Sentence examples for sci from inspiring English sources
noun
Abbreviation of sciences
"You may go looking for anime on mainstream television," he said, "but anime's profile on mainstream UK television has always been relatively low – a few late-night screenings on Channel 4 and the occasional prime-time airing on Sci Fi".
Sci Fi Wire has a periodic table of "The Empire Strikes Back" elements (via Geekologie).Over at Boston.com, meanwhile, there's an excellent gallery of photos from the Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn.
Mapping was completed in Burundi in 2008 and endemic areas were targeted with integrated MDA, coordinated by the health ministry's NTD team and the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI).
The coming weekend, however, seems to offer scant relief, with Melissa McCarthy comedy Tammy leading what otherwise looks to be a relatively niche field of fresh contenders, including Noel Clarke sci-fi actioner The Anomaly and Scandi dark comedy The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Through a Window and Disappeared.
The Wachowskis make their TV debut with this globe-trotting sci-fi about a bunch of people spread around the planet who find themselves connecting in surprising ways.
Far from being a straight-up sci-fi, it adds a dash of Scandi-noir, a pinch of thriller and the occasional sliver of black humour into the mix.
Star Trek communicators predated mobile phones by a good 20 years, while bionic limbs, video calling, touchscreen technology and CCTV were all predicted with eerie accuracy in the Mystic Meggian annals of sci-fi.
Alternatives to the space-travel sci-fi include Keira Knightley in Say When; Pierce Brosnan in November Man; Kristen Wiig in The Skeleton Twins; and Elijah Wood in Set Fire to the Stars.
LIKE the climax of a bad sci-fi movie, a plague of biblical proportions will soon hit the eastern part of the United States.
"Blade Runner" (1982), Ridley Scott's film derived from the Philip K. Dick story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", is sci-fi's first love story, with Harrison Ford as a private eye programmed to wipe out replicants.
Emphatically not part of the Sci-Fi season, festive favourite It's a Wonderful Life is back in play again.
