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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Help Kickstart The Writer's Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy



The Writers’ Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy is a collection of essays and interviews with some of most influential names in the industry; each article covering a specific element of the craft of writing science fiction and fantasy.  The collaborators in this wonderful anthology include:

Neil Gaiman – “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?”


Orson Scott Card – “On Rhetoric and Style.”


Lou Anders – “Nebulous Matters, or Speculations on Subgenre.”


Lucy Snyder – “Ursula K. LeGuin Talks About A Lifetime in the Craft.”


James Gunn – “Beginnings.”


George Zebrowski – “Middles.”


Jay
Lake – “Endings.”

Nayad Monroe – “Tim Powers Talks About Writing Supernatural Awe and More.”


Pam Sargent – “Talking Too Much, or Not Enough: Dialogue in Science Fiction and Fantasy.”


Geoff Fuller -- “How Alien the Alien: A Primer on Viewpoint.”


Nancy Kress – “The Green-Skinned Zorn Laughed With Grief: Character and Emotion in Science Fiction and Fantasy.”


Harry Turtledove – “Alternate History: the How-To of What Might Have Been.”


Kelly Green – “Larry Niven Talks About the Collaborative Process.”


Joe Haldeman – “Hemingway Talks About Writing.”


Nisi Shawl – “Unbending Gender.”


Alan Dean Foster – “Reverse Engineering: Writing Novelizations.”


Alethea Kontis – “Kevin J. Anderson Talks About Spin-off Novels and Prequels.”


Elizabeth Bear -- “Tactics of Worldbuilding.”


Jackie Gamber–”Ann and Jeff Vandermeer Talk About Weird Fiction”


Michael Knost – Short fiction editors Ellen Datlow, Stanley Schmidt, Gordon Van Gelder, James Patrick Kelly, Mike Resnick, and John Joseph Adams discuss what they are looking for when reading submissions.


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This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.

This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.

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