Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy

Do you dream of -Crossing the galaxies? Living in the far future?Entertaining millions with your imagination?This book can help make those dreams come true!Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy brings you expert advice on how to craft and market tales of the fantastic. Award-winning writers such as John Barnes, James Patrick Kelly, Norman Spinrad, Connie Willis, and Jane Yolen reveal some of their secrets of crafting believable stories, while Grand Masters Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein provide timeless advice for beginners and veterans alike. The editors also provide valuable insights into the process by which stories get published and they offer helpful hints on getting your story out of the slush pile and into print.

Contents
Seeing Your Way to Better Stories • essay by Stanley Schmidt
You and Your Characters • essay by James Patrick Kelly
Living the Future: You Are What You Eat • (1976) • essay by Gardner Dozois
Dialog • [Asimov’s Editorials] • (1985) • essay by Isaac Asimov
Plotting • [Asimov’s Editorials] • (1989) • essay by Isaac Asimov
On the Writing of Speculative Fiction • (1947) • essay by Robert A. Heinlein
Turtles All the Way Down • essay by Jane Yolen
Learning to Write Comedy or Why It’s Impossible and How to Do It • essay by Connie Willis
Good Writing is Not Enough • essay by Stanley Schmidt
The Creation of Imaginary Worlds: The World Builder’s Handbook and Pocket Companion • (1974) • essay by Poul Anderson
The Creation of Imaginary Beings • (1974) • essay by Hal Clement
How to Build a Future • (1990) • essay by John Barnes
Building a Starfaring Age • essay by Norman Spinrad
The Ideas That Wouldn’t Die • essay by Stanley Schmidt
The Mechanics of Submission • essay by Sheila Williams
Revisions • [Asimov’s Editorials] • (1982) • essay by Isaac Asimov
Writing for Young People • [Asimov’s Editorials] • (1986) • essay by Isaac Asimov
New Writers • [Asimov’s Editorials] • (1987) • essay by Isaac Asimov
Authors vs. Editors • essay by Stanley Schmidt
Market Listings • essay by Ian Randal Strock