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The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History - A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History (Hardcover)
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The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History - A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History (Hardcover)
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A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate
history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant
mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First
giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to
differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack
Dann lays out the ‘tricks of the trade’ such ‘Heinleining’,
how to create recognizable ‘divergent points’ and how to employ
paratextual elements and ‘layering’ to overcome readers’
unfamiliarity with invented counterfactual events and cultures.
Alongside this, Dann takes you step-by-step through a complete
short story to demonstrate, line-by-line, how alternative history
fiction works. As well as Dann's exacting methodology for writing
professional quality alternate history stories, this book also
features a live-on-the-page Q&A with some of the most esteemed
alternate history writers working today, including Kim Stanley
Robinson, John Birmingham and Lisa Goldstein among many others, who
will detail their own particular hacks, theories, processes,
methods and strategies. Combining extensive and deep knowledge of
the field with accessible writing advice, this is the ultimate
guidebook to the broad and complex sub-genre of counterfactual and
alterative history fiction.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Jack Dann
(Adjunct Senior Research Fellow)
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Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
184 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-35135-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-350-35135-0 |
Barcode: |
9781350351356 |
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