Trying to make my fiction "real" radically shrank the field of plausible story scenarios.
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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The interplay between fact and fiction, between real-world politics and The Thick Of It, is perhaps most interesting with the character of Malcolm "all-swearing eye" Tucker.
"They were treating his fiction as if it were real, " said Mr. Mullkoff, of Ann Arbor, Mich.
In the 1950s, for instance, they turned the real threat of nuclear devastation into science fiction, helping viewers cope with a frightening future.
Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying with the electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previously thought to be the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world applications.
The fact that so many gamers do know something about Da Vinci from the games, which incorporated real history and historical figures into its fiction, is a plus for Starz moving forward if they chose to go the Spartacus route with the second season and unleash interactive entertainment.
OK, maybe the Orwellian type of world in that iconic commercial is more science fiction and good advertising than real life, but Facebook and Apple are showing some hints of a healthy relationship, which may mean we might live to see the day where the two tech giants work together.
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What you are going to see is a continuing blur between reality and fiction, the blurring between the real world and film.
In August, fact will follow fiction with the arrival of the first real-life self-destructing recording medium.
It is a perfect place for science-fiction, but it is very starkly real.
If you're into supporting real world space technology being used to make science fiction a reality, the crowdfunding project of your dreams has arrived.
While such technology still faces numerous hurdles, the capability to use it for purposes once relegated to science fiction have already been proven in a real-world context, most recently by Carnegie Mellon University researchers in 2011.
Science fiction is much more fun to study than real science.
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.
It's science fiction now, but Jensen and City of Hope are taking real steps toward making it a reality.
Kushner employs a similarly eerie confidence throughout her novel, which constantly entwines the invented with the real, and she often uses the power of invention to give her fiction the authenticity of the reportorial, the solidity of the historical.
Each new episode will unlock new content about the people, places and inventions in real-time during the broadcast, allowing fans to further explore the history behind the fiction.
The movie was fiction, but the restaurant, Ostini, and his wine are all very real, and what I love about this combo is that Ostini is a chef and restaurateur who later became a wine maker with the specific purpose of creating food friendly wines.
In an age when traditional manhood has been increasingly relegated to fiction -- capes, masks and green screens -- these three men stand as real-life heroes.
In his fiction, the ratio of smart to stupid is far more advantageous than it is in real life, but this is a minor complaint, gladly passed over for the pleasure of reading pages of implausibly brilliant speech.
Gibson admits in the introduction that these pieces, some of which originally appeared in publications like Rolling Stone, Time and Wired, aren't quite nonfiction or fiction but, like all of his writing, blur the line between what's real and what's imagined.
Though the latter two tell tales that border on science fiction, he remains an able storyteller even when heeding the constraints of the small and the real.
However, a real, honest-to-God, fly-to-the-market jetpack remains the province of science fiction.
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