- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Heinemann (January 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0435070088
- ISBN-13: 978-0435070083
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.3 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 281 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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#348,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #26 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Writing
- #27 in Books > Reference > Writing > Genre Fiction > Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Product Description
One of the field's most celebrated authors shares successful tips and techniques to help would-be science fiction writers turn their own ideas into imaginative stories.
About the Author
Melissa Scott is winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer in 1986 and two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award (1995, 1996). She holds degrees from Harvard College and Brandeis University, and has published seventeen novels, including Dreaming Metal (Tor, 1997) and Night Sky Mine (Tor, 1996).
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Start thinking,
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This review is from: Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (Paperback)
Melissa Scott starts the book off with "A brief defense of science fiction, or why does someone who went to Harvard write this stuff anyway?" - and the book takes off. Even though the book is less than 200 pages long she covers important points of world building, characters, research, ideas and provides suggestions for getting published.
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Author is too preoccupied to teach writing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (Paperback)
This incomplete book is not as much help as it could be. If you are looking for a good book on craft. Look elsewhere. I suggest the books of John Gardner, Gardner Dozois and Damon Knight as better places to start.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
unfortunate waste of money and trees,
By A Customer
This review is from: Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (Paperback)
The author is more self-possesed of foisting her feminist ideology on would-be writers than she is of helping them to become writers. It is far better to take advice real editors/professionals like Gardner Dozois, Damon Knight or John Gardner (who all have published books on craft) than to read this overly preachy book. The book is condecending and downright insulting to the readers and writers of Science Fiction in that it assumes that we are all lazy, twinkie-munching, television. Don't waste your money on this one. There is so much that is better out there!
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