Thirty-five yeafterfter HAL's big screen debut, turning the stuff of science fiction into fact fell to perhaps the only organization with a more outlandish imagination than a Lucas or Spielberg: the Defense Department.
Virtually unimpeded access to the outlandish imagery and ideas of science fiction, rare books, underground comics, and strange art that were sitting on the shelves of the family library filled my imagination and fueled my interest in alterity.
But so are stories that adopt the measured, dispassionate tone of scientific communication -- what Isaac Asimov called a "transparent" style -- to lend plausibility to the most outlandish flights of imagination.
We have only to look at the novels of Jules Verne (which portrayed helicopters, submarines, projectors, jukeboxes, and space ships at a time when such devices seemed absurd) to know that the most outlandish inventions of our imagination can become everyday realities.
By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn October 27, 2009 We have only to look at the novels of Jules Verne (which portrayed helicopters, submarines, projectors, jukeboxes, and space ships at a time when such devices seemed absurd) to know that the most outlandish inventions of our imagination can become everyday realities.
Morpurgo goes off on too many outlandish tangents, which showcase his freewheeling imagination but at the expense of a fleshed-out story or consistent laughs.
And while "Gaul" would have seemed to puncture credibility with any number of outlandish plot devices, its violent, vitriolic imagination kept you involved and kept you guessing.
This debut LP is lit up by an imagination as huge and outlandish as her onstage wigs and it makes for songs that bloom: "Dodacahedron" begins plinky-plonky, then multiplies with strings, voices and harmony into something suitably multidimensional and many-faced.
The accusations against Mr. Madoff may seem so outlandish and outsize that only a literary imagination could have dreamed him up.
These answers could be as fanciful as you like: we leave it to the reader's imagination to devise examples of outlandish claims made by the guru.
