Sentences with phrase «writers of fiction in»

It is open to writers of fiction in Irish...

It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him.

Not exact matches

The series was pitched to him in Los Angeles by superstar science - fiction writer J. Michael Straczynski and Andy and Lana Wachowski, the directors of The Matrix series of movies.

In fact, Mary Shelley is considered one of the earliest writers of science fiction.

At least the writers of the bible and Stephen King had one thing in common — they both wrote good fiction.

Could God use modern writers of fiction, or perhaps even baseball players, much as he used the Assyrians in Isaiah's day, to communicate his truth to us?

What I found, in addition to more wonderful reading, was a writer who had lived in many of the worlds evoked by his fiction.

«No major writer in our history,» he said, «has ever shown such an extent of accomplishment» as this author of essays, parodies, apologetics, criticism, light verse, and memoirs; scholar and author of detective fiction; ecclesiastical historian; translator; and homilist of genius.

The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).

It is no coincidence that the near unanimous judgment of science fiction writers is that a world dominated by technological hardware is a world in which individual human self - identity is missing.

L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer back in the days when science fiction was worth about two cents a word, is said to have decreed to a gathering of fellow writers that religion was where the real money could be found.

At a time when many writers of fiction appear content to spin out tales concocted by marketing firms, or else lose themselves in worlds of arch and arcane wordplay, Murdoch is extravagant, enthusiastic and earnest.

Both of these scenes — as well as innumerable others like them in Tolstoy's fiction — are simply far beyond Dostoevsky's range as a writer; he could never have produced anything remotely like them.

In a newspaper column, science fiction writer Orson Scott Card once told the story of a woman who called his house and told his wife that she'd had a one - night stand with him the previous night.

To take just one example, in arguing that few contemporary writers take on the fundamental question of belief versus unbelief, Elie dismisses Alice McDermott's fiction as being merely about Irish Catholic New Yorkers from the 1950s and»60s.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Randy Boyagoda seems not to have noticed that the writers he's tired of seeing cited by his fellow Christians did not place their faith, as he does, in anything so small as literature («Faith in Fiction,» August / September).

I received many, many messages from readers offering counter-evidence to my complaint in the form of notable contemporary writers who do engage faith matters in their fiction, and indeed Image journal has developed a list of what it calls «the Image Top 50 Contemporary Writers of Faith» in response to thewriters who do engage faith matters in their fiction, and indeed Image journal has developed a list of what it calls «the Image Top 50 Contemporary Writers of Faith» in response to theWriters of Faith» in response to the essay.

I remember seeing an interview with a Baptist fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little sex in his books.

I remember seeing an interview with a Baptist fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little socks in his books.

Whether it's the fiction writer tying in a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter, derailing the reader's plan to stop for the night five chapters ago, or the comedian on stage who knows that he must surprise his audience at least 180 times... keep the surprises coming.

Toby is a part - time writer of fiction, poetry, music and freelance articles, with particular interests in creativity and the nature of consciousness.

The news out of Washington is putting a kink in the bevy of political dramas on TV as reality becomes stranger than any fiction writers can dream up.

The Guardian reports: «A former minister and fiction writer, Alvarado Quesada, 38, had 61 % of the vote with results in from 95 % of polling stations, a far bigger lead than predicted by opinion polls that foresaw a tight race.»

Because we physicists have realized that the nature of time is too important an issue to be left solely in the hands of science fiction writers.»

2 Birth of the (un) cool: In 1926 writer Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories, the first true science - fiction magazine.

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.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

«People always wanted storytelling games,» says Emily Short, an award - winning writer of interactive fiction — text - based adventures where the player has to type in commands at an on - screen prompt.

Cory Doctorow, a writer and intellectual property activist, has released the text of his first science - fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, under a new license that goes by the somewhat awkward name «Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike.»

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

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

As an amateur science - fiction writer, I was excited to read that the difficulty in detecting dark matter may be due to it — or gravity — being an emergent phenomenon of a suite of particles (18 March, p 28).

Science and space exploration have caught up to science fiction in many ways, producing marvels beyond the imaginings of the visionary writers of the past.

Science fiction writers, beginning with Arthur C. Clarke in his 1979 novel, The Fountains of Paradise, and a few engineers have kicked around fantastic notions of a space elevator for years.

The problem Sagan faced, as all science fiction writers do in such situations, is that at the speed of, say, the Voyager spacecraft (the fastest human - made object), it would take about 490,000 years to get to Vega.

Science - fiction writers have been resurrecting Neandertals in novels for decades, imagining what it would be like to see and communicate (not to mention mate) with another species of human.

In 1993 the science - fiction writer Vernor Vinge wrote an essay on this particular kind of future.

Many science - fiction writers have proposed life - forms that use alternate elemental building blocks, often silicon instead of carbon, but this marks the first known case in a real organism.

Mars, despite its inhospitable climate and heavily irradiated surface that would kill humans in a matter of minutes, has been a source of unending fascination for scientists and science fiction writers alike.

One of the top - selling fiction writers in the world, Patricia has sold over an astounding 100 million books in 35 languages in 120 countries.

Andrea Rothman was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Rockefeller University in New York, where she studied the neurobiology of olfaction; she is a fiction writer and an editor for the journal Hunger Mountain, and her first novel, set in a research lab, is under contract with Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency.

Science fiction writer and proto - astrobiologist Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote decades ago that the first life found beyond Earth would most likely be in the oceans of Europa.

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Learn about all the different kinds of characters, like round, flat, stock, or antagonist, that writers and readers encounter in fiction.

Lucia, a writer of children's books, dips in and out of fiction in her own life, the line blurring so often that it's hard to tell what's real and what's fantasy in Lucia, Lucia.

The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.

It has been argued that Jackson's performances in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown served to sanction his writer - director's fetishizing of certain stereotypes pertaining to African - American movie characters — and also his co-opting of subcultural postures and attitudes well beyond his real - life experiences (if not, it goes without saying, his VHS collection).

For our first show of 2018, we welcome writer and critic Dr Eloise Ross, who joins us as we check out some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's paean to press freedoms The Post (01:04), Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water (05:46), Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (10:23), and Ridley Scott's Getty dynasty biopic All the Money in the World (13:16).

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