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How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

Author: Orson Scott Card
ASIN : 158297103X
Sales Rank : 16831
Studio : Writers Digest Books
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781582971032
ISBN : 158297103X
Number Of Pages : 140
Publication Date : December 15, 2001
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Finally, Orson 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 will want to explore * how to use the MICE quotient--milieu, idea, character and event--to structure a successful story * where the markets are, how to reach them and get published There's no better source of information for writers working in these genres. This book will help them effectively produce exciting stories that are both fascinating and market-ready.

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The Writer’s Complete Fantasy Reference

Author: Writers Digest
ASIN : 1582970262
Sales Rank : 71044
Studio : Writers Digest Books
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781582970264
ISBN : 1582970262
Number Of Pages : 304
Publication Date : December 15, 2000
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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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World Building (Science Fiction Writing)

Authors: Stephen Gillett, Ben Bova
ASIN : 158297134X
Sales Rank : 71943
Studio : Writer's Digest Books
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781582971346
ISBN : 158297134X
Number Of Pages : 198
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
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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.

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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 the proverbial seven days (well, six with rest), when you're done, your knowledge of gravity, weather patterns, cosmic mass and stellar patterns--in this universe--will be greatly enhanced.

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The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy, Vol. 2: The Opus Magus

Authors: Stephen Gillett, Ben Bova
ASIN : 1896944159
Sales Rank : 118583
Studio : Dragon Moon Press
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781896944159
ISBN : 1896944159
Number Of Pages : 320
Publication Date : December 01, 2007
Release Date : December 01, 2007
Publisher : Dragon Moon Press
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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 EPPIE Award Winner Jeanine Berry , 2002 EPPIE 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 Goodman, Evo Terra, Erik Amundsen, Lai Zhao

...with illustrations by Anne Moya and an introduction from Holly Lisle.

Get ready to take your work to a whole new level, and embark on a writer's adventure with The Fantasy Writer's Companion at your side!

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American Short Stories (8th Edition)

Authors: Bert Hitchcock, Margaret Kouidis
ASIN : 0321484894
Sales Rank : 31677
Studio : Longman
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780321484895
ISBN : 0321484894
Number Of Pages : 768
Publication Date : December 14, 2007
Publisher : Longman
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/*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 two-hundred year history of the American short story, its developing forms, and enduring themes. Head notes introduce each writer. New author quotes, commentary, and biographical information help readers place the authors in relation to his/her time period, in relation to other writers, and to American literature in general. For anyone interested in fiction or American literature.

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Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Author: Terry Brooks
ASIN : 0345465512
Sales Rank : 441253
Studio : Del Rey
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780345465511
ISBN : 0345465512
Number Of Pages : 208
Publication Date : December 03, 2004
Release Date : December 03, 2004
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In Sometimes the Magic Works, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks shares his secrets for creating unusual, memorable fiction. Spanning topics from the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of showing instead of merely telling to creating believable characters who make readers care what happens to them, Brooks draws upon his own experiences, hard lessons learned, and delightful discoveries made in creating the beloved Shannara and Magic Kingdom of Landover series, The Word and The Void trilogy, and the bestselling Star Wars novel The Phantom Menace.

In addition to being a writing guide, Sometimes the Magic Works is Terry Brooks’s self-portrait of the artist. “If you don’t think there is magic in writing, you probably won’t write anything magical,” says Brooks. This book offers a rare opportunity to peer into the mind of (and learn a trick or two from) one of fantasy fiction’s preeminent magicians.

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In Sometimes the Magic Works, author Terry Brooks mixes advice on writing with stories from his personal experience in publishing. A seasoned fantasy writer with 19 books under his belt, including the New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara, Brooks began his second career in middle age when he gave up his law practice to pursue writing full time. His move was fueled by an obsession with writing, ("If I don't write, I become restless and ill-tempered"), inspiration from J.R.R. Tolkien, and constant encouragement from publisher Lester del Rey. Some of Brooks's advice is specific and useful, such as the chapter he dedicates to the importance of outlining. However, the lessons he tries to tell through his own adventures tend to be self-serving. Still, Brooks's experiences could be particularly interesting and valuable to fans of his fantasy novels--and aspiring authors of their own. --Lacey Fain

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Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy

Author: Analog and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
ASIN : 0312089260
Sales Rank : 222890
Studio : St. Martin's Griffin
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780312089269
ISBN : 0312089260
Number Of Pages : 272
Publication Date : December 15, 1993
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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 Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein provide timeless advice for beginners and veterans alike. The editors also provide valuable insights into the process by which stories get published and they offer helpful hints on getting your story out of the slush pile and into print.

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Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

Author: David Gerrold
ASIN : 1582970076
Sales Rank : 219629
Studio : Writer's Digest Books
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781582970073
ISBN : 1582970076
Number Of Pages : 246
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
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Worlds of Wonder showcases the range and power of the human imagination, transported across strange worlds, lost civilizations, and brave new realities. Now, with the help of David Gerrold, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, readers will learn, step-by-step, how to turn their words into works of wonder.

Drawing on a career spanning three decades of writing and teaching, Gerrold also uses examples from numerous classic books and films to support their growth within the genre. Readers will gain insight into the craft as well as practice techniques that will immediately improve their writing as they are charmed and challenged by Gerrold's infectious passion for his craft and profession. Worlds of Wonder will ignite the engines of readers' enthusiasm in ways that will astonish them.

* Written by one of the biggest, most-recognized and most-honored names in the field!
* The science fiction and fantasy genres are currently riding a new wave of popularity

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While both science fiction and fantasy evoke "a sense of wonder in the audience," says David Gerrold in Worlds of Wonder, science fiction "is about what's possible," while "fantasy is about what's not." Writing for both these genres is a lot like "playing with a set of Lego bricks," Gerrold says: you're creating your own world, but you have to work within a logical framework. Like other forms of storytelling, says Gerrold (best known for his "Trouble with Tribbles" Star Trek episode), science fiction and fantasy rely on mysterious first sentences, effective exits, and surprises in every sentence in between. The difference is that your characters inhabit whole worlds of your own making, worlds that may be "marvelous and surprising to the reader," but must remain ordinary to the story's characters. To carry this off, says Gerrold, "you have to write each moment"--no matter how improbable--"as if you lived it yourself."

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How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Genre Writing)

Author: Orson Scott Card
ASIN : 0898794161
Sales Rank : 348600
Studio : Writers Digest Books
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780898794168
ISBN : 0898794161
Number Of Pages : 176
Publication Date : December 15, 1990
Publisher : Writers Digest Books
Manufacturer : Writers Digest Books
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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

Authors: Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner
ASIN : 0198610696
Sales Rank : 554391
Studio : Oxford University Press, USA
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780198610694
ISBN : 0198610696
Number Of Pages : 256
Publication Date : December 01, 2006
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Tolkien's first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of the OED. He later said that he had "learned more in those two years than in any other equal part of his life." The Ring of Words reveals how his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary influenced Tolkien's creative use of language in his fictional world.
Here three senior editors of the OED offer an intriguing exploration of Tolkien's career as a lexicographer and illuminate his creativity as a word user and word creator. The centerpiece of the book is a wonderful collection of "word studies" which will delight the heart of Ring fans and word lovers everywhere. The editors look at the origin of such Tolkienesque words as "hobbit," "mithril, "Smeagol," "Ent," "halfling," and "worm" (meaning "dragon"). Readers discover that a word such as "mathom" (anything a hobbit had no immediate use for, but was unwilling to throw away) was actually common in Old English, but that "Mithril," on the other hand, is a complete invention (and the first "Elven" word to have an entry in the OED). And fans of Harry Potter will be surprised to find that "Dumbledore" (the name of Hogwart's headmaster) was a word used by Tolkien and many others (it is a dialect word meaning "bumblebee").
Few novelists have found so much of their creative inspiration in the shapes and histories of words. Presenting archival material not found anywhere else, The Ring of Words offers a fresh and unexplored angle on the literary achievements of one of the world's most famous and best-loved writers.