Sentences with phrase «pulp sci»

Currently in closed beta Raiders of the Broken Planet takes a pulp sci - fi approach melding comic book visuals with an intense narrative that involves various factions fighting for an mythical power source.

Impostor is pulp sci - fi at its most forgettable.

Set in a militaristic alternate present enabled by reverse - engineered alien technology, Emmerich's follow - up to his 1996 signature hit is much more of a pulp sci - fi movie than the original, complete with dashing space pilots, psychic African warlords, and moon bases.

 Once Bulletstorm is released it will ship with three game modes: the pulp sci - fi, single - player campaign;  Anarchy multiplayer mode; and Echo mode, a unique experience that tracks and compares playersâ $ ™ scores while they play through locations found in the campaign.

I really like this movie, it's a guilty pleasure to enjoy every pulp sci - fi cliche thrown at you.

A Wiki's worth of pop - culture references stitched together by the most derivative of plots, Ernest Cline's 2011 pulp sci - fi novel, Ready Player One, had many readers but substantially fewer devotees.

Not exact matches

Collaborating with author Lawrence Wright, on whose 2013 book this documentary is based, director Alex Gibney follows a chronology of the church, beginning with Hubbard's origins as sci - fi pulp writer and world traveler, his development of Dianetics in the 1950s, and how his ostensible breakthrough in modern mental health slowly, and by design, metastasized into the legally protected, tax - exempt religion that exists today.

We're paying tribute to classic sci - fi and horror short stories by making a selection of them available to read online — then, on Sunday, April 15, we'll gather to discuss these stories, book - club style, accompanied by food and drinks inspired by the pulp era.

A breathlessly efficient B - movie of choreographed momentum and comic - book - panel compositions, The Terminator showed sci - fi could be as brutal and lean as the starkest pulp; Schwarzenegger's angular physique would never be put to more perfect use.

The first major movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs» highly influential sci - fi pulp saga, it comes complete with sky - high action sequences, swashbuckling fight scenes and computer - generated creatures that your kids will either find awesome or disturbing.

My editing career began at the New Pulp fiction publisher Pro Se Productions, where I continue to copyedit short stories and novels in the sci - fi / fantasy and pulp genPulp fiction publisher Pro Se Productions, where I continue to copyedit short stories and novels in the sci - fi / fantasy and pulp genpulp genres.

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Certainly the onset of sci - fi short story pulps bridged the gap from comic book to epic novels.

I'm not certain what Rocksteady's obsession with placing this relatively grounded, pulp detective icon in to a massive Sci - Fi epic of world - ending proportions is but it doesn't work and never has.

So, with that in mind, it was easy to derive his dimension - hopping detective, Dirk Davies, who in my view was a pulp / sci - fi version of Ben McCool.

Come see a rare and comprehensive collection of Sci - Fi Pulp magazines, paperbacks, and hardcover books displayed on the Back Room Gallery walls.

Today feels like a good day to revisit the work of Wally Wood, king of retro sci - fi pulp comic illustrations.

A star almost straight out of art school, and a Turner Prize nominee (2001), Nelson's vision is a complex interplay between an imagined narrative and its physical installation, often inspired by literature, sci - fi or pulp fiction (J.L. Borges to H.P. Lovecraft), in which he invents characters and then creates their environments.