On Writing and Worldbuilding
Author : Timothy Hickson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780473694043
Author : Timothy Hickson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780473694043
Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2001-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 158297103X
Learn to write science fiction and fantasy from a master You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how it's done, distilling years of writing experience and publishing success into concise, no-nonsense advice. You'll learn how to: • utilize story elements that define the science fiction and fantasy genres • build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world your readers will want to explore • develop the "rules" of time, space and magic that affect your world and its inhabitants • construct a compelling story by developing ideas, characters, and events that keep readers turning pages • find the markets for speculative fiction, reach them, and get published • submit queries, write cover letters, find an agent, and live the life of a writer The boundaries of your imagination are infinite. Explore them with Orson Scott Card and create fiction that casts a spell over agents, publishers, and readers from every world.
Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 2560 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 000812177X
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.
Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0358469961
The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity's never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.
Author : Lyon Sprague De Camp
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9780688500061
Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1328618862
The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon. Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.
Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1597802670
For the first time ever, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has assembled the best science fiction and the best fantasy stories of the year in one volume. More than just two books for the price of one, this book brings together over 200,000 words of the best genre fiction anywhere. Strahan's critical eye and keen editorial instincts have served him well for earlier best of the year round-ups in the Best Short Novels, Science Fiction: Best of and Fantasy: Best of series, and this is his most impressive effort yet.
Author : Garyn G. Roberts
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This one volume anthology explores the last two hundred years of Science Fiction and Fantasy--featuring women and men authors of various ethnic backgrounds, and a range of both traditional canonical literature and popular culture. Designed to heighten interest in a fun and exciting topic, this book will lead readers to meaningful intellectual, social, and historic investigations. Contributing authors include Mary W. Shelly, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bram Stoker, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, Jack London, Ray Bradbury, and Kurt Vonnegut. For fans of science fiction, fantasy, and the stories presented here, who appreciate that they represent the best of humanity, and include potential warnings for where humanity is headed.
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2017-07-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781548746636
The ultimate in Sci Fi Fantasy stories by the great authors: H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, and George O. Smith.The Star by H.G. WellsThe Eyes Have Itby Philip K. DickYouthby Isaac AsimovA Little Journeyby Ray BradburyThe Troublemakersby George O. Smith
Author : L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher : Galaxy Press LLC
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1619861852
Boldly go to worlds where no one has gone before. Explore exotic new worlds and fantastic tales that appeared in the pages of the most popular pulp fiction magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. The Collection includes: Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award Winner: The Great Secret, If I Were You, The Crossroads, A Matter of Matter, When Shadows Fall, Danger in the Dark, Greed, The Tramp, Beyond All Weapons and The Professor Was a Thief.