Author: Cory Doctorow
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Offers advice on how to get a science fiction novel or short story published, including tips on the basic elements of a work of science fiction to getting an agent, and signing a contract.

Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
Size: 42.59 MB
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
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Author:
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Size: 55.90 MB
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Category : Book review index
Languages : en
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Author: Tom Monteleone
Publisher: Penguin
Size: 34.77 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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A completely updated guide for first-time novelists. Completely revised to include new interviews with best-selling authors; more detailed information on writing genre fiction from paranormal romance to cozy mysteries; and everything a writer needs to know about self-publishing and eBooks to get started. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Writing a Novel, Second Edition, is an indispensable reference on how to write and publish a first novel. ?Expert author with over thirty published novels ?Includes interviews with new best-selling novelists ?Features new material on writing genre fiction and self-publishing

Author: Brian David Johnson
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Size: 64.38 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Science fiction is the playground of the imagination. If you are interested in science or fascinated with the future then science fiction is where you explore new ideas and let your dreams and nightmares duke it out on the safety of the page or screen. But what if we could use science fiction to do more than that? What if we could use science fiction based on science fact to not only imagine our future but develop new technologies and products? What if we could use stories, movies and comics as a kind of tool to explore the real world implications and uses of future technologies today? Science Fiction Prototyping is a practical guide to using fiction as a way to imagine our future in a whole new way. Filled with history, real world examples and conversations with experts like best selling science fiction author Cory Doctorow, senior editor at Dark Horse Comics Chris Warner and Hollywood science expert Sidney Perkowitz, Science Fiction Prototyping will give you the tools you need to begin designing the future with science fiction. The future is Brian David Johnson’s business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2021. His work is called “future casting”—using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to create a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and reinventing TV. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love and Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment, Computing and the Devices We Love). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. Table of Contents: Preface / Foreword / Epilogue / Dedication / Acknowledgments / 1. The Future Is in Your Hands / 2. Religious Robots and Runaway Were-Tigers: A Brief Overview of the Science and the Fiction that Went Into Two SF Prototypes / 3. How to Build Your Own SF Prototype in Five Steps or Less / 4. I, Robot: From Asimov to Doctorow: Exploring Short Fiction as an SF Prototype and a Conversation With Cory Doctorow / 5. The Men in the Moon: Exploring Movies as an SF Prototype and a Conversation with Sidney Perkowitz / 6. Science in the Gutters: Exploring Comics as an SF Prototype and a Conversation With Chris Warner / 7. Making the Future: Now that You Have Developed Your SF Prototype, What’s Next? / 8. Einstein’s Thought Experiments and Asimov’s Second Dream / Appendix A: The SF Prototypes / Notes / Author Biography

Author: Thomas D. Jones
Publisher: Penguin
Size: 35.34 MB
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Coverage includes: the history of NASA, from its origins in the l950s as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Projects Mercury and Gemini; the history and timeline, triumphs and tragedies of the famed Apollo missions, including the historic Apollo 11, which put the first men on the Moon in l969; NASA's contributions to our everyday life, most notably on robotics and the creation of cutting-edge research on aerodynamics and chapters on important NASA discoveries: the Pioneer and Voyager Spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope, communications satellites such as the Echo, Telstar, and Syncom.

Author: Harold D. Underdown
Publisher: Penguin
Size: 41.74 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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'Honest and precise, everything about writing for children there is to know.' Jane Yolen, author Here is the comprehensive guide to writing, publishing, and selling for an ever-expanding and always exciting children's market, now in a new and updated third edition. - Includes new chapters on self-publishing and on "how to choose a how-to", plus revision and updates throughout. - Offers practical advice on getting started and on dealing with out-of-print books. - Covers picture books, chapter books, nonfiction, middle-grade and young novels, and common formats and genres. - Reveals what happens inside a children's publishing company, and provides guidance in working with an editor. - Sample cover and query letters, manuscript format, glossary, and recommended resources in an extensive appendix. - Plus information on agents, contracts, copyright, marketing and more.

Author: Tom F. Monteleone
Publisher: Alpha Books
Size: 17.97 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Provides the tips and techniques to guide authors, covers plot, characters, and setting with information on revising, working with editors, and self-publishing.

Author: Jonathan Strahan
Publisher: Locus Pub
Size: 11.45 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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Compiled in one volume are 14 award-nominated stories that acclaimed anthologist Strahan has assembled in his third annual survey of the best new science fiction stories of the year.

Author: Mark Winokur
Publisher: Penguin
Size: 18.63 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: Hachette UK
Size: 50.98 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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In this the twenty-fourth edition of his celebrated annual Mammoth Book of Best New SF (its 28th as The Year's Best SF in the United States), award-winning editor Gardner Dozois presents 33 of 2010's most outstanding pieces of short science fiction, along with his typically informative notes on each author. Many are the work of award-winning writers, but there are also some surprising newcomers. The collection is prefaced, as ever, by Dozois's Summation of 2010 in SF, a review of the year's highlights in publishing and film - including non-fiction, media and awards - obituaries and an insightful look at emerging trends.

Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher:
Size: 16.22 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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Presents a collection of essays and articles that cover the impact of technology on society.