Directed energy has long been considered science fiction (and frankly some of the real world programs should have stayed in science fiction), but it looks like this is the generation where we will finally see it be used on the battlefield.
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Venables: Your work in science fiction goes back to your role as Dr. Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap in 1989, a series still syndicated around the world.
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Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado Last week, the possibility of war in space moved from pure science fiction created in Hollywood to realistic planning done here by the Air Force.
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In-car navigation, voice recognition, and MP3 support were still the stuff of science fiction in those dark days (particularly at the four-digit asking price), and the whole thing was doomed to a geeky, spendy niche.
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Banks: I guess it's the freedom that you get in science fiction, that you can basically go anywhere.
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In science fiction programmes such as Star Trek, tractor beams are used to move much more massive objects.
But it does make the seemingly universal two-leggedness of aliens in science fiction movies a tad more convincing.
"Leonard Nimoy's Spock defined science fiction in the 1960s, " says Walters, who also founded movie review site bigfanboy.com in 2004.
The future looks a lot more like science fiction in health care than in any other part of our daily lives.
They are in the vanguard of what is called "hard" science fiction, in which most of the writing is based on actual scientific principles.
As we have watched digital technology emerge from their Jurassic era to life in science fiction, it is hard to imagine what comes next.
There appears to be no waning of viewers' interest in science fiction, with Steven Spielberg's alien abduction series Taken giving the Sci Fi Channel its best ratings.
"Although robots are sometimes depicted in science fiction movies as having emotions, they are just machines which need people to operate them, " says Ms Litzenberger.
Immigration in science fiction and fantasy is not an uncommon theme.
Mr Mawer has fused pure story-telling with complex genetic theory to produce a fable that is accurate and readable a mature marriage of science and fiction in which scientists are no longer Frankensteins, Strangeloves or nerds.
Soon they could well be joined by lots of other sites devoted to enthusiasts that currently do not sell books but which might offer them as one of a range of products for people interested in science fiction, gardening or whatever.
It's not incredibly subtle in the way that a piano can be, but by god, it's good for impressive, wide-screen baroque, as Brian Aldiss once described it, and I think there's still that feeling of the epic that's easier to get in science fiction.
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Moreover, millions of these planets may circle two stars an arrangement considered so unlikely that until a few months ago it was found only in science fiction according to a separate finding by astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope that was published online Wednesday in Nature.
The practical part of the exercise involves proposing how Intel can target future products for these applications, which, upon conception, live only in the realm of science fiction, but which can be brought about in real life by focus and effort over, say, a decade.
Also on hand was the monocle which was very much like something you'd see in a science fiction flick.
In the science fiction flick The Signal, a mysterious transmission makes the inhabitants of a city insane.
For instance it offers Aliens, the second part in the science fiction series, but curiously not Alien.
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Walter Mosley says the science-fiction element in the book gives him the freedom to follow 47 through history.
He had long been interested in the idea of life in space, but that interest was initially expressed only in his science-fiction.
Well, what attracted you to the science-fiction genre in the first place?
He did go a step further and practically blamed the fans for the cancellation, something you do not do in the Science Fiction world.
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Her career received a boost in 1990 when she appeared as Offred in the science fiction film A Handmaid's Tale with Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall.
In the science fiction future of the film Minority Report, Stephen Spielberg displayed his vision of driverless automobiles: a thousand gleaming pods of metal and glass flowing in perfectly coordinated highway traffic.
In his science fiction, Bradbury created these frightening predictions of the future to use as critiques of where our culture was heading, and the most frightening part is he got it right.
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