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Get Your Readers' Attention--And Keep It--From the First World
to the Final Page
Translating that initial flash of inspiration into a complete
story requires careful crafting. So how do you keep your story from
beginning slowly, floundering midway, and trailing off at the end?
Nancy Kress shows you effective solutions for potential problems at
each stage of your story--essential lessons for strong
start-to-finish storytelling.
- Hook readers, agents, and editors in the first three
paragraphs.
- Make and keep your story's implicit promise to the reader.
- Build drama and credibility by controlling your prose.
- Consider the price a writer pays for flashbacks.
- Reveal character effectively throughout your story.
Get the tools you need to get your story off to an engaging start,
keep the middle tight and compelling, and make your conclusion high
impact. You'll also find dozens of exercises to help strengthen
your short story or novel. Let this resource be your guide to
successful stories--from the first word to the last.
In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference
between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful,
extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number
of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require
sleep.
Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other
"Sleepless" are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political
repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from
human society ... and, ultimately, from Earth itself.
But Leisha Camden has chosen to remain behind in a world that
envies and fears her "gift" -- a world marked for destruction in a
devastating conspiracy of freedom ... and revenge.
Two stories about artificial intelligence from one of the most
respected names in hard science fiction. Multiple Hugo and Nebula
winner Nancy Kress gives us a fascinating look into the evolution
of artificial intelligence and the impact it has on human society.
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An Alien Light (Paperback)
Nancy Kress
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Create Complex Characters How do you create a main character
readers won't forget? How do you write a book in
multiple-third-person point of view without confusing your readers
(or yourself)? How do you plant essential information about a
character's past into a story? Write Great Fiction: Characters,
Emotion & Viewpoint by award-winning author Nancy Kress answers
all of these questions and more! This accessible book is filled
with interactive exercises and valuable advice that teaches you how
to: Choose and execute the best point of view for your story Create
three-dimensional and believable characters Develop your
characters' emotions Create realistic love, fight, and death scenes
Use frustration to motivate your characters and drive your story
With dozens of excerpts from some of today's most popular writers,
Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint provides
you with the techniques you need to create characters and stories
sure to linger in the hearts and minds of agents, editors, and
readers long after they've finished your book.
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Devil's Ways (Paperback)
Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, J. M. Sidorova
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In a deep crevice awaits an alien parasite, dormant till the
accidental fall of a small girl awakens it. Annabel does not
realize how serious the consequences of her fall really are...and
how her little misstep may change the future of humanity itself.
*** A remarkable new tale in the highly acclaimed Stellar Guild
Series.
A magazine of speculative fiction. Edited by Mike Resnick. Stories
by: Nancy Kress, Nick T. Chan, Janis Ian, Marina J. Lostetter, Tom
Gerencer, Robert Silverberg, Ed McKeown, Maureen McHugh, Jeff
Calhoun, Edmond Hamilton. Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory
Benford & Book Reviews by Paul Cook. **** Please note that
earlier issues are still available on GalaxysEdge.com BN.com,
Amazon.com & other online stores.
Judy Kozinski needs answers. Her husband, a prominent genetic
scientist, has been found murdered and no one can find a motive.
*** In Las Vegas, a showgirl sends a cryptic message to FBI agent
Robert Cavanaugh from a murdered friend. *** How are the two
related and what does it have to with the mysterious drug company
Verico in New Jersey? Judy Kozinski and Robert Cavanaugh must work
together to solve an intricate maze of deceit, murder and mysteries
before the life of a whole town is put at risk.
Nancy Kress is famous for creating realistic near-future societies
based on technological advances and then studying the impact those
technological changes have on our society. Here is a collection of
three outstanding stories that deal with innovations in medical
science and how they affect our lives.
Nancy Kress is unrivaled in her treatment of genetic engineering.
In 1991 she wrote the ground-breaking classic novella Beggars in
Spain (Hugo/Nebula) and since then has only enhanced her
outstanding reputation of telling stories set in the near-future
and dealing with genetics. *** This collection brings together six
of these stories written between 1984 and 2008, including "The
Flowers of Aulit Prison" which won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial
Award for best short story.
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