E-books used to get lumped in with the same science-fiction stuff as jetpacks and lunar colonies.
Once again, Verhoeven uses his wry view of the media of the future to frame a tongue-in-cheek epic science-fiction action saga.
Space, rockets and science sprang out of the pages of the pulp science-fiction magazines he bought in Woolworths for threepence each, and which he could not always afford.
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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?
But for me, and particularly for the science-fiction lover in me (and for that part of me that loves stomping on necromorph corpses) I found mostly things to enjoy about the game.
When I take a tablet upstairs to continue watching a Netflix show I started on the downstairs TV, I think I'm living in the coolest science-fiction book ever written.
Perhaps a book that seems like a young-adult science-fiction title but it happens to have an extremely graphic sex scene buried somewhere in the middle.
Scientology was founded in the United States in the 1954 by science-fiction writer L Ron Hubbard.
One siren poster features Jane Fonda as "Barbarella" in the 1968 erotic science-fiction film.
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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But it does make the seemingly universal two-leggedness of aliens in science fiction movies a tad more convincing.
Will this not lead down a slippery slope to genetic segregation of the sort depicted in the genetic dystopias beloved of science-fiction?
Gaiman, whose honors include the Newbery Medal for children's writing, the Hugo for science-fiction and fantasy and a Carnegie Medal in literature, has written fantasy epics "Neverwhere" and "American Gods" and the groundbreaking graphic-novel series "The Sandman, " among other works.
These are both shows draped in the trappings of science fiction, and X-Files really does hew more closely to science than Lost does.
There are comparisons to be drawn between Dr Arkin's work and the famous Three Laws of Robotics drawn up in the 1950s by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer, to govern robot behaviour.
Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost), who write and illustrate science-fiction books, attend Comic-Con, in San Diego, and then, on a tour of alien-flavored sites of interest, bump into an actual alien.
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.
Comedy Central took on the science fiction sitcom - which is set on a spaceship in the 31st century - in 2007, after its repeats on American cable TV network Adult Swim found a large cult following.
Its director said this was not science fiction and would be day-to-day practice in the NHS within a decade.
The Sky Crawlers, meanwhile, sees Oshii Mamoru, creator of celebrated anime Ghost in the Shell, bring his philosophical outlook to a science-fiction romance about young fighter pilots.
Indeed, it has far more in common with conceptual art or alternate-reality science fiction than with sketch comedy.
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He is writing two films, one a thriller and one science fiction, and he feels the latter could be in 3-D.
Jetpacks have become something of a pop-culture meme in the past decade, a hipster shorthand for science fiction's unfulfilled promises.
If some of this sounds like science fiction, so did manned lunar vehicles in 1950, or self-driving cars in 2000.
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Although Holdstock sadly passed away in 2009, Gollancz were keen to add his tie-in work to the SFGateway, an online repository of classic science fiction, and discussions continued from there.
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Even teenagers, with their boundless enthusiasm for looking ridiculous, have to draw the line somewhere, and the artificial fabrics and science-fiction design of glam rock's outfits, which make the costumes in the closing credits of "Mamma Mia!"
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In addition the chief executive of Valve - the creator of the influential science fiction games Half Life and Portal, as well as the Steam community and marketplace - was honoured with an Academy Fellowship, Bafta's highest accolade.
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He's hoping the upcoming Fringe, an X-Files-like science fiction drama from Lost creator JJ Abrams, will prove a push in that direction.
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