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Ready Player Two. Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune and the ...
A modern-day boy switches places with a Shakespearean actor who needs to be cured by modern medicine so he can return to his own time and help Shakespeare to greater success on the stage. 1999 Timeline: Michael Crichton: Modern historians become stuck in the Middle Ages. 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: J. K. Rowling
Signature. Website. www.raybradbury.com. Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈbrædbɛri / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
March 1967. " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream " is a post-apocalyptic science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM, born from the merging of the ...
In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star as inhabitants of a society that uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency, with each individual possessing a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live.
William Sleator. William Warner Sleator III (February 13, 1945 – August 3, 2011), [1][2] known as William Sleator, was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical ...
Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights, 8th–10th centuries CE) also feature science fiction elements.One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to the Garden of Eden and to Jahannam (Islamic hell), and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much ...
75,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ (estimated), $1 million (U.S. and Canada rentals) [3] Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang [4][5] from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment).