Sentence examples for futuristic fiction from inspiring English sources

In most futuristic fiction, such lengthy asides to the reader would be both boring and intrusive.

As is true in all effective futuristic fiction, this one creates an exactingly detailed dystopia, with an exotic yet disturbingly familiar language and customs of its own.

Good futuristic fiction, whether utopian or dystopian, requires corrective or preventive grounding in the present, both in its themes and its characters.

Dystopian and futuristic fiction is dominating the young adult market, with books such as Hunger Games, Gone and Matched being massive hits worldwide.

The answers are that his prognostications are not so farfetched for futuristic fiction; that he has worked them into a real novel, not a tricked-up movie treatment; and that a little humor goes a long way in this often bleak genre.

"Imagine an Orwellian story presented with a cool, eerie precision like Peter Greenaway's and you have some sense of 'Gattaca,' a handsome and fully imagined work of cautionary futuristic fiction," Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times about this film written and directed by Andrew Niccol.

If JG Ballard had written futuristic war fiction, this is what his imagined landscape might have looked like.

It's a futuristic climate fiction novel about an eco-friendly community in Devon and Cornwall that challenges stereotypes and cultural views, through being racially and religiously diverse.

When, later on, Losey joltingly reveals the tale's politicized take on futuristic science fiction, he anchors it even more firmly in the passions and fears of the day.

In the new novel, a lengthy exercise in futuristic science fiction, the hero, named Daniel, involves himself in the founding stages of a worldwide cult, Elohimism, that delivers its adherents into practical immortality, achieved through replacement of the deceased individual by a DNA-derived duplicate possessed of not only the same bodily traits but the same memories.

Atwood's interest in science and politics has led her to write futuristic dystopian fiction, including The Handmaid's Tale (1985), which has sold millions of copies worldwide, and The Robber Bride (1993).