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Fantasy Author's Handbook: Fantasy Author's Handbook – Advice for authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror

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Let’s start with this passage from the science fiction novel Babel-17  by Samuel R. Delany…

She said something unprintable. When she finished there were tears starting on her lower lids. “What I want to say, what I want to express, I just…” Again she shook her head....


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I’ve been working hard to stop using the word “rules” when it comes to creative writing—especially fiction, and including genre fiction. I’ve used that word in connection to two things in particular: one scene, one POV ...


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I’ve been oh so slowly working my way through the old Perry Rhodan books, and made it to #4: Invasion from Space by Walter Ernsting and Kurt Mahr. The quick history of Per...


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This morning I chose a book at random from a stack of books in my library. What I came up with was Selected Poems by Po Chü-i. As with many of the 2400 or so unread books I own I have no recollection at all as to how, when, or why this book came into my possession, but as I’ve...


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