science fiction

If it's a car, you could change the curves of the lines to make it look like it belongs in a science-fiction movie.

It's the basis of so much exciting science fiction and the most popular movies ever made. It's just a subject which excites our curiosity.

And I kept trying to sell the idea of a science fiction comedy, but no-one was interested.

But the idea that countries would fight it out in space has so far been confined to science fiction.

It was like being in one of those post-apocalyptic science-fiction films where vagrants wander the wasteland looking for food and shelter.

Science fiction is often about things we believe may be possible in the far future, like a hundred years later.

I'd completely closed the loop between being the science fiction fan, you know, as a kid, and doing this stuff for real.

They will also have to understand how the theory of metaphysics has been used in science fiction.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

We're talking a bit of science fiction now, but in theory there's nothing that stops you going out (into space).

Then it was pictured in one of my books, Science Fiction Poster Art, and a collector from California wanted to acquire it.

It used to be that you could only find the bionic man or woman in science fiction.

Rodney Brooks grew up in Australia, where like a lot of boys round the world, he read science fiction books and built toy robots.

And if you wonder about the timing of it: It was the last science fiction novel LRH authored before Dianetics .

One implication may come as a bit of a disappointment to science-fiction aficionados.

Both the idea of such an organism and the idea that someone might own the rights to it would have been science fiction even a decade ago.

On the face of it, that sounds like a scenario straight out of cheap science fiction.

So if you come across a strangely attractive person digging in an interesting science fiction, you know whom you're dealing with!

This interstellar ichthyoid neatly disposed of a problem all science-fiction authors have: how to let alien species talk to one another.

Nothing gets me in the mood for a little retro post- apocalyptic science fiction action-adventure like a little operatic chanting.

ROBOTS have been the stuff of science fiction for so long that it is surprisingly hard to see them as the stuff of management fact.

I would say that the influence of other religions in practice and science fiction was as influential for me as Bible studies and sermons.

The chipmaker is trying to speed along the change by reaching engineers in a language they understand: science fiction.

Bringing extinct species back to life is no longer considered science fiction. But is it a good idea?

Now its up to you find the way through the Ice, Desert and Science Fiction World as well as through the Mysterious Forest.

And of course the stories that I chose to tell were science fiction stories: "Terminator, " "Aliens, " and "The Abyss. "

The future depicted in a good SF (Science Fiction) story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible.

You said that all science fiction - no matter how dismal - was optimistic in that it assumed that there would be a future at all.

American science-fiction television drama is one of the main types of The United States plot series.

In countless fantasy or science fiction plots, invisibility is the state of an object which cannot be seen by the eyes.

Creative mug shaped like the time machine from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Science fiction movies and novels often portrayed AI taking the form of a thinking machine embodied as a humanoid robot.

It is often used as an alien planet in science fiction, for example, HG Wells' The War of the Worlds .

I'd been into science fiction, fantasy, and comic books since I was very young, so slipping into an imaginary world came easy to me.

Tomorrow's world will be a strange tale is full of science fiction and fantasy to achieve a place in space shuttle.

The point is, most science fiction gets all this wrong.

About this science fiction creation motive, probably is specially likes with myself reading the historical books related since childhood!

Things that have always been considered science fiction are becoming normal day-to-day components of our lives.

If you want to write a science fiction novel, you might want to be able to get across the galaxy very quickly. . .

All economic statistics are best seen as a peculiarly boring form of science fiction, but China's numbers are more fictional than most.

The old building made a really stark contrast to the morden girls of today, which let the photos be like a science fiction freeze frame.

That piece of science fiction, too, may prove not to have been quite so wide of the mark.

Man, that was starting to remind me of a Q&A at a science fiction convention where three people ask Shatner what his favorite episode was.

One of the ways you keep this book lively and accessible is to use anecdotes from early science fiction.

"The self-given mandate of " Real Steel " was to do science fiction with sentiment, to do as much heart as action, " Levy says.

Tsui's first feature, "The Butterfly Murders, " was an avantgarde fusion of murder mystery, science fiction and contemporary wuxia.

And if one remembers that classic science fiction television program, Tip the Glee, the episodes did not end well.

It's great to see science fiction thriving all over the world.

Science fiction also played a critical role, because it seemed to me that science-fiction authors are actually the theologians of our age.

It looked like the set of a science fiction film about the apocalypse.

It was like something out of a science fiction movie.

If it takes off, it could bring reality another step closer to science fiction, where the line between human and machine blurs.

He did not predict the future in his copious science fiction, he insisted. He simply extrapolated.

A more recent piece of science fiction than Shelley's, Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" , conceived of the resurrection of dinosaurs.

That's what I try to do in Hitchhiker's, and that's what I think the best science fiction does.

The Shortest Science Fiction Sitting at home , the last person in the world hears a knock on the door .

Science fiction often explores such questions; science falls silent at this point. Mr Kaku's work helps to fill a void.

This keyboard could be a leftover from Area 51, or a prop from the set of any science fiction movie.

Robert J. Scherrer is a cosmologist, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt and a published science-fiction author.

This picture looks like a scene from a science fiction movie, with strange, distant structures rising over a desolate alien valley.

This one could be a leftover from Area 51, or a prop from the set of any science fiction movie.

Seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey at the age of 14 had a profound effect on him and left him dreaming about making science fiction films.

For the moment, mind-reading is still science fiction.

Science fiction writers had long used videophones as a signifier of a technologically advanced civilization.

Science fiction is almost the only way that recognition of this vast non-human reality impinges on literature and the arts.

When something imaginary does happen, it is never related to any of the often used anime subjects like fantasy or science-fiction.

Mr Hoshino now plans to give the professor a well-earned rest, and return to science fiction for a bit.

The appearance of the car is much identical with the science fiction flying cars we used to watch.

A CUSTOMISED, constantly-updating newspaper used to be the stuff of science fiction.

If this sounds to you something like the "bionic swarms" from William Gibson's 1984 science fiction novel, Neuromancer, you're right.

Hostess The future of sex has long been a preoccupation of science fiction writers and fans like these at Baltimore's BaltiCon Convention.

From Star Wars to Red Dwarf, moving holograms have long been a staple of science fiction.

It looks like a cross between Noah's Ark and something out of a 1970s science-fiction film.

There's a bit of adult language and some pretty intense action scenes, most of which is science fiction in nature, and some violence.

Science fiction & fantasy magazines, the illustrated pulp fiction of the age, sparked the imaginations of a generation.

It contains science-fiction violence and also language that may be inappropriate for children under the age of thirteen.

In contrast to these urban-drama stories, some of Aoi's videos are in a more adventurous porno-science-fiction genre.

A writer of fiction since she was a child, Qi Mo wrote several science fiction novels while in primary school.

But his grasp of his subject is perhaps trumped by his knowledge of science fiction.

Perhaps because of lack of publicity, the company's production of a science fiction version of Othello played to empty houses all week.

It sounds like something out of science fiction - a huge swath of the moon covered with solar panels to beam captured energy back to Earth.

The relationship between science fiction and capacity building of national creative abilities has not been deeply explored.

He did not predict the future in his copious science fiction, he insisted.

Known mostly for her science fiction Miles Vorkosigan series, she has rarely dabbled in fantasy.

None of these capabilities exists today, but they are absolutely not science fiction.

Fortunately, such a scenario is likely to remain science fiction.

Taking a philosophical view of the work, we may develop a fresh understanding of its characters and its significance in science fiction.

Take a moment and decide for yourself with these eight advancements that are helping make science fiction into science reality.

Unlike Lucas' more playful science fiction epic, Cameron reaches for a heavy environmental message.

It may sound like science fiction today, but the era of the Plug-In Electric Hybrid Vehicle (PHEV) is about to begin.

"Paperback books: Science-fiction, mysteries and westerns are what I remember most, " recalls Morris.

He aspires to be well known as a science-fiction writer.

Western movies are usually full of the spirit of adventure, like supernatural science fiction. This makes their movies more interesting.

Sam: Wow, sounds just like the plot of a science fiction novel.

Among the most popular books being written today are those which are usually classified as science fiction.

By taking the scientific developments of his day one step further, Jules Verne laid the foundation of modern science fiction.

The concept of "genetic discrimination" currently lies in the realm of science fiction.

By taking scientific developments of his day one step further, Jules Verne laid the foundation of modern science fiction.

He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.

Right after, I got an invitation to go to a science fiction convention, and with all great earnestness walked in.

By taking the scientific developments of his day one step further, Verne laid the foundation of modern science fiction.

This myth is the result of science fiction movies which use it to add excitement or drama to the plot.

Whether we call it myth, science, fiction, or the Bible, explanations for the origin of man and the universe have always been popular.

If this sounds like science fiction, it is because "smart systems" , as the trend has come to be called, are still not widely understood.

In science fiction, she said, space travel is sterile.

a science fiction movie that relies more on an intricate plot than on special effects to hold the viewer's attention.

Old science fiction movies fantasized about aliens wanting our Earth women (like the 1959 "Teenagers From Outer Space" ).

For most people, the words "time travel" bring to mind science fiction: H. G. Wells, Star Trek, and a certain famous DeLorean automobile.

In "I, robot" , first proposed asimov three laws of robot, it has also become a later science-fiction writers template typical.

In spite of his successful career as a science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein's beliefs are more down to earth.

On a recent trip, the 34-year-old engineer from Albany, N. Y. , settled into a science-fiction novel while her husband fished.

Thus science fiction stands as a bridge between science and art, between the engineers of technology and the poets of humanity.

By taking the scientific developments of his day one step further, he laid the foundation of modern science fiction.

Meanwhile an even more ambitious project was brewing in the form of the science-fiction film "Avatar" (2009), directed by James Cameron.

This type of fantasy is not to be confused with straight science fiction.

Improve and polish an existing 3D design of a floating Research Facility for a science fiction feature film.

But it is certainly the kind of question science-fiction writers will address.

Science fiction of the written kind has long taken advantage of the cultural power of the Christ story.

" And that gave me an idea. I said excitedly, " We could write this up as a science-fiction story.

The dilemma with science fiction, he said, is that the questions it raises can be more engaging than the answers provided.

Brining fun out of science fiction is the only thing about the film.

Today, with gradual amalgamation between elegance literature and popular literature, science fiction is the best embodiment of them.

It was at around this time that James made her sole foray into science fiction.

From the themes, a rich variety: idol drama, romance drama, history, war, but I prefer comedy, crime and science fiction.

But the NASA rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are the closest things we have to the space robots of science fiction.

that would be the vote of confidence that these economic cities are for real and aren't science fiction.

Please include three science fiction, futurist, surrealist, or fantasy samples of your work.

Brain transmitters have been thought to be impossible by the majority of people and have been relegated to science fiction.

Science fiction can help to explain what science and scientists are all about to the non-scientists.

THERE is a branch of science fiction that looks at the Earth's neighbours, Mars and Venus, and asks how they might be made habitable.

In an age when scientific fact frequently overtakes science fiction, the writers man find it difficult to keep ahead of scientific advances.

It's the year 2154 and humankind has reached out to the stars in director James Cameron's new science-fiction epic Avatar.

It looks like something out of a science-fiction film.

The best-known set of guidelines for robo-ethics are the "three laws of robotics" coined by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer, in 1942.

"Lost, " ABC's science-fiction mystery, wrapped in May, failed to win an Emmy Award in any of the 4 acting categories.

Science fiction writers and computer scientists tantalize us with visions of artificial intelligence: computers that think for themselves.

Most of those friends, from a fairly early age, had been science fiction.

The author of science fiction novels like "Jurassic Park" has died. Michael Crichton had been waging a quiet battle with cancer. He was 66.

The whole business of making science fiction comedy work the way he wanted it to was something Douglas took immensely seriously.

Such faces peer out from the covers of countless science fiction books and are often attached to "alien abductors" in movies.

That's certainly the case for each of our ten favorite hard science fiction books, listed in chronological order.

And I think the uneasy relationship between science and religion is prime subject matter for science fiction.

The science fiction Western can be seen as a subgenre of either Westerns or science fiction.

Hollywood and science fiction novelists have been wrestling with this "friend or foe" question for decades.

But not so radical that you think it's science fiction.

Respected nuclear physicist and prolific writer Freeman Dyson moonlights as a science fiction writer's dream.

It is even possible to answer incoming calls with it, much like those classic science fiction movies we all love.

And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.

An exploration of themes of God, death, relationships in the guise of a non-action science fiction film.

Such ideas have littered science fiction for decades. Indeed, Graystone is a character in the American TV drama Caprica.

"I know it sounds very scary, like science fiction, " he adds, "but that can really answer questions in terms of the biology of the virus. "

I think science fiction can get you to that point a lot sooner than traditional theology studies.

He loves science fiction in particular. She was lying on the sofa doing nothing in particular.

Like all great science fiction, the film asked big questions, like, What does it really mean to be human?

This space mirror is - so far - science fiction.

What one editor thinks isn't worth publishing, another might think is the greatest science-fiction story ever written.

The play explores themes that would later become staples of robot science fiction, including freedom, love and destruction.

Compare British versus American forms of television, centering on a single genre: crime series, science fiction, situation comedy .

It would not be the first time that science fiction turned into science fact.

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, " a science fiction movie, was apparently slightly censored.

While antimatter propulsion systems are so far the stuff of science fiction, antimatter is very real.

"The Plot Against America" was a rare work of alternative-history that was not science fiction.

The science fiction writer Cory Doctorow calls this "thinking like a dandelion. "

Will this not lead down a slippery slope to genetic segregation of the sort depicted in the genetic dystopias beloved of science-fiction?

It's the stuff of science fiction, but could mirrors in space or sea water sprayed in the air be shortcuts to halt global warming?

That question looms large for 20th Century Fox and its 3-D science-fiction film "Avatar, " among the most expensive movies ever.

"We all lay around with a huge floppy dog in this strange science-fiction space, " McCullin writes (the dog is behind Lennon in this frame).

Even adults flocked into theatres to watch this movie considered as an all time great science fiction movie.

Some even claim the third book, Titus Alone, to be a precursor to the science fiction subgenre of steampunk.

A. They will not always remain in science fiction.

David: You don't like science fiction movies, like the Matrix?

Very few science fiction stories picture humanity as a passive species, allowing the tidal forces of nature to flow unperturbed.

NANOTECHNOLOGY'S use in science fiction takes many forms, classifiable by a number of measures.

Along with 2001, Contact is considered one of the most scientifically accurate science fiction movies ever made.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe---Herbert George Wells, English science-fiction author.

An electronic clipboard with a touch-screen featured in the original 1966 Star Trek science fiction television series.

A variety of architecture and lighting scenarios are explored, from sunset to bright daylight, and science fiction to old world.

Science-fiction books often deal with the subject of exploring the galaxy .

Technology is constantly narrowing the gap between science fiction and reality, bringing fundamental changes into our lives.

It "seems like something straight out of science fiction. "

EVE Online is a massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) set in a science-fiction based, persistent world.

So Star Trek gizmos like phasers and transporter beams are still the stuff of science fiction, but tricorders could be for real.

WwW. zIdiR. coM This thesis is a multi-dimensional study of Doris Lessing's science fiction: Canopus in Argos: Archives.

We also managed to move all of the science fiction books and comic books into the guest room, freeing up space elsewhere in the house.

The new words come from fast-talking areas like global marketing, science fiction, popular literature, films, business and politics.

Xinhua said the boy, Li Yupeng, 11, finished the science fiction, The Four Phoenixes, in one year.

His Bad Robot company, meanwhile, has become a production force, creating Fringe, a new hit science fiction programme for the Fox network.

Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature.

Inventors like Professor Tachi are blazing a trail into possibilities previously considered science fiction.

Science fiction and cyberpunk most often concern an imagined future, while fantasy generally concerns an alternative past.

H. G. Wells remains one of the founding fathers of science fiction.

Sammy Jacobs interest in ghosts and science fiction takes a turn for the worst when an invisible being inhabits his room and won't leave.

Walt says he hadn't heard of the book, though as a science-fiction fan he's eager to read it.

So, that seemed to resonate with the whole science fiction part of it.

Anyone who thinks that invading clone armies are the preserve of science fiction should think again.

This science fiction story is about the adventures of three young and inexperienced people trapped in a lost spaceship.

Satellite Science Fiction was another Golden Age sci-fi pulp magazine that leaned towards hard science illustrations for its covers.

In the science fiction, this kind of person has one kind of special name, the named electron transforms the human.

Didn't like too much of, comparison the love see person biography, history play, science fiction slice. However, see cinematic time be few.

But this hope is always in the realms of science fiction.

The idea that any planet has thunderstorms that can create antimatter and launch it into space is something out of science fiction.

His science fictions disclosure the contemporary social problems and provide a model for the following science fiction writing.

More than 100 years later, aerospace pioneers are still convincing the rest of us their work isn't the stuff of science fiction.

Although the story is generally considered science fiction, readers have always loved it for its basic human truths.

That's not entirely surprising, since Benford is an award-winning science-fiction writer.

But this hope is always in the realm of science fiction.

The idea of "terra forming" Mars, as enthusiasts call it, has its roots in science fiction.

Some scientists have realized the strong pull that science fiction can have on the public's imagination.

Inspired by a science fiction book, a bizarre sport called "chess boxing" has emerged in Berlin, Germany.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly---Issac Asimov, Amercian Science Fiction author.

the work of a science fiction writer is just beginning.

Such claims are an obfuscating amalgam of theory and conjecture, reality and fantasy, nonfiction and science fiction.

Many of his stories prefigure the genres of science fiction, horror, and fantasy so popular today.

Extraterrestrial life has often become the subject of science fiction films.

Science fiction movies and science fiction novels promote the idea greatly, constantly painting a terrifying future world.

As technology advances, much of science fiction inevitably becomes science fact.

Anna was reading a piece of science fiction, completely lost to the outside world.

In Climate Capsules, artists, designers and architects have dreamt up science-fiction-style solutions.

According to this conjecture we can write a science fiction and made into a film.

Surveying the results 140 years later, a British ecologist, David Wilkinson, turned to science fiction for the appropriate metaphor.

IN THE classic science-fiction film "2001" , the ship's computer, HAL, faces a dilemma.

The signal is clear: the cyber warfare is no science fiction anymore.

Today, Mars continues to excite -- not as the object of science fiction but of scientific study.

Our vision is sketched from real data, projections and facts, though we injected a dose of rigorous science fiction to fill in the gaps.

During the sixties and seventies, popular American science fiction looked to the stars and saw a Cold War there.

Such nanobots still exist only in the realm of science fiction, of course, and it may take decades before they become practical.

Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, science fiction writers do make an earnest effort to predict the future.

As popular sci-fi writer Ye Yonglie has documented, the history of modern Chinese science fiction goes back to the early 20th century.

l told them l was a member of the New York Science Fiction Fan Club.

In fact, most scientists consider 2001 to be the most scientifically accurate science fiction movie ever made.

It wouldn't be that expensive. It sounds a bit like science fiction-like, but actually it's not.

Professor Maloof says advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives.

Black holes have captivated astronomers and science fiction fans alike since they were first theorized in the 18th Century.

As Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer, once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable51 from magic. "

"It sounds like science fiction, " he says, "but engineering is turning science fiction into science fact. "

A science fiction cannot not be regarded as a mere entertainment, but in fact it tells the reader much more.

Anna was reading a piece of science fiction and completely lost in the book.

Today we're looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow's reality, the self-driving car.

It also gains ageless popularity as an outstanding gothic story and the first science fiction.

May : Er, let me see. Romance, comedy, documentary, action, science fiction, cartoon and so on.

Science fiction never imagined Google, but it certainly imagined computers that would advise us what to do.

Technological singularity was a term coined by Vernor Vinge, the science fiction author, in 1983.

Uh, you say that science fiction is gradually becoming reality. Explain that.

To keep things lively, the author intersperses illustrations and analogies from Buck Rogers stories and other classic science fiction tales.

Science fiction writers are not in the business of predicting the future. They do something much more important.

Li Shan's biological art vacillates between science fiction and potential developments in biology.

This article seeks to research an overall American science-fiction drama as a type.

From that comes Terminator 2, Frankenstein, and a huge chunk of science fiction.

Although the exotic devices sound like science fiction, the profits they generated at Disney were no illusion.

The space suit he wears had a name in science fiction even before existed in reality.