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What is Science Fiction and Fantasy?
I looked
long and hard into the mirror of Science Fiction and Fantasy. But I really
couldn't see anything. Finally I took a hammer to it and smashed it into
a thousand pieces. Each shard reflected the world back to me in its own
individual way- Every view was different. I hammered each piece some more
until there were millions of tiny fragments. "The secret is still
there" I thought. So I grabbed my telescope and pointed it at
the pieces on the floor and the answer came to me. The pieces were a galaxy
of stars, each observing and reflecting the world in its own individual
way. This is Science Fiction and Fantasy. Each work looks at the
world in its own way. Each is a bright diamond or star and in this collection
there is everything, and through them we may be able to grok the
nature of "The Everything". Pick a subject and Science Fiction
and Fantasy has reflected it: Armageddon, religion, philosophy, society,
technology, human nature, time travel, invisibility, war, love, nature,
play, work, culture, space travel, and alternate histories- just to name
a few.
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Want to write your own novel but can't get started? Here is Will's sure-fire, four-step, guaranteed method that will get you writing! Step 1: Turn off the television!
How much Tube do you watch every day? How much every week? Step 2: Buy a spiral bound notebook. I hear it all the time: "I can't use a computer well.
I can't spell. I don't have the things I need to write. Step 3: Buy a pen or pencil What have we invested so far? Five bucks? Don't have the five bucks? Sell your TV. (Two birds with one stone.) Step 4: Sit down somewhere and write. That's it. Just write. Don't let your mind psych you out.
Don't even give a second thought to all that stuff about dialogue, setting,
characterizations, plot lines and the like. It doesn't have to be great.
It doesn't even have to be good. That will come later. It is just like
exercise. The more you do, the better Hey listen, sit down and write the first sentence and watch
it grow into a first paragraph and then into a first page and a first
chapter. Oh and after you write that first sentence send it to me. Tangents
There's a lot of broken stuff in my world and a broken gas
stove is what motivated me to If you have read this essay and the essay about the gas
stove then you know that there is a
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