When Marsh called to his aide and the pair rode off down the River Road where the gentians burned blue, Juanita was shaken and trying not to cry.

When Alexander was trying to show that he is divine so that the Greeks and Macedonians would perform proskynesis to him, Anaxarchus said that Alexander could " more justly be considered a god than Dionysus or Heracles " ( Arrian, 104 )

When he openly left Octavian's sister, Octavia Minor, and moved to Alexandria to become Cleopatra's official partner, he led many Roman politicians to believe that he was trying to become the unchecked ruler of Egypt and of other eastern kingdoms, while still maintaining his command over the many Roman legions in the East.

When telegraph messages were the state of the art in rapid long distance communication, elaborate systems of commercial codes that encoded complete phrases into single words ( commonly five-letter groups ) were developed, so that telegraphers became conversant with such " words " as BYOXO (" Are you trying to weasel out of our deal?

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

When trying to recall some words, he would frequently substitute a synonym of a similar-sounding word, such as trying to say " char " but instead saying " burn " ( a synonym of " char ") and " friend " ( a synonym of " chum ").

When occupying positions in the South Dublin Union and Jacob's factory, the rebels got involved in physical confrontations with civilians trying to prevent them from taking over the buildings.

When the curia did nothing, he spoke to the city's leading citizens, trying to persuade them to take action.

When describing the lexicon a reductionist approach is used, trying to remain general while using a minimal description.

When trying to define rigorously whether an arrangement of atoms is " sufficiently stable " to be considered a molecule, IUPAC suggests that it " must correspond to a depression on the potential energy surface that is deep enough to confine at least one vibrational state ".

Likewise, Richard McNally states, " The term ' pseudoscience ' has become little more than an inflammatory buzzword for quickly dismissing one's opponents in media sound-bites " and " When therapeutic entrepreneurs make claims on behalf of their interventions, we should not waste our time trying to determine whether their interventions qualify as pseudoscientific.

When trying to explain past phenomena, palaeontologists and other historical scientists often construct a set of hypotheses about the causes and then look for a smoking gun, a piece of evidence that indicates that one hypotheses is a better explanation than others.

When the papacy instigated the Counter-Reformation, using agents sent to his court, Rudolf backed those who he thought were the most neutral in the debate, not taking a side or trying to effect restraint, thus leading to political chaos and threatening to provoke civil war.

" Among the responses to Lethem was one from the editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction who asked: " When is it SF genre ever going to realize it can't win the game of trying to impress the mainstream?

When Elizabeth came to the throne, there was much apprehension among members of the council appointed by Mary, due to the fact that many of them ( as noted by the Spanish ambassador ) had participated in several plots against Elizabeth, such as her imprisonment in the Tower, trying to force her to marry a foreign prince and thereby sending her out of the realm, and even pushing for her death.

When Scrooge established Duckburg, Calisota, United States as his homebase he started journeying the world trying to expand his financial empire.

When Pocklington revealed his plans to trade Gretzky to Oilers general manager and head coach Glen Sather, Sather went to work trying to stop the trade, but, when he found out Gretzky played a part in it, he changed his attitude to GM as he requested Luc Robitaille in exchange.

When they started working on the album and were trying to re-record the vocals, Williams felt unsatisfied with it, so he decided to include the demo version and then release it as the first single.

When World War I began, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg as part of the Schlieffen Plan, trying to take Paris quickly and catch the French off guard by invading through neutral countries.

When Baldwin was thirteen years old, he was playing with some children, who were trying to cause each other pain by scratching each others ' arms.

When the king's messenger reached Ralambo's elder son Prince Andriantompokondrindra, he was playing fanorona and trying to win a telo noho dimy ( 3 against 5 ) situation, one that is infamously difficult to resolve.

When trying to find a female with whom to mate, males will bump against a female's abdominal area.

When he falls asleep, he has a nightmare in which he sees Catherine as a ghost trying to enter through the window.

When bandits attack, Mulan and Shang fight them off, but Mulan is devastated when Shang is seemingly killed trying to save her.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

When the game design phase began in late 1992, the main thematic influences were the science fiction action film Aliens and the horror film Evil Dead II.

When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

When the popularity of superheroes faded in the late 1940s, the company focused on such genres as science fiction, Westerns, humor, and romance.

When the narrative of a fantasy film tends to emphasize advanced technology in a fantastic world, it may be considered predominantly a science fiction film.

Some of his early novels, called " scientific romances ", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.

A 1960s advert, it reads :" When you were a kid, science fiction gave you a sense of wonder.

When he was seventeen, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and said he read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt, but cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his big science fiction influences.

Apocalyptic fiction is concerned with the end of civilization through war ( On the Beach ), pandemic ( The Last Man ), astronomic impact ( When Worlds Collide ), ecological disaster ( The Wind from Nowhere ), or some other general disaster or with a world or civilization after such a disaster.

When Pete Exline told them about the homework in a baggie incident, the Coens thought that that was very Raymond Chandler-esque and decided to integrate elements of the author's fiction into their script.

When Travis meets Betsy to join him for coffee and pie, he reminds her of a line in Kris Kristofferson's song " The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 ": " He's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction — a walking contradiction.

* August – Paramount Pictures releases George Pal science fiction film When Worlds Collide.

When asked about his focus on the possibilities of technology in fiction, Banks said about the book:

When he assembled the New York Edition of his fiction in his final years, James wrote a series of prefaces that subjected his own work to the same searching, occasionally harsh criticism.

When working on Out of this World Shubik had made a valuable contact in John Carnell, a key figure in British science fiction publishing.

Spielberg called Williams ' work " When You Wish upon a Star meets science fiction ".

When Aronofsky saw The Matrix in 1999, he considered it a film that redefined the science fiction genre.

When science fiction integrates film noir elements, Bin Aziz calls the resulting hybrid form " future noir ," a form which "... encapsulates a postmodern encounter with generic persistence, creating a mixture of irony, pessimism, prediction, extrapolation, bleakness and nostalgia.

When compared to science fiction literature, science fiction films often rely less on the human imagination and more upon action scenes and special effect-created alien creatures and exotic backgrounds.

When possible the Award winning author participates in the preceding two-week science fiction writers workshop as well as the conference.

:" When it was clear the Israelis were going to withdraw fully from Lebanon, Syrian and Lebanese officials fabricated the fiction that this small, sparsely populated area was part of Lebanon.