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Paragons : twelve master science fiction writers ply their craft

Author: Robin Scott Wilson
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Using their own stories as models, 12 of today's science fiction writers illuminate the art and craft of fiction. Discussed are plot, characters, setting, point of view and style. The editor, too, contributes essays.
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robin Scott Wilson
ISBN: 0312140231 9780312140236
OCLC Number: 33132143
Description: xii, 368 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Plot: Price of oranges ; One damn thing after another / Nancy Kress --
Monsters ; Making 'Monsters' / James Patrick Kelly. Character: Sisters ; Characters great and small in SF: 'Sisters" / Greg Bear --
Rachel in love ; Imaginary friends / Pat Murphy --
Setting: Glacier ; The psychic landscape / Kim Stanley Robinson --
Beast of the heartland ; God is in the details / Lucius Sheperd. Theme: Lily red ; Once more with meaning / Karen Joy Fowler --
Our neural Chernobyl ; About 'Our neural Chernobyl' / Bruce Sterling. Point of view: Feedback ; Point of view / Joe Haldeman --
Buddha nostril ; Uncle Henrry, Uncle Zorp, and Crazy Cousin Bingo / John Kessel. Style: Pretty boy crossover ; The S word / Pat Cadigan --
Fair game ; Iceberg, Goldberg, it's all the same to me / Howard Waldrop.
Responsibility: edited by Robin Scott Wilson.

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Using their own stories as models, 12 of today's science fiction writers illuminate the art and craft of fiction. Discussed are plot, characters, setting, point of view and style. The editor, too, contributes essays.

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