After three months of building civilizations in the game world, rather than the world of fiction, he deleted his files and smashed his CD.
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The relation between his world and his fiction is much stranger than that.
Driverless cars can be downright scary to some people, who see them as intruders from the world of science fiction.
In order to get comfortable with the Bitcoin vision, it helps to imagine that you are living in a world of science fiction.
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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The genetic modifications of the science fiction world are perhaps decades away for most but for a few hundred people in the world today suffering with LDL deficiency, it is a reality right around the corner.
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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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American writer Lydia Davis has been awarded the Man Booker International prize for her "achievement in fiction on the world stage".
Kemal slowly finds that his centre was by Fusun's side, rather as Mr Pamuk's fiction has recentred the world on his home city.
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.
Venables: What personal lessons did you take away from that whole experience of playing that hugely iconic role for Star Trek science fiction fans all over the world?
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The Electronic Arts-owned game studio is utilizing Kinect for Xbox 360 to allow gamers to speak to characters within the game world as they journey through the new science fiction role-playing game.
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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That story was fiction, but Murdoch put the world on notice that he is not done: "With this saga finally concluded, we will return with renewed vigor and sharpened focus to maximizing our worldwide media businesses, " said a News Corp. statement announcing that it was withdrawing its bid for Hughes.
What you are going to see is a continuing blur between reality and fiction, the blurring between the real world and film.
Amy Gigi Alexander is a writer of memoir and fiction, whose work has appeared in World Hum and AlterNet, and is forthcoming in The Nervous Breakdown and the Lonely Planet anthology An Innocent Abroad.
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.
In 1999, before Al Gore taught the world about climate change, an ex-horror fiction writer named Whitley Streiber and a supernatural radio show host named Art Bell joined forces to write The Coming Global Superstorm.
Humans may never have the ability to change into the Incredible Hulk when angry, but donning one of these may soon make the robotic gear in scenes from Alien and Iron Man seem less like science fiction fantasy and more like a new world of enhanced abilities for everyone.
Readers want fiction to plunge them into a fully imagined world, one that not only enthralls but also convinces in its scale and defining details.
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Opening in limited release, this dramatization of the bestselling non-fiction book, takes us into the frightening world where the quick, deep fried, All-American meal is assembled.
World domination by machines is still only the stuff of pulp fiction.
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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.
Conceivably, this trite exercise in romantic fiction is intended to draw more readers into the absorbing world of Josiah Wedgwood.
Once machines are capable of visually interacting with the world will unlock a trove of technologies that are now only science fiction.
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His books were already a success, but it was from a space age home he built near Colombo that the bulk of his work has been done - more than 60 titles of science fact and fiction, translated into more than 20 twenty languages around the world.
It humorously skewers the world of high tech and its truth-is-stranger-than-fiction personalities.
Its grip on the global market for screened entertainment is astonishing: it feeds 80% of the world's demand for films and 70% of its demand for television fiction.
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