Sentences with phrase «science fiction novels»

For example, if you are applying for a technical position, listing the fact that you enjoy reading fantasy or science fiction novels will not increase your odds of being hired as a technical person.

About Blog Adam Roberts is the author of a growing number of science fiction novels, short stories, essays and other writings.

I enjoy reading science fiction novels, writing in journals, and taking photographs.

I also enjoy science fiction novels and action films.

Now there is a new competitor to the surgical field, pulled straight from science fiction novels.

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.

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.

What had hitherto been the stuff of dreams, comic books, science fiction novels and film, was suddenly happening for the first time, live on our TV screens.

While notions of utopia are common in popular culture, such as through science fiction novels, films, and television, the concept remains an ideal outside of our reach.

When I am not gaming, I am reading science fiction novels or performing music.

The main drawback is that free «sales» on Amazon only count one hundredth as much as paid sales in their ranking algorithm, which means that your book will not appear on Also Bought lists of popular paid science fiction novels, even if you are getting more downloads than they are.

Phoenix Publishing offers one free eBook each month in a variety of eBook formats, including the Kindle; I've picked up a couple of really good science fiction novels from them for free that they simultaneously have for sale in the Amazon Kindle store for prices up to $ 9.99.

Lee went wherever her imagination took her, penning children's and adult fantasy and science fiction novels, erotic gothic thrillers, creepy fairytale retellings, even crime novels and historical fiction.

It's often been voted one of the 50 best science fiction novels of all time — and I love this explanation of the book's title.

The list of over 350 free classic science fiction novels and stories took quite a bit of research to put together.

He has published three full - length science fiction novels and is currently writing a series of short story volumes inspired by characters in songs from the rock band Genesis.

Surely, no ivy league colleges will ever teach science fiction novels as part of the curriculum.

His science fiction novels are available as print books too and published by major publishers.

What readers need to understand is that science fiction novels - by their very nature - are meant to be inferior.

Notable books include the Hyperion series (four science fiction novels)(Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion) and more recently Illium and Olympos In 1995, Dan's alma mater, Wabash College, awarded him an honorary doctorate for his contributions in education and writing.

Park, author of half a dozen science fiction novels and a wonderful short story collection, has turned in an interesting first volume in what promises to be an exciting and thought - provoking series.

So what was I, a middle - aged white male who prefers reading crime thrillers, horror and science fiction novels, doing there?

In a home where my only choices in books were my brother's science fiction novels and my mom's cozy murder mysteries, I was just happy to have something to read, anything to read.

Notable books include the Hyperion series (four science fiction novels)(Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion) and more recently Illium and Olympos In 1995, Dan's alma mater, Wabash College, awarded him an honorary doctorate for his contributions in education...

T. C. Southwell has written over thirty fantasy and science fiction novels, as well as five screenplays.

With the exception of my science fiction novels, sales — and borrows — of the other novels have picked up since KU began.

Joe McKinney is the San Antonio - based author of several horror, crime and science fiction novels.

He writes hard Science Fiction novels based on fantastic premises.

Hints of Let the Right One In and Haruki Murakami's elliptical early science fiction novels flavor a creepy tale about mutating books, buried secrets and ghostly encounters.»

Since then, seven of her nine science fiction novels have been recommended for the Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Award; A Dead God Dancing was nominated for what was then called TABA (The American Book Award).

(If you write and promote your science fiction novels on your author website, and your target audience is readers who love science fiction, don't create a «7 Tips to Writing Dialogue» free opt - in.)

She is actively building her client list, and is interested in adult and teen horror, mystery novels, thrillers, historical fiction, science fiction novels, fantasy novels, and general fiction (both YA and adult).

She is actively building her client list, and is interested in adult and teen horror, mystery novels, thriller novels, historical fiction, science fiction novels, fantasy novels, and general fiction (both YA and adult).

It existed, yes, in science fiction novels and even movies; but, in reality, we knew that the technology was decades away.

This, of course, is the stuff of science fiction novels, not research - based school policies.

The 5th Wave is another entry in the ever - growing list of Young Adult science fiction novels being adapted for the big screen.

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.

For example, you see that you both like to read science fiction novels and you wish to find out who their favourite author is.

The world is awash in nanomaterials, but they are not the self - replicating specks that turn the world to gray goo in science fiction novels.

The cloistered world of these thoroughly pre-Vatican II nuns, with their rigid rules, harshly penitential disciplines, and permanent, world - denying vows, must seem more alien to contemporary readers than the futuristic realms of most science fiction novels.

But his less - known work, a trilogy of science fiction novels, contains some of his most profound, thrilling and decidedly adult notions of the universe we live in, the reality - shifting nature of grace and the Creator who rules over it all.

How this might play out is anyone's guess, although science fiction novels like Kim Stanley Robinson's «Mars Trilogy» give an interesting glimpse into what could transpire once we get there.

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.

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.

While at Towers Perrin, Buff had come up with an idea for a science fiction novel.

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.

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.

There is no rule that would allow us to do something useful with a supernova and a fish (except possibly in some psychedelic science fiction novel).

In Carl Sagan's science fiction novel Contact, aliens in the vicinity of the star Vega beam a series of prime numbers toward Earth.