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(3.22) | 2 | 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.… (more) |
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As the editors of Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov's Science Fiction magazines we see dozens of manuscripts every week from writers who would like us to buy and publish them.  (Essay 1)
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▾Book descriptions 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Anthology contains: - On the Writing of Speculative Fiction / Robert A. Heinlein
- Living the Future: You Are What You Eat / Gardner Dozois
- Plotting / Isaac Asimov
- Dialog / Isaac Asimov
- You and Your Characters / James Patrick Kelly
- Seeing Your Way to Better Stories / Stanley Schmidt
- Turtles All the Way Down / Jane Yolen
- Learning to Write Comedy, or, Why It's Impossible and How to Do It / Connie Willis
- Good Writing Is Not Enough / Stanley Schmidt
- The Creation of Imaginary World: The World Builder's Handbook and Pocket Companion / Poul Anderson
- The Creation of Imaginary Beings / Hal Clement
- Building a Starfaring Age / Norman Spinrad
- The Ideas That Wouldn't Die / Stanley Schmidt
- The Mechanics of Submission / Sheila Williams
- Revisions / Isaac Asimov
- Writing for Young People / Isaac Asimov
- New Writers / Isaac Asimov
- Authors vs. Editors / Stanley Schmidt
- Market Resources / Ian Randal Strock
- Guidelines
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