjoyable, «Rick and Morty» is like a vulgar love letter to science fiction, from its «Doctor Who» - inspired theme song, to its blatant similarities to «Back to the Future.»

«The World's End» is a proper climax, that's in equal parts a wry, hilarious love - letter to classic British science - fiction and a unique view on maturity and the value of moving forwards, not backwards.

Solaris is primarily recommended for those who love science fiction in its purest of forms, like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner, and especially for those who are familiar with the novel and previous film but are curious to see another take on the subject.

A few things they point out here that I particularly love: yes, some of that science fiction feel mixed in with Wakanda's traditional African aesthetics was at least partially Blade Runner - inspired, per the movie's production designer Hannah Beachler.

He loves mumblecore and the works of Terrence Malick, not to mention post-apocalyptic science - fiction.

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Curtis, who is only 56, said science - fiction project About Time felt like «a summing up» for a career which has taken in the legendary TV comedy Blackadder, writing work on 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral and 1999's Notting Hill, as well as the directing of 2003's Love Actually.

What You Need To Know: Touted as an unconventional love story that blends science fiction and romance «in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all,» director Spike Jonze is seemingly making a romance picture for the iGeneration.

Fortunately, director Spike Jonze (creator of oddball favourites Being John Malkovich and Adaptation) has made a science - fiction film that is partly a glimpse into the future of advanced computer software, a current day look at our overreliance on technology and also the unlikeliest of love stories.

Much as J.R.R. Tolkien fashioned a real world out of his love for language, Whedon has developed a frontier town feel and placed it in a science fiction setting, and it works in spades.

Many (though not all) of those voices loved the original John Carter stories long before they turned into a movie, and most of them understood the character's importance to modern science fiction.

I'm totally geeking out over «Blade Runner 2049,» one of those «you either love it or hate it» science fiction films.

I was going to record commentary for my play through of Ace Team's action - packed love letter to terrible «70s science fiction movies, but The Deadly Tower of Monsters brought its own, and it makes the game.

The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.

The first Van Helsing managed to hide this lack of overall plot the first time through, capitalizing on my love of bad sci - fi with a world that screamed «THIS IS SCIENCE FICTION» so loud its vocal cords ruptured.

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Bringing more nonfiction into students» lives will require many educators to stretch a little — from English teachers who love to inspire others through their favorite poems to science teachers accustomed to relying on textbooks to kids whose reading of choice is fiction, fiction, and more fiction.

His fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper / thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work (currently 99 cents on Amazon).

To call this science fiction is a slight misnomer, as it's a love story — just with some of the thought processes around it tying love into the greater whole of the universe (or multiverse).

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past.

I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, and I'm trying to imagine my righteous indignation if KFC published a story in one of those genres — maybe a story of invading aliens who fall in love with KFC and enslave humanity to raise and cook chickens for them 24/7.

Writing holiday - themed stories to take advantage of a holiday - loving market (possibly tougher with fantasy and science fiction)

Of course I love Steven for my science fiction and I have to give Regina at MaeIdesign.com for my New Adult cover The Only Exception.

Vera Nazarian is a two - time Nebula Award Nominee and member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a writer and reader with a penchant for moral fables and stories of intense wonder, true love, and intricacy.

In fact, it's a dream project for a guy who fell in love with comics and science fiction at the age of six and never stopped loving them.

With this kind of a design, I would certainly see a middle - aged reader of Star Trek tie - in novels to buy it more than a child... Don't get me wrong, I love the design and, although I don't read ST tie - in novels, I'm a huge science fiction reader.

In turns humorous, touching, and atmospheric, this collection of short stories by 12 prominent, popular, and up - and - coming young adult authors offers diverse tales of love and summertime in genres ranging from science fiction and fantasy to realistic fiction.

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, she is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, and Inside the O'Briens.

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, and Inside the O'Briens.

USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past they both love and study.