World-Building (Science Fiction Writing)
This book is designed to give science fiction writers the solid grounding they need in real science to make their fictions read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in words, calculations, tables and diagrams to help writers transport readers from one world to another.
This book is designed to give science fiction writers the solid grounding they need in real science to make their fictions read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in words, calculations, tables and diagrams to help writers transport readers from one world to another.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781582971346 (158297134X)
ASIN: 158297134X
Publish date: 1996-12-01
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc
Pages no: 212
Edition language: English
This book, written by a sci-fi author with a PhD in geology, is explicitly targeted at science fiction writers and covers world-building: literally. It is comprehensive in its description of the physics of star and planet formation and will tell you everything you need to know (and possibly more tha...
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