Sentences with phrase «science fiction authors»

To say that the science beyond «global cooling» / «new ice age» in the 1970's was anywhere near as robust or accepted by scientists in the field (as opposed to bored journalists and second tier science fiction authors) is simply untrue.

Or science fiction authors briefing the president.]

In her installations she explores utopia and dystopia as inspired by Science Fiction authors such as Don DeLillo, J.G. Ballard, Aldous Huxley, and Philip K. Dick, amongst others.

Fantasy's defining work, Lord of the Rings, is above all a work of worldbuilding, while science fiction authors have long created detailed «future histories» to tie their works together.

This month's free pick is Humaity 2.0, by variopus best - selling science fiction authors, which you should be pleased to note while this book costs $ 2.99 in the Amazon Kindle website, you can get it for free if you follow the instructions below.

You've covered my favorite indie publishing podcasts:) but I recently found Writing Excuses (I think they're all fantasy and science fiction authors.)

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.

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

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

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.»

If the client list consisted of 90 % science fiction authors, Ellen still sent her query, figuring that her novel would be a welcome change for the agent.

The science fiction authors didn't know me, and the fantasy authors didn't know P.K..

Of all the indie authors who were interviewed about their enhanced ebooks, all of them were science fiction authors.

Clark was one of the premier science fiction authors who set the tone for a generation to follow him.

Yeah, so Sci - Fi Bridge was a tiny idea I came up with, to bring together a lot of science fiction authors no matter what their background is and create a sort of co-op.

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

The groups» fight against recognizing diversity in both science fiction titles and science fiction authors has led to a serious backlash against this year's Hugo Awards, with two authors withdrawing their works from nomination (refusing the honor, essentially), one fan writer nominee withdrawing from the awards, and one presenter stepping down from the awards event itself.

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.

Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Stories Inspired by Microsoft is an anthology of short stories written by some of today's greatest science fiction authors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers and science fiction authors have worried about self - replicating nanomachines going rogue and consuming the entire planet, covering it in «grey goo ``.

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.

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.

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

I find it interesting that you find wisdom in the writings of a science fiction author.

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.

Frank Herbert, the respected science fiction author who wrote his masterwork Dune in 1965, once said that...

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

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

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.

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

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

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.

Award - winning science fiction author, physicist and futurist David Brin returns to talk about his monumental new novel, Existence.

About Blog Fantasy and science fiction author and editor Philip Athans shares his experience through witty, informative, entertaining and inspiring posts.

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.

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.»

The series is based on short stories from the science fiction author.

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

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

The science fiction author sounds like he's voice impersonating James Mason to me.

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.

Red Adept: As a fantasy / science fiction author, what improvements do you see for eBook Readers in the future?

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.

Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts, USC Annenberg in conversation with Futurist at Intel Corporation, Brian David Johnson and Cory Doctorow, Science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger.