Eugen Bacon

Writing Speculative Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Creative and Critical Approaches

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Primary market

Undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules on Writing Science Fiction, Writing Fantasy or Writing Speculative Fiction; undergraduate students taking modules on Writing Fiction more generally.

Secondary market

Academics, general readers

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781352006063
• Artikelnr.: 62787414

Autorenporträt

Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is an African Australian author of several novels and collections. She's a British Fantasy Award winner, a Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in other awards. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the Otherwise Fellowships for 'doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction'. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a 'sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work' and was a 2024 Philip K Dick Award nominee. Eugen's creative work has appeared worldwide, including in Apex Magazine, Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Year's Best African Speculative Fiction. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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