Sentences with phrase «science fiction author»

I know some other science fiction authors who also work hard, but they do not market themselves, they do not produce multiple streams of income.

There aren't that many published science fiction authors working at a given time.

I know of two well - respected science fiction authors, both traditionally published, who have day jobs that bring in six figures.

He's best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey — and for years he was considered one of the world's greatest science fiction authors.

When you get a letter from a legendary science fiction author, you stop and take notice.

What really strikes me about the top 10 is the absence of any new traditionally published science fiction author.

Resistance: A Hole in the Sky is being written by science fiction author William C. Dietz, the same man who wrote Resistance: The Gathering Storm, and is being published by Del - Ray Books, with the book set to release this summer.

Perhaps it's ironic that the object should arrive in a year when we celebrated the 100th anniversary (on December 16) of the birth of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

One of the writers she mentions is James Tiptree Jr., an award - winning science fiction author who turned out to be a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Son Kit is a multimedia autochthon working towards a New Canon of Korean - American Science Fiction Authored Entirely By Them.

Cusack plays best - selling science fiction author David Gordon, who has recently lost his wife and is now considering adopting a child.

Same as science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke said that Douglas Adams's use of his phrase, «Don't panic,» in his novel was perhaps the best advice that could be given to humanity.

I think some of the most successful blogs that I see from authors are usually multi-contributor blogs, where you see like five or six thriller authors or romance authors or science fiction authors get together, and that helps reduce a little bit of the burden and the pressure because you're trading off blogging responsibilities, but you're also bringing together all of the different audiences you have, and there's a lot of good cross-pollination there.

One of his major characters, Kilgore Trout, was based on fellow science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon.

By my count, half of the top 10 bestselling science fiction authors on Amazon right now are self - published or published with Amazon.

Inspired by a quote from leading science fiction author William Gibson, The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed, this edition of the Biennale, which opens in March 2016, will be presented at seven main venues conceived as «embassies of thought».

He writes that he found «half of the top 10 bestselling science fiction authors on Amazon right now are self - published or published with Amazon.»

Despite influencing science fiction authors like Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke, and even astronomers such Carl Sagan, I'd never read (or even heard of) the series prior to this adaptation.

On the 22nd of June, Once Humans became available for purchasing and more than 750 readers bought the novel at its full price of $ 4.99 during the first month, and I stayed for a few months in the Top Best Sellers 100 Science Fiction Authors in Amazon.

About Blog Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. was founded in 1965 by the American science fiction author Damon Knight.

We are working with science fiction author Ted Chiang, who will write a subtitled script in the spirit of a fable that ponders the irreducible gaps between living, nonliving, human, animal, technological, and cosmic actors.

After all, if science fiction author Neal Stephenson wrote about them in 1995 in his novel The Diamond Age, shouldn't we give credit where it is due?

A vision of this future is articulated in award - winning science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140, which takes place in a flooded Gotham.

Science fiction author Ray Bradbury, who turns 90 this month, says he will sometimes open one of his books late at night and cry out thanks to God.

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.

There is a very successful science fiction author by the name of Kevin J. Anderson.

Fantasy - science fiction author Brian Sanderson after discovering the phrase's origin, apologized in a podcast for using it as common slang.

I can imagine it and so have many science fiction authors so alluded to.

But, whereas in ancient times the apocalyptic writers expected God to usher in the new world, the first science fiction authors described a future created by human invention.

Yet the U.S. - based science fiction author said that she was desperate to see more diversity in the world of superheroes.

Nearly a century ago, early science fiction authors and futurists predicted that airships and videoconferences would someday be ubiquitous.

Writing this kind of multiple narrative is a challenge, and one that science fiction author Hannu Rajaniemi has tackled with technologist Samuel Halliday for an e-book project called Neurofiction.

«Every revolutionary idea evokes three stages of reaction,» Belikov says, paraphrasing a famous quote from the late science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

In the 1950s, science fiction author Isaac Asimov conjured up a branch of science called psychohistory.

For decades, astronomers and science fiction authors alike have speculated about orphaned orbs cast adrift from their home stars, endlessly wandering the boundless reaches of interstellar space.

The acclaimed science fiction author has written that practicing homosexuals should not be treated as equal citizens and has described gay rights as a «collective delusion.»

It was a huge catchphrase among science fiction authors and readers back in the 1990s, denoting strange works of fiction that blend realism and fantastical elements.

It is startlingly clear that the writers of Dark City were admirers of cult science fiction author, Philip K. Dick.

One of the most high - profile members of the controversial church says it «would be a crime» to speak negatively about the religion created by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard

Independent filmmaker John Alan Simon clearly loves the works of now - classic science fiction author Philip K. Dick (often referred to by fans with his initials, PKD).

Today, we're talking to YA science fiction author, Beth Revis, about being a hybrid author, the differences in traditional publishing and self - publishing, and marketing from both sides of the fence.

E. J. Wenstrom is a fantasy and science fiction author living in Cape Canaveral, FL..

Its prominent author collections include 52 works of Winston Churchill, 35 titles by renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, 20 works by Kurt Vonnegut, 12 titles from international bestselling business author Stephen Covey and 18 works by Robert Graves, celebrated 20th century English poet, critic, and author of I, Claudius and Claudius, the God.

The award was inaugurated in 1983 after the untimely death of the iconic science fiction author, Philip K. Dick, whose work has been adapted into major motion pictures such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

Laurie's clients include the New York Times and USA Today bestselling YA author Julie Kagawa, bestselling fantasy and science fiction author Michael J. Sullivan, award - winning romance author Julianne Donaldson, award - winning steampunk and fantasy authors Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris, and the award - winning Linda Wisdom, who has had more than 100 romance novels published in her career.