The Fiction Writer S Guide To Alternate History
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The Fiction Writer S Guide To Alternate History
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Author : Jack Dann
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-13
The Fiction Writer S Guide To Alternate History written by Jack Dann and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann lays out the 'tricks of the trade' such 'Heinleining', how to create recognizable 'divergent points' and how to employ paratextual elements and 'layering' to overcome readers' unfamiliarity with invented counterfactual events and cultures. Alongside this, Dann takes you step-by-step through a complete short story to demonstrate, line-by-line, how alternative history fiction works. As well as Dann's exacting methodology for writing professional quality alternate history stories, this book also features a live-on-the-page Q&A with some of the most esteemed alternate history writers working today, including Kim Stanley Robinson, John Birmingham and Lisa Goldstein among many others, who will detail their own particular hacks, theories, processes, methods and strategies. Combining extensive and deep knowledge of the field with accessible writing advice, this is the ultimate guidebook to the broad and complex sub-genre of counterfactual and alterative history fiction.
The Alternate History
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Author : Karen Hellekson
language : en
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Release Date : 2001
The Alternate History written by Karen Hellekson and has been published by Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.
The Time Traveler S Guide
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Author : Simon Rose
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-10-25
The Time Traveler S Guide written by Simon Rose and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with categories.
The Time Traveler's Guide examines the writing of time travel stories and historical fiction. Books always transport us to other places, especially stories involving time travel or those set in different historical eras. The book examines the definition of time travel and historical fiction, the creation of time machines, methods and devices, selecting historical eras and settings, and creating characters and crafting dialogue. The book also explores common issues with time travel stories, and the importance of research, plausibility, description, and plot, along with writing about time travel into the future, alternate history, and parallel universes. The Time Traveler's Guide is an excellent resource for those writing time travel or historical fiction stories for both children and adults. "This is a unique book, overall, and I recommend it to writers and those interested in methods of time travel in general." "The Time Traveler's Guide is a great resource for any writer wanting to improve their craft."
Post 9 11 Historical Fiction And Alternate History Fiction
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Author : Pei-chen Liao
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-09-19
Post 9 11 Historical Fiction And Alternate History Fiction written by Pei-chen Liao and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on theories of historiography, memory, and diaspora, as well as from existing genre studies, this book explores why contemporary writers are so fascinated with history. Pei-chen Liao considers how fiction contributes to the making and remaking of the transnational history of the U.S. by thinking beyond and before 9/11, investigating how the dynamics of memory, as well as the emergent present, influences readers’ reception of historical fiction and alternate history fiction and their interpretation of the past. Set against the historical backdrop of WWII, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror, the novels under discussion tell Jewish, Japanese, white American, African, Muslim, and Native Americans’ stories of trauma and survival. As a means to transmit memories of past events, these novels demonstrate how multidirectional memory can be not only collective but connective, as exemplified by the echoes that post-9/11 readers hear between different histories of violence that the novels chronicle, as well as between the past and the present.
Public History
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Author : Thomas Cauvin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-20
Public History written by Thomas Cauvin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with History categories.
Public History: A Textbook of Practice is a guide to the many challenges historians face while teaching, learning, and practicing public history. Historians can play a dynamic and essential role in contributing to public understanding of the past, and those who work in historic preservation, in museums and archives, in government agencies, as consultants, as oral historians, or who manage crowdsourcing projects need very specific skills. This book links theory and practice and provides students and practitioners with the tools to do public history in a wide range of settings. The text engages throughout with key issues such as public participation, digital tools and media, and the internationalization of public history. Part One focuses on public history sources, and offers an overview of the creation, collection, management, and preservation of public history materials (archives, material culture, oral materials, or digital sources). Chapters cover sites and institutions such as archival repositories and museums, historic buildings and structures, and different practices such as collection management, preservation (archives, objects, sounds, moving images, buildings, sites, and landscape), oral history, and genealogy. Part Two deals with the different ways in which public historians can produce historical narratives through different media (including exhibitions, film, writing, and digital tools). The last part explores the challenges and ethical issues that public historians will encounter when working with different communities and institutions. Either in public history methods courses or as a resource for practicing public historians, this book lays the groundwork for making meaningful connections between historical sources and popular audiences.
Alt Hist Issue 2
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Author : Mark Lord
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-05-11
Alt Hist Issue 2 written by Mark Lord and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-11 with Fiction categories.
Alt Hist is the new magazine of historical fiction and alternate history. The second issue features eight new stories and also three book reviews. From ancient Egypt to World War I, and the death of Abraham Lincoln, there is something for every fan of historical fiction in Alt Hist Issue 2. Stories featured in Alt Hist Issue 2: 'Long Nights in Languedoc' by Andrew Knighton 'The Apollo Mission' by David X. Wiggin 'Son of Flanders' by William Knight 'In Cappadocia' by AshleyRose Sullivan 'The Orchid Hunters' by Priya Sharma 'Death in Theatre' by Jessica Wilson 'The Scarab of Thutmose' by Anna Sykora 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street' by N. K. Pulley And reviews of: Historical Fiction Writing: a practical guide and tool-kit by Myfanwy Cook Ruso and the River of Darkness by R. S. Downie Rome Burning by Sophia McDougall
How I Write Historical Fiction
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Author : Richard Blake
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-10-17
How I Write Historical Fiction written by Richard Blake and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-17 with Reference categories.
I could have called this short book How to Write Historical Fiction. It would arguably have been an accurate title. The book does tell you how to seek your inspiration, and where to do research, and how to find and develop characters, and how to write dialogue and description, and how to integrate the description of background into the main narrative. It even says something about how to find a publisher.On the other hand, the title I considered and rejected would have created a misleading view of the book. When I pay for a How to book, I expect something that takes me, chapter by chapter, though the matter of what I want to learn. How to Write Historical Fiction needs to start with a chapter of encouragement—for example, how Philippa Gregory and Steven Saylor have made a pile of cash from their historical novels, and how you can too. It needs to end with a list of the agents who handle historical fiction. Between these points, there must be practical advice on how to write coherent prose, and how to proof a typescript. How I Write Historical Fiction is a much better title.This book is a set of essays, interviews and reviews written between 2011 and 2014. Its most obvious faults are a degree of repetition, and a relentless puffing of my own works. I think these are pardonable faults. When you are answering the same questions, or making the same points, repetition is inevitable. As for the puffing, I wrote mainly to bring people's attention to my novels, and it would have defeated this object not to mention them. In further mitigation, I suggest that the book does contain a great deal of sound advice about the craft of historical fiction. I have spent years dealing with the problems faced by everyone who tries to write an historical novel. How I deal with them has brought me much acclaim. More to the point, it has encouraged Hodder & Stoughton—not an insignificant publisher, I hardly need to say—to commission six novels; and these have been translated so far into Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian, Chinese and Indonesian. Perhaps I am doing many things wrong. At the same time, I must be doing some things right. Such being the case, I offer these reflections as encouragement and advice to anyone who is thinking to enter the most honourable craft that is at once the dearest joy of my life—only excepting my womenfolk—and the main provider of my daily bread. Richard BlakeDeal, October 2014Post Scriptum As a further deterrent—or incentive—to the reader, I must say that neither this book nor my novels are for the prudish. Because I do not excel in such things, and because the Internet is filled with the writings of those who do excel, I prefer to avoid close descriptions of the sexual act. What I do not avoid is trying to see things as they are. Nor do I seek to judge these things by any of the standards that have been fashionable during my lifetime. One of the interviews republished here is with Ulisex, which is Mexico's leading LGBT magazine. This began as an interview with an Irish gay magazine. It was not published in Ireland. The editor had one look through it, and told me, with rising outrage and hysteria, that his mother had been profoundly shocked by the explanations of the Latin sexual vocabulary and by the translations from the Epigrams of Martial. If you are disgusted by the English meanings of words like fello and irrumo and paedico and futuo and cinaedus and pathicus and tribas, this is not a book I would encourage you to read. Otherwise, you can find a complete listing of my novels in the Appendix.
St James Guide To Science Fiction Writers
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Author : Jay P. Pederson
language : en
Publisher: Detroit, MI : St. James Press
Release Date : 1996
St James Guide To Science Fiction Writers written by Jay P. Pederson and has been published by Detroit, MI : St. James Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with American fiction categories.
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of prominent science-fiction authors, written by subject experts.
Everfair
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Author : Nisi Shawl
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Everfair written by Nisi Shawl and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Fiction categories.
From acclaimed short fiction writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate history set in the Congo, where heroes strive for a Utopia and endeavor to live together despite their differences. Now with a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull. In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British socialists to purchase land from the Congo Free State's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, which they name Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven for native populations of the Congo as well as settlers from around the world, including dream-eyed Europeans attempting to create a better society, formerly enslaved people returning from America, and Chinese railroad builders escaping hard labor. Using the combined knowledge of four continents, Everfair becomes a land of spying cats and gulls, nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons, and silent pistols that shoot poison knives. With this technology, Everfair will attempt to defeat the Belgian tyrant Leopold II. But even if they can defeat their great enemy, a looming world war and political infighting may threaten to destroy everything they have built. “A book with gorgeous sweep, spanning years and continents, loves and hates, histories and fantasies... Everfair is sometimes sad, often luminous, and always original. A wonderful achievement.” — Karen Joy Fowler At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Contemporary Authors
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Contemporary Authors written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Authors categories.