How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
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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. Review: muy útil y sensato - bien planteado y sencillo de seguir. algunos comentarios realmente muy útiles. gracias Review: Gives insights to the world of writing genre in America - How publishing of Science Fiction and Fantasy developed is very interesting to read. Besides it tells how to write in these genres and how to decide what type of story you wrote.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 Reviews |
W**S
muy útil y sensato
bien planteado y sencillo de seguir. algunos comentarios realmente muy útiles. gracias
A**E
Gives insights to the world of writing genre in America
How publishing of Science Fiction and Fantasy developed is very interesting to read. Besides it tells how to write in these genres and how to decide what type of story you wrote.
慶**月
SF&ファンタジーファン必見!!
『エンダーのゲーム』で有名なオースン・スコット・カードが書いた所謂“SFの書き方”です。内容は、SFとファンタジー特有のジャンルの境界,世界設定の作り方,物語の構成方法,SFならではの書き方,作家になる方法についてです。それぞれについて具体的な例を挙げて分かりやすく書かれていて、特に『エンダーのゲーム』が出来上がるまでのエピソードはファンならずとも興味深い話です。和書でSFの書き方についての本はほとんどないので、英語能力が心もとないにもかかわらず、この本を購入してみましたが、英語も分かりやすく、内容も面白く、なんとか無事読み終えました。作者のファンは勿論のこと、SFについて詳しく知りたい人、SFを書いてみたい人には、この本は必読だと思います。
M**S
Actually, value for money in a very crowded topic...
At last I found something useful in this 'helping yourself to write' category, after several ununseful books that promise one thing and deliver 'copy & paste' wikipedia material. Anyway, Orson Scott Card is quite an opinionated guy, and therefore you will find some useful things here, different from other 'how-to' books.
M**L
An amazing self help book.
Really, very, very informative. A few mentions of his own works that might be accused of product placement, but levelled out by mentions of other books by other authors, to make examples of points. Really, Really advise that if your unsure what to do or what your doing, buy this.
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