The set for a science fiction movie, perhaps?

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Okay, so that sounds like the start to a bad science fiction movie, but it could pave the way to understanding schizophrenia better and, by extension, lead for better treatments to schizophrenics.

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Or a diehard science fiction movie lover?

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Abrams Star Trek movie, which was a competently done science fiction action movie with some pleasant touches here and there.

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The first film, which was written and directed by James Cameron, is one of the genre-movie classics of the eighties: a lean, witty science-fiction movie without great pretensions to significance.

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In the aftermath of another world war, the city is turned into a fantastic high-tech slum that invites comparison with the science-fiction movie Blade Runner.

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During his show, he will conduct an exploration of science-fiction prototyping with a panel, run a screening of the movie Vintage Tomorrows, and ride herd on a book signing.

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Like the beginning of every great science fiction movie, experts claim that they've discovered a cure for our fuel-dependency woes that only requires an army of genetically modified bacteria... that eat wheat straw and excrete crude oil.

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