He has received the Palanca Awards for his poetry collections and futuristic fiction.

Why this sudden outpouring of futuristic fiction?

Good futuristic fiction, whether utopian or dystopian, requires corrective or preventive grounding in the present, both in its themes and its characters.

Stories were increasingly characterised by a futuristic, science fiction bent, with mad scientists and their creations leaving havoc.

Enclosed in plexiglass boxes and lighted from behind by fluorescent tubes, these glowing collages have a fevered romanticism that borrows from both art history and futuristic fiction.

In 2000, his novel By Dawn's Early Light, which he co-wrote with Angela Hunt, won the Christy Award for futuristic Christian fiction.

In most futuristic fiction, such lengthy asides to the reader would be both boring and intrusive.

For most futuristic fiction, whether set on Earth or elsewhere, the writer must create a credible world - a coherent, self-consistent place and time - in which believable characters can interact.

But it deserves a chance, as a fully imagined work of cautionary futuristic fiction and a most impressive directorial debut.

The whole episode is a standard technology fantasy, typical of the grim antiutopian nightmares that fill most futuristic fiction, from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein" to Orwell's "1984."