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Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How To Create Out-of-This-World Novels and Short Stories

by Orson Scott Card

& others. 2d ed. Writer's Digest. 2013. 406p. index. ISBN 9781599631400. $19.99.

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This four-part work contains an updated version of Card's excellent How To Write Fantasy and Science Fiction; an essay on the state of the genre by Philip Athans; one on steampunk by Jay Lake; and "The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference," a collection of commonly employed world- and culture-building tools, handily compiled and summarized in one place.

Reviewed by Paul Stenis , Feb 01, 2016

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