Sentences with phrase «subject of both science fiction»

The blurred lines between fact and fiction have never felt so prevalent; they are the subjects of science fiction and dystopian novels such JG Ballard's «The Drowned World», or Yevgeny Zamyatin's «We».

Not exact matches

Whereas the tales of Aslan are classic fairy stories all shot through with the light of the new life of Christ, The Space Trilogy is the science fiction epic subjected to the same treatment.

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.

SF is not fiction about science; some of the best SF writers — Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison — have no detectable interest in the subject.

From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.

There are science fiction films that deal with the subject of time travel and then there is Looper, which comes across as refreshingly original as well as entertaining, with a story full of interesting twists.

Solaris is primarily recommended for those who love science fiction in its purest of forms, like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner, and especially for those who are familiar with the novel and previous film but are curious to see another take on the subject.

The new laboratory thriller Splice, opening this Friday, revisits a subject long dear to science fiction: the artificial creation of life.

Filmmaker Frank Pavich does a nice job of similarly peppering the proceedings with a handful of other intriguing interview subjects, including H.R. Giger, Drew McWeeny, and Nicolas Winding Refn - with the latter claiming that Jodorowsky's film would've been the «greatest achievement of science fiction.»

We spoke to science fiction erotica author Addison L. Cain about getting started in the business, some of the differences between romance and erotica, how to market it when many of the advertisers aren't interested in the subject matter, and how to get off to a good start.

In fact, the reason Hank had heard of me was that, even though the first round of works written for the Paradisi Chronicles aren't going to be out until September 1, our whole enterprise was now the subject of a good deal of buzz among the science fiction / fantasy world of indies.

The focus of my blog has meandered from Industrial Hemp, to humor, to wine, science fiction, the Simpsons and now mostly subjects of writing, publishing and geek culture.

Provides school librarians with a list of excellent works of fiction that relate directly to curriculum subjects in such areas a history, science, social studies, and language arts.

The game smartly combines tropes from classic genres — murder mystery, science fiction, coming - of - age quests — and subverts them with unique, non-linear game - play mechanics, taboo subjects, and gorgeous environments.

As art historian Patrick Murphy has noted, her works can be seen as investigations, a series of corollaries between truth and fiction, video and film, subject and medium, drawing and idea, science and art.

What results from these retro Science Fiction elements is a reverse - engineering of the subject, an analog prototype for the current dialogue around Afrofuturism.

Butler, the pioneering Los Angeles science fiction writer (the first to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, the so - called genius grant) and a writer whose narratives seamlessly blended issues of race and gender with elements of the magical, is the subject of a new exhibition on her life and work.

In this context Point of View as a collection represents how artists offer up an alternative to mainstream, mass - produced culture's content by combining the imaginative and innovative properties identified with high art with forms and subjects drawn from advertisements, commercial movies, graphic and industrial design, science fiction, and popular music.