Battlestar Grammactica

The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing, including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gain wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon society. The same writers formed the mold for the next three decades of science fiction, and much of their writing remains as fresh today as it was then.

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Isaac Asimov was for five decades a central figure in science fiction writing. Born in the Soviet Union and raised in Brooklyn, he wrote over 330 books. Martin H. Greenberg has been called the king of anthologists, with more than one thousand anthologies. Charles G. Waugh is a leading authority on science fiction and fantasy.

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A fiction-writing text by a well-known sci-fi author, editor and professor.

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Ellison…Brooks…Stephenson. These are some of the top fantasy and science fiction authors writing today. Their books reach an audience of tens of thousands and explore imaginative new worlds. Now writers can learn the secret to crafting their own breakout fantasy or sci-fi novel as Philip Athans provides a step-by-step guide to: developing the best plot structure; creating believable, exciting characters; writing compelling combat scenes; presenting technology that sounds as if it ought to work; and, also writing a strong proposal and finding the right publisher. Complete with an introduction by R.A. Salvatore, one of the decade’s most prolific fantasy writers, this guide holds the key to success for aspiring authors who want to fly to the stars, find treasure in the dragon’s lair, defend Earth from an alien invasion – and publish a bestseller.

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Philip Athans (Issaquah, WA) is managing editor of novels at Wizards of the Coast, t (more…)

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A writer and seasoned creative-writing teacher, LaPlante has assembled a treasury of materials to back up her literary expertise. In her discussion of metaphor, for example, LaPlante quotes Byron, Denis Johnson, Flannery O’Connor, Shakespeare, and William Gass. In her extrapolation of the old adage, “write about what you know,” she presents a poem by Sharon Olds, a page from the journals of Leonard Michaels, and Eudora Welty’s indelible advice: “Write about what you don’t know about what you know.” Comprehensive in its coverage of inspiration, craft, aesthetics, veracity, and purpose, this one-stop guide to writing is casual in tone and rigorous in content, elucidating the nature of fiction and nonfiction and clarifying the qualities unique to each and common to both. Each chapter contains an explication of such subjects as point of view, creating characters, and narrative structure; writing exercises, and an illustrative story by the likes of Tim O’Brien, (more…)

Two prolific and award-winning science fiction writers, Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg, have been publishing a “Dialogue” in every issue of the “SFWA Bulletin”, official publication of the Science Fiction Writers of America, for more than a decade. These collected columns explore every aspect of the literary genre, from writing to marketing to publishing, combining wit and insight with decades of experience in 25 topics.

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Mike Resnickhas been named Locus magazine’s all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. He is the author of 58 novels, 225 short stories, and 2 screenplays, and is the editor of 48 anthologies. Barry N. Malzberg is the author of more than 90 books and has edited science fiction anthologies and magazines. He won the first John Campbell Memorial Award, has won two Locus Awards for essay collections, and is a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.

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