Sentence examples for fiction text from inspiring English sources
This paper contributes a set of design fiction proposals and a case study of a design project that uses design fiction inspired by a science fiction text to engage issues of privacy and surveillance.
Because Johannes Kepler is best remembered for his revolutionary astronomical work, discovering basic laws of planetary motion and consistently propounding the idea that the Sun, not Earth, exists at the center of our solar system, even at the threat of being persecuted as a heretic, few know that he also is often credited with authoring the first science fiction text.
When working with a short extract of a fiction text, it helps to look closely at the language choices to work out the themes.
It was one of the inspirations for what has been called the first science fiction text in the Americas, Syzygies and Lunar Quadratures Aligned to the Meridian of Mérida of the Yucatán by an Anctitone or Inhabitant of the Moon ... by Manuel Antonio de Rivas (1775).
The paper also provides a new approach to creating design fiction, by using science fiction texts as a starting point.
Contains electronic versions of 1000 French prose fiction texts dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
DETAIL: Like so many of H. G. Wells's pioneering science fiction texts, The War of the Worlds introduces a theme that was to find countless imitations.
You spot copies of classic science fiction texts strewn on the beds – Fahrenheit 451, The Drowned World – and recognise clips from Peter Watkins's The War Game in the big-screen montage of apocalyptic films.
Alas, her Catherine – inevitably "Cat" – Morland, obsessed with vampire fiction, texting and tweeting her way through an otherwise balsawood replica of Austen's plot, is not a teenage girl her contemporaries of 2014 would understand, still less hang out with.
This study examines legacies of race thinking in radio plays derived from speculative fiction texts by black diasporic, British, and US authors, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to Kindred.
Students consider issues of aesthetics, authorship, and genre, while also contextualizing discussion within the broader framework of the political issues raised by film, TV, and other kinds of science fiction texts.
