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Writing sci-fi, fantasy, & horror

Dakan, Rick2022
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"Aspiring writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror look no further in your quest for a guide to help you transport your audience to faraway lands or alternate timelines. As you envision distant futures and write about new worlds, this handy guide is here to help you improve your technique. You'll find out how to see your work through the eyes of your audience (is that a magic power or a horror plotline?), so you can perfect your characters, build mystery, create conflict and resolution, write realistic space battles--and, of course, get published! Turn your wildest imaginings into captivating prose"--Back cover.
Main title:
Writing sci-fi, fantasy, & horror / by Rick Dakan and Ryan G. Van Cleave ; foreword by Ann VanderMeer.
Author:
Dakan, Rick, authorVan Cleave, Ryan G., 1972-, authorVanderMeer, Ann, writer of foreword
Imprint:
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022]©2022
Collation:
xviii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1: Getting started: the basics of story -- Part 2: Worldbuilding: journey to other worlds -- Part 3: Science fiction: journeys into the future -- Part 4: Fantasy: journeys into the imagination -- Part 5: Horror: journeys into fear -- Part 6: The journey from writing to publication -- Part 7: the part of tens.
ISBN:
9781119839095 (pbk)9781119839095
Dewey class:
808.38762808.387
Language:
English
BRN:
515190
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