| Description |
333 pages ; 18 cm |
| Series |
Mentor book |
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Mentor book.
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| Contents |
Plot: The tangled web. Jamboree / by Jack Williamson -- Plotting 'Jamboree' / by Jack Williamson -- We, in some strange power's employ, move on a rigorous line / by Samuel R. Delany -- Thickening the plot / by Samuel R. Delany -- Character: The determinant of incident. Crazy Maro / by Daniel Keyes -- How much does a character cost? / by Daniel Keyes -- Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes / by Harlan Ellison -- The whore with a heart of iron pyrites or Where does a writer go to find a Maggie? / by Harlan Ellison -- Setting: A local habitation and a name. The man who could not see devils / by Joanna Russ -- On setting / by Joanna Russ -- Sundance / by Robert Silverberg -- Introduction to 'Sundance' / by Robert Silverberg -- Theme To mean intensely. Nine lives / by Ursula K. Le Guin -- On theme / by Ursula K. Le Guin -- An annotated 'Masks' / by Damon Knight -- Point of view Who's minding the store?. The planners / by Kate Wilhelm -- On point of view / by Kate Wilhelm -- For a while there, Herbert Marcuse, I thought you were maybe right about alienation and Eros / by Robin Scott Wilson -- Point of view : the quick-change artist in the typewriter / by Robin Scott Wilson -- Style: The dress of thought. The listeners / by James E. Gunn -- On style / by James E. Gunn -- Grandy devil / by Frederik Pohl -- Day million / by Frederik Pohl -- On velocity exercises / by Frederick Pohl |
| Notes |
A Mentor book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- Authorship.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Wilson, Robin Scott.
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| LC no. |
73076393 |
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