Writing Speculative Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781352006056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Eugen Bacon

Opis

In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the work of other writers and theorists, to interrogate its various subgenres.

Spis treści

The non-introduction.- There's a story in you.- Vogler's hero/ine's journey.- The speculative: a problem with definitions.- Genres and subgenres of speculative fiction.- Fantasy.- Science Fiction.- Horror and the paranormal.- Cross genre.- Literary speculative fiction.- Short story.- Targeting young adults and new adults.- Critical and cultural theories.- e-Publishing.

O autorze

Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. Her stories have won, been shortlisted and commended in international awards, including the Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Award, Nommo Award for Africans and Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards. Her creative work has appeared in literary and speculative fiction publications worldwide, including Award Winning Australian Writing, British Science Fiction Association's Vector Magazine, AntipodeanSF, Andromeda, Aurealis, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Meniscus, TEXT, The Victorian Writer, Unsung Stories, the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and through Routledge in New Writing. Publications: Claiming T-Mo (Meerkat Press). Writing Speculative Fiction (Red Globe Press). In 2020: Her Bitch Dress (Ginninderra Press); The Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories (Meerkat Press) Hadithi (Luna Press Publishing); Inside the Dreaming (NewCon Press).