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How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy»rank: 8213by: Orson Scott Card
: :Finally, 0rson Scott Card's Hugo award-winning classic on the art and craft of writing science fiction and fantasy is available in paperback! Card provides invaluable advice for every science fiction and fantasy writer interested in constructing stories about people, worlds and events that stretch the boundaries of the possible...and the magical. They'll learn: * what is and isn't science fiction and fantasy, and where their story fits in the mix * how to build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world readers ... |
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The Writer’s Complete Fantasy Reference»rank: 77868by: Writers Digest
: :Featuring an introduction by Terry Brooks, The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference is an A to Z coverage of the realm of the fantastic. |
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The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy, Vol. 2: The Opus Magus»rank: 75037from: Dragon Moon Press
: :Dragon Moon Press follows its highly successful title, The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy, with a second volume of advice, examples, and resources dedicated to helping you create your own epic fantasy adventure. Featuring the writing talents of... Campbell and Compton Crook Winner Wen Spencer, 2003 EPPlE Award Winner Jeanine Berry , 2002 EPPlE Nominated Tony Ruggiero, 1999 Blue Boa Award Winner Kim Headlee, Will McDermott, Michael R. Mennenga, Bob Nailor, Tina Morgan, Valerie Griswold-Ford And introducing... 2004 Golden Heart Finalist Julianne ... |
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World Building (Science Fiction Writing)»rank: 51295by: Stephen Gillett, Ben Bova
: :This book is designed to give science fiction writers the solid grounding they need in real science to make their fictions read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in words, calculations, tables and diagrams to help writers transport readers from one world to another. Review:Another in Ben Bova's series on Science Fiction Writing, here geologist and SF scribe Stephen Gillett helps you construct star systems and planets from the atoms up. While it may take you a little more than ... |
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Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Self-Counsel Writing) (Self-Counsel Writing)»rank: 667789by: Crawford Kilian
: :- Learn how to get the science and the magic right - Develop believable fantasy worlds - Challenge your readers’ imagination - Written by a successful novelist |
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Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy»rank: 239228by: Analog and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
: :Do you dream of -Crossing the galaxies? Living in the far future?Entertaining millions with your imagination?This book can help make those dreams come true!Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy brings you expert advice on how to craft and market tales of the fantastic. Award-winning writers such as John Barnes, James Patrick Kelly, Norman Spinrad, Connie Willis, and Jane Yolen reveal some of their secrets of crafting believable stories, while Grand Masters lsaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein provide timeless advice for beginners and ... |
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American Short Stories (8th Edition)»rank: 313713by: Bert Hitchcock, Margaret Kouidis
: :/*JN447, 0-321-08056-4, Hitchcock, Bert; Current-Garcia; Kouidis, Virginia M., American Short Stories, Seventh Edition*/ With its historical thrust, chronological organization, and attention to 'classic' works, American Short Stories offers a discriminating collection of both canonical and recent stories in a brief anthology made all the more flexible by its streamlined apparatus. Enriched Selection of Stories and Authors: more contemporary authors and an increased representation of ethnically diverse writers, with two stories per major author. The introductions of the five time periods clarify the ... |
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The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community»rank: 622088by: Diana Pavlac Glyer
: :C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were members of a writing group known as the lnklings, a group that also included novelist Charles Williams, historian Warren Lewis, and philosopher 0wen Barfield. ln this groundbreaking book, Diana Glyer invites readers into the heart of their meetings, showing how encouragement, criticism, and collaboration changed The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other important works. While this book is a must for those who read Lewis or Tolkien, ... |
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How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Genre Writing)»rank: 75883by: Orson Scott Card
: :C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were members of a writing group known as the lnklings, a group that also included novelist Charles Williams, historian Warren Lewis, and philosopher 0wen Barfield. ln this groundbreaking book, Diana Glyer invites readers into the heart of their meetings, showing how encouragement, criticism, and collaboration changed The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other important works. While this book is a must for those who read Lewis or Tolkien, ... |
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SF Writer (with MyCompLab NEW with E-Book Student Access Code Card) (4th Edition)»rank: 1120855by: John Ruszkiewicz, Daniel Seward, Maxine Hairston
: :For courses in Freshman Composition. SF Writer, Third Edition, offers the best coverage of argument and visual rhetoric in a brief handbook. The style is energetic and witty, the advice fresh and contemporary, the design ground-breaking. More than any other handbook, SF Writer now focuses on argument. This is the handbook that reflects where the field is going, and what is important to today's students. |
