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The Science of Science Fiction Writing| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | James Gunn | | Publisher: | Scarecrow Trade | | Release date: | 01 November, 2000 | | List price: | $18.95 |
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I bought this book due to the glowing reviews of the other reviewers, and was very disappointed. The book was sloppily edited. I wasn't looking for errors, but kept finding them - picky stuff like typos, contradictions, and word for word repetition. A writing book shouldn't contain these types of errors.
Nearly half of the book was long-winded bios of SF authors which were sometimes interesting, but mostly not - and suggested nothing to improve writing. There were a few good tidbits, but they were few and far between.
Do not buy. Get Damon Kight's book instead - Creating Short Fiction. Much more practical and interesting. |
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Very Helpful; Thanx Scarecrow |
| After reading this book my writing was better tenfold and found myself writing longer better stories al of the time. I got my copy from the ALA convention in New Orleans from a representative of Scarecrow publishing and now thing that I should have paid the full price for it. Thanx for the book, Sarah! P.S. i know this was a little later than expected, but with school and writing I just got around to... writing this... in school?!LOL Hope to see you soon. |
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Brilliant, interesting, useful |
| As a writer and teacher of fantasy and science fiction, I have read a =lot= of how-to books over the years. Most of them range from terrible to so-so. Many can be destructive to an inexperienced or uncertain writer. This is a wonderful exception, one of only two books I consistently recommend (the other is Orson Scott Card's CHARACTERS AND VIEWPOINT). I have been assisting at Gunn's summer workshop at the University of Kansas for years now, mostly because I think he's one of the best writers -- and teachers -- in the genre. Now he's put the wisdom of his decades in the field into a book which I think can be useful to every writer, regardless of experience. I really cannot recommend this highly enough. |
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