

* How to imbue your tales with historically accurate information about world cultures, legends, folklore, and religions. * Exciting subgenres such as steampunk, as well as new developments in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. * How to develop dynamic and meaningful themes that will expand the cannon of sci-fi and fantasy storytelling. * How to build, populate, and dramatize fantastic new worlds.

Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction is full of advice from master authors offering definitive instructions on world building, character creation, and storytelling in the many styles and possibilities available to writers of speculative fiction.Ĭombining two Writer's Digest classics, Orson Scott Card's How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy and The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference, along with two new selections from award-winning science fiction and fantasy authors Philip Athans and Jay Lake, this new book provides the best of all worlds.

Explore them with Orson Scott Card and create fiction that casts a spell over agents, publishers, and readers from every world.Do you envision celestial cities in distant, fantastic worlds? Do you dream of mythical beasts and gallant quests in exotic kingdoms? If you have ever wanted to write the next great fantasy or science fiction story, this all-in-one comprehensive book will show you how. The boundaries of your imagination are infinite.
