sci-fi

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But the director also wanted “Silent Night’s grounded action to avoid looking cartoonish. “I intended to make it look different from those big movies nowadays, the sci fi, Marvel-like movies,” Woo says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

He had access to fan conventions where sci fi writers and comic book authors and artists were happy to talk to their admirers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2021

It’s self-serious, Star Trek-style sci fi for people who wear expensive suits and maybe have an endowed lab at Harvard.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2019

“I always think I’m doing hard sci fi, but I always come back to a person in a house. It grounds the story in humanity.”

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2018

I love sci fi, Daniel X, anything by James Patterson, anything that lets me escape.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin