We note signs of human activity like visitors to a far-off planet: the scarce fishing boats, float planes and jets above, the trash where land meets sea.
When she is threatened by dark forces, she finds herself protected by the aerobatically hunky Caine (a typically good-natured performance from Tatum) and finally leaves this world to enter into her noble inheritance on a far-off planet.
When the crew land on that far-off planet, they make a staggering discovery, which for Dr Shaw is pretty much a conceptual orgasm, a moment of almost sexual congress with the unknown.
While the series "literally put Sci Fi on the map," Ms. Hammer said, it also exemplified the network's notion of the genre with its main characters as human beings living on earth, not aliens on some far-off planet.
Reynal & Hitchcock published "The Little Prince," a poetic short story written and illustrated by Saint-Exupéry about a boy from a far-off planet with a halo of golden curls and an overreaching love for a rose.
Sometimes, walking to the bus stop, I think of Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things, in which a Christian pastor travels to a far-off planet to convert its alien population, whose language he cannot speak and whose faces he cannot read.
They like their Brits over here in California: Andy Serkis is greeted like a rock star when he arrives on stage to present Rise of the Planet of the Apes a little later on, and Aardman's Peter Lord is treated by the 6,500 gathered delegates with hushed awe, like an unexpected but welcome visitor from a far-off planet.
Chris Pratt plays Jim Preston, an engineer and beefcake/ordinary guy – he later appears in smudgy overalls and T-shirt – who is emigrating from Earth on a megaspaceship to start a new life on a far-off planet called Homestead II.
This video basically describes what I think of every single Wii game I've ever played: strange men have come to my house to sell me something they made in a far-off planet.
