Sentences with phrase «novel by fiction»
by Walter Chaw It's probably not at all surprising that lock - step director Gary Fleder's Don't Say a Word, based on a by - the - numbers novel by fiction hack Andrew Klavan (True Crime), has less original material than Michael Jackson.
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ Not exact matches
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.
Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.
Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.
His seven novels, compulsive reading for their adepts, fail all the normal tests by which one would judge the merits of a work of fiction.
By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.
Best in Fiction: Among novels that released in 2014, my favorite included All the Light We Can not See by Anthony Doerr, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and of course Lila by Marilynne Robinson (which I've only just started).
Just another fiction novel written by man that was transformed into a way of life.
These novels are, in fact, «useful fictions,» which criticize patriarchy by envisioning alternatives to its misogynist, biocidal hierarchies.
Star Maker in Last and First Men and Star Maker: Two Science - Fiction Novels By Olaf Stapledon.
The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).
Quoting verses from a 3500 year old fiction novel written by bronze age goat herders... Here's one for you: «Luke, I am your father» Vader 5:24 - 26
Anyone who is facinated by his work, or Tolkien's should look into the writings of another one of the Inklings, Charles Williams, who wrote religious texts, poetry, and fiction, including the novels WAR IN HEAVEN, ALL HALLOW»S EVE, and MANY DIMENSIONS.
And from «Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth - Century Geology by Adelene Buckland, University of Chicago Press, p. 99:
As Thomas Woodman points out: «In recent years the rise of postmodernist fiction and of such modes as «magic realism» [as exemplified most obviously by Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez] have called into question the whole privileging of realism in the novel genre.»
Girard began in the early 1960s, with such works as Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, by explaining how triangular relations form among characters in fiction.
On holiday I usually alternate between fiction - light thrillers by Dan Brown or Robert Goddard or crime novels along with some nonfi ction.
Website blacklists, storage of all your emails by intelligence services and routine monitoring of your internet connection may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or an authoritarian regime — but the truth may be stranger than fiction for Britain in 2012.
At day's end, Pereira - Smith finally quiets down by reading a science - fiction novel or spy thriller before falling asleep.
His new novel, Solar, is about climate change, and he's bored by fiction that is only about emotions.
However, researchers have stepped back to look at the bigger picture through data collected from the 2001: Mars Odyssey, named in reference to the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and found a different chemical on Mars may be key.
Cory Doctorow, a writer and intellectual property activist, has released the text of his first science - fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, under a new license that goes by the somewhat awkward name «Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike.»
Roadside Picnic By Arkady and Boris Strugatsky When the Russian Strugatsky brothers published the initial version of their dark novel Roadside Picnic in 1972, they marked the vanguard of a new approach to science fiction.
Ironically, Lewis's skepticism is inspired in part by the science fiction of Isaac Asimov, whose Foundation novels center on researchers who use advanced social science to predict the future, based on the behavior of large groups.
My science fiction novel The Rogue Retrieval — about a researcher who goes A.W.O.L. into a pristine medieval world he's been studying, and the mission to retrieve him — was published yesterday by HarperCollins.
This week, he's joined by author Andy Weir to explore the fascinating intersection of science and science fiction, delving into the biggest surprises about Mars and the Moon, and how Weir's novel, The Martian.
In my spare time, I love to garden like a granny in my little inner city tropage «tropical cottage» garden, hang out with the Blokefolk, be bossed around by the Bunny Bros, read historical fiction and zombie novels, collect retro souvenir scarves, rescue vintage English bone china from op shops, indulge my latte love and drink endless pots of tea.
About Site - American Short Fiction selects and publishes short stories, short shorts, novellas, and novel excerpts by established and super new writers.
Austin, Texas About Blog American Short Fiction selects and publishes short stories, short shorts, novellas, and novel excerpts by established and super new writers.
Of course, Kenji's gang finds their way Jasoosi Novels And Urdu Fiction (Imran Series) Action Agency By Mazhar Kaleem Black Agent By Mazhar Kaleem; Black Fighters By Mazhar Kaleem
Fifty Shades Freed, the third movie based on the best - selling novels by E.L. James, opens with a showy wedding during which the demure fiction editor Anastasia Steele and the reformed sadist Christian Grey exchange mismatched vows: apparently, he has to do a whole lot of extra comforting and protecting.
Synopsis: Based on the classic science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, «Solaris» centers on a psychologist (George Clooney) sent to investigate unexplained b...
The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel Monkey Planet, this science fiction film was the least - liked by the series» legion of fans.
A fair stab at adapting the classic novel by science fiction novelist Ray Bradbury, this is still the definitive screen version.
Plus, this emotionally grounded adaptation of the science - fiction novel by Robert O'Brien showcases complex performances by three established stars that help to compensate for some thin plotting and narrative contrivances.
It wasn't the horror or dark science fiction that many had come to know him by, but an arresting thriller that was actually based on a graphic novel.
His name has been used in the game's promotion by its developers and publisher, Microsoft, to trade both on the renown for his classic novel, Ender's Game, as well his 2006 book, Empire, which was based on the same fiction as Shadow Complex: a Right - Wing - vs.
Based on the novel by Deborah Ellis, superb animation and endearing dialogue set apart this heartbreaking piece of modern historical fiction.
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.
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.
Based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, Scott's latest science fiction film sees Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who's presumed dead and left behind by his crew on the red planet.
PULP FICTION **** / **** Image A + Sound A + Extras A + starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis written and directed by Quentin Tarantino JACKIE BROWN **** / **** Image A Sound A + Extras A starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard directed by Quentin Tarantino
Clive Barker has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.The new movie will be directed by Robert hollocks and written by Barker, Sarah - Jane Dalby, Christian Francis, Robert Hollocks, Wolf Laine, and Mark Alan Miller.
This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.
Based on a novel by Jules Verne, this science fiction story introduces audiences to a curious world where elephants are the size of small dogs and bees loom as large as single engine airplanes.
TIME AFTER TIME Picked up to series STUDIO: Outerbanks Entertainment / Warner Bros TV TEAM: Kevin Williamson (w, ep), Marcos Siega (d, ep) LOGLINE: Based on the novel by Karl Alexander and movie, it delivers a fantastical cat - and - mouse adventure through time when famed science fiction writer H.G. Wells is transported to modern - day Manhattan in pursuit of Jack the Ripper.
Adapted from the first novel written by Michael Crichton under his real name, The Andromeda Strain combined the technology of science fiction with 1970s paranoia into a compelling, but occasionally slow - paced film directed by Robert Wise.
The celebrated filmmaker first read «Silence» — a novel of historical fiction by the Japanese Christian novelist Shusaku Endo — in 1989,
An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn't the first mash - up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild West and Back to the Future Part III are other examples), but it is one of the first in a popular burgeoning trend in mixing genres that has seen books like «Pride and Prejudice & Zombies» become popular.
The Pros: Orson Scott Card «s «Ender's Game» is one of the most beloved science fiction novels around, and Summit are hoping to do for hard sci - fi what they did for vampires with «Twilight,» with this long - in - the - works adaptation, directed by «Wolverine» helmer Gavin Hood, and produced by «Star Trek» supremos Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci.