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Before you even begin writing your novel, you need to know who your characters will be. Minimally, you would want two major characters, the hero and the heroine. They will interact mostly with each o…
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Makers by Cory Doctorow Many science fiction novels ask, “What is the next big thing?” This is hardly a surprising trend. Within our own lifetimes, we have seen a succession of these next big things. It’s a theme as old as the genre itself. Makers, the extraordinary new novel by Cory Doctorow instead concerns two
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Warriors edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois In his Introduction, George R. R. Martin describes “Warriors” as a ‘spinner rack’, which is an apt description for an anthology that includes stories of every ilk from historical fiction, fantasy and sci-fi to a Western, mysteries, “some mainstream”, and “a couple of pieces that
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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology Edited by Christopher Golden In his foreword to this anthology (titled ‘The New Dead’ if you’re in the US), Christopher Golden asks his reader what the big deal about zombies is these days. That’s quite a brave move to make considering that the foreword comes just before a whole
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When I wrote my first novel, I was elated. It was in 1997, and I wrote it in under four months. I had always dreamed of writing a novel but always seemed to find excuses not to sit down and just write it. After a life-altering event, I re-evaluated my life and what I wanted to accomplish.
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Want a good book to read? In the novel King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Alder, Evyn the main character gets his tongue cut off which lead to a series of horrible, unfortunate events that are full of excitement, adventure, betrayal, and death. People can find all these things in the novel and more and that is why people should definitely read it!
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Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien Gaia Stone is a midwife outside the walled Enclave, and she and her mother faithfully deliver their quota of three babies per month to its rulers. When Gaia’s mother and father are taken away to be questioned about their written baby records and subsequently thrown in prison, Gaia begins to question
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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology edited by Christopher Golden In the Foreword, editor Christopher Golden asks, “Why are we fascinated by zombies?” I’m not sure “The New Dead” anthology ever adequately answers that question, but it does provide readers with a collection of short stories that not only celebrates the zombie genre, but also
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Boneshaker by Cherie Priest A young widow ventures into the heart of zombie-infested Seattle in search of her teenaged son. He, in turn, has gone in search of evidence that will clear his late father's name, said late father having been blamed for unleashing the gas that zombified the population in the first place. This
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Lamentation (The Psalms of Isaak) by Ken Scholes Lamentation takes place in a possible future on Earth. More than two thousand years after the so called end of the Old World. It was the Androfrancine order who saved the remaining knowledge by building the Great Library in the city of Windwir. Iron ships and mechoservitors