Sentences with phrase «science fiction writing»

Engaging interests such as science fiction writing, psychology, and the occult, Yackulic's work manifests as artist's books, painting, works on paper, and zines, employing techniques including letterpress, staining, and xerography.

The exhibition showcases a variety of approaches and artistic processes, mapping a short yet historically important period, when new universal principles to engineer the future were found at the intersection of different art forms and disciplines, including metaphysics, science fiction writing, music, and poetry.

WEISS: Back in the»80s, were you influenced by science fiction writing?

Researchers Explain Why We Love Harry Potter, First Mad Scientist Science Fiction Writing Contest.

Last week, Author's Digest provided a brief introduction to science fiction writing.

Not merely a dictionary of science fiction terms, this is a resource of all the words from science fiction that have been absorbed into popular culture, defining them from their earliest known appearance in science fiction writing through modern usage.

My narrative unit now focuses on reading and writing historical fiction and / or science fiction writing.

I am a biochemistry student, I do science fiction writing, dancehall music translation.

«The idea of a hidden «Planet - X» at the L3 point has been a popular topic in science fiction writing.

It might surprise you to learn that — in addition to my blog posts here, and the grant / paper writing I do for my job — that I dabble in science fiction writing as well.

All of you have been enormously supportive of my science fiction writing as well as my science writing, and I hope that will continue.

The master of science fiction wrote this novel in 1957 — in which a hard - drinking inventor travels forward through time to the year... 2000.

PhilC 110: As any science fiction write will tell, you science fiction, which this is, is nortoriously poor at predicting what actually happens.

As any science fiction write will tell, you science fiction, which this is, is nortoriously poor at predicting what actually happens.

Not exact matches

Lewis wrote, noting that such salted weapons were featured in the 1964 science - fiction Cold War parody film «Dr. Strangelove.»

In 1945, Arthur C. Clarke, a physicist and budding science - fiction author, wrote a manuscript called The Space Station: Its Radio Applications.

The prolific science - fiction author Ray Bradbury collected the lessons he had learned about the craft during his long and successful career in Zen in the Art of Writing.

Ep559: Andy Weir, author of NYT bestseller «The Martian» (soon to be Ridley Scott / Matt Damon movie) on writing the year's science fiction smash

John W. Campbell, the editor of Analog (formerly Astounding) Science Fiction, once wrote an editorial remarkable for the contrarian points he brought up (among other things, he came out against motherhood and for the man - eating shark).

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.

NO... but people that believe in the biblical fantasy will always try to add some kind of science angle to it so as to legitimize the badly written piece of crappy fiction..

Jared: Jerusha has a cousin up in Alaska who's 14 and for a long time he's been writing really messed - up science fiction and fantasy stories that had his parents worried for awhile.

For these reasons, Jews drawn to speculative writing may have an affinity for the science fiction over fantasy.

«Some find it shocking that a technically gifted group, earning its keep by designing web sites for businesses, could fall prey to aberrational beliefs that blended far - out science fiction with elements of Christianity,» write the editors.

I had called Ray Bradbury's daughter to tell her that I wanted to write about a different side of her father: What did this science fiction giant think about God and the afterlife?

This adjustment would have made it clearer what Carter — who teaches at the University of Arizona and who has written learnedly on the eras of Grant, Coolidge, and Eisenhower, as well as on such disparate subjects as Antarctica and science fiction — was up to.

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

You see where this is going, and it's not like I'm going to write science fiction about how the 2018 Nationals become the worst team in the league.

I'm also working on science fiction and fantasy novels, and pretty much any and all writing projects I can get my hands on.

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.

Sal was an acclaimed author in the early 1950s when he wrote science fiction books.

«Every science fiction buff will immediately recognize it as a miniature version of the creature from the movie Alien,» he wrote.

James (left) and Gregory Benford have both written science fiction and, as physicists, done their part to help science fact catch up.

Imagine if — with our free time — we wrote science fiction stories, or gave science - related performances, or made scientific art.

A Voyage to the Moon — a satirical account of a space voyage, often cited as the first science fiction story — was written by the real Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649, just 40 years after Galileo's first telescopic observations of the moon.

And in June of 1959, we wrote, «The problems of eating and drinking under weightless conditions in space, long a topic of speculation [among] science fiction writers are now under investigation in a flying laboratory.

I've articulated it as a science fiction story, and I don't think anyone else has written that particular story yet, so for me it's new and interesting because it is plausible — and if we enacted it successfully, we could solve some terrible problems we're facing.

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.

But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing fiction about science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more than those of any other living novelist.

There might be purists who'd argue that what Crichton writes are better classified as techno - thrillers than works of science fiction, because drawing petty distinctions is what being a purist is all about.

On the weekends I write fiction or tackle a short science article.

The answer is they all wrote stories that involved a journey to the Moon, one of the oldest and most popular themes of the science fiction genre until 25 years ago, when it was crushed by the weight of reality and Neil Armstrong's foot.

My favourite chapter is written by Louis and Morrow, and takes the form of a science fiction short story illustrating the future of workgroup computing.

IAIN BANKS has two careers: one writing contemporary literary fiction, and the other, as Iain M. Banks, turning out politically savvy science fiction.

No wonder you've begun writing in the science fiction genre.

«Hard» science fiction is often written by scientists.

Several of the 16 writers in The Profession of Science Fiction also concentrate on the relationship between mainstream writing and SF.

SF, John announced, was unique in that it was invariably written by «the science - fiction method» analogous to the «scientific method» which, or so we would all like to believe, underpins all science.

Decades ago, the late John Phillifent, who produced some good SF of his own under the pen name of John Rackham, wrote to me in some excitement to say that he had finally figured out just what the diagnostic cut was between science fiction and all other forms of writing.

Ballard goes the furthest and, quoting from his earlier writing, says: «Science fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other than science fiction are doomed to irrelScience fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other than science fiction are doomed to irrelscience fiction are doomed to irrelevance.