Synopses & Reviews
This book is a comprehensive guide and reference for new and seasoned Science Fiction writers. It is the first volume in a new series that extends the highly successful Complete Guide to Writing brand - including The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy: Volumes 1 through 3.
The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction: Volume 1 begins with a warning for new science fiction writers about the pitfalls and clichs that often plague a first science fiction story and finishes with practical information on how to present, sell and promote a finished novel and what to prepare for once the writer has achieved success. Topics in the guide range from the history of SF to alien creation, world building, space travel, and future medicine.
Written by established professionals, with contributions from the authors of our other writing guides, as well as up-and-coming new media authors.
Contributors include: Michele Acker, Jeanne Allen, Piers Anthony, Milena Benini, Orson Scott Card, Ian Irvine, Wil McCarthy, Michael McRae, Tina Morgan, Bob Nailor, Darin Park, Kim Richards, Simon Rose, Bud Sparhawk and Carol Hightshoe.
Synopsis
The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction, Volume 1, is a comprehensive writer's guide for the amateur writer. From the pitfalls and clich?'s common in a first story-and how to avoid them-to selling and promoting a novel, and living the writing life. Every writer will find some value in the wisdom within these pages. Covering both the basics of writing genre fiction, and techinical aspects of the science behind a good sf story, this guide includes seldom covered topics: Alien Creation and Sub-genres, and topics no other book on the subject has written about: Fan Fiction and Graphic Novels. This is a reference guide that no aspiring science fiction writer should be without.All aspiring and newly established science fiction writers should read The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction before sending out their manuscripts. - Leslie Halpern, My Shelf Book Review