Sentences with phrase «out of a science fiction novel»

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This is a great theme that uses their signature «Scalpel» icon - set (named for its sharpness), is fast and sleek in its design and, as they advertise, is straight out of a science fiction novel.

The diverse body of paintings includes cool - toned studies of lush flora, complemented by fiery views of banana leaf trees, and a sleek spaceship - like heater that conjures some otherworldly landscape out of a science fiction novel.

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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.

Cf. the comment of Ransom, Lewis's protagonist in his science - fiction novel, Out of the Silent Planet (New York: Macmillan, 1965), p. 32:» «Space» [was] a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they - swam....

For example, in his science - fiction novel, Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis wrote of Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philologist who is kidnapped and taken to another planet.

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.»

That may seem like an explanation from a science fiction novel (and it does in fact resemble the principle of invisibility set out in H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man), but it emerges naturally in the higher - dimensional mathematics of string theory.

Podcast Transcript: It sounds like something out of a bad science fiction novel.

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.

«The idea that we could spot a glow seems to be right out of a [science fiction] novel,» admits Kaltenegger.

The adaptation of Orson Scott Card's beloved science fiction novel Ender's Game hit theatres on Friday, and while it's not looking like a break - out hit, it did not embarrass itself either.

My publisher and I are releasing a new anthology in July, I have a novella coming out after that, and I am writing the first draft of a science fiction novel.

My mom had some pretty steamy romance novels kicking around, and I read plenty of those when I ran out of science fiction and fantasy and horror.

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...

His debut novel, THE LAST WAR, is out in July from Tickety Boo Press and is the first in a science - fiction trilogy following the aliens of the Noukari.

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The science fiction would be really difficult to rip out since the novel is about shipbreaking of spaceships and the hero carries 50 % proprietary DNA (which forces him into the story).

Review: Howey's first novel is fast - paced, combining elements of military science fiction, space opera, and even romance, to flesh out his story of a young girl becoming a woman.

The new Tate Modern installation involves a gigantic replica of a Louise Bourgeois spider, rows of bleak metal bunk beds with paperback science fiction novels laid out on them, and a screen showing a montage of disaster and apocalyptic footage.

Before that I had read science fiction novels and seen a couple of movies that predicted warming and melting... But anyway, after the cooling hypothesis came out (it certainly wasn't impossible given that ice ages were cyclic), I decided to naively think up a mitigation strategy.

«Earth Abides» came out in 1949, and it was post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Berkeley professor George Stewart — the story opens» as the protagonist Isherwood Williams returns from a trip into the California mountains and learns that civilization is crumbling after a plague has wiped out most of Earth's population»... 1949!

I lost count of how many mistakes are in IPCC4, suffice to say, it's way too many and the more they find the more I have the impression this is not a scientific document, it's more like a Science Fiction Novel designed to scare the hell out of everyone so we'll all start paying carbon taxes to save the earth.