Paragons Book

Show, don't tell is the first thing a fiction writer learns. The dozen masters assembled here each take one of their own stories and show exactly how they crafted a particular aspect of it - the style, the theme, the characters, the plot, the setting, or the point of view. A dozen of today's leading science fiction writers provide an inside look at how their craft is accomplished. An invaluable and delightful tool for anyone who writes, "Paragons" includes advice from Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, James Patrick Kelly, Karen Joy Fowler, Greg Bear, and seven others. Contents: Introduction: To the Reader (Paragons) (1996) • essay by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin Wilson] Plot: The Tangled Web (1996) • essay by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin Wilson] The Price of Oranges (1989) / novelette by Nancy Kress One Damn Thing After Another (1996) • essay by Nancy Kress Our Neural Chernobyl (1988) / short story by Bruce Sterling About "Our Neural Chernobyl" (1996) • essay by Bruce Sterling Monsters (1992) / novelette by James Patrick Kelly Making Monsters (1996) • essay by James Patrick Kelly Character: The Determinant of Incident (1996) • essay by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin Wilson] Sisters (1989) / novelette by Greg Bear Characters Great and Small in SF: "Sisters" (1996) • essay by Greg Bear Rachel in Love (1987) / novelette by Pat Murphy Imaginary Friends (1996) • essay by Pat Murphy Setting: A Local Habitation and a Name (1996) • essay by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin Wilson] Glacier (1988) / novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson The Psychic Landscape (1996) • essay by Kim Stanley Robinson Beast of the Heartland (1992) / novelette by Lucius Shepard God Is in the Details (1996) • essay by Lucius Shepard Theme: To Mean Intensely (1996) • essay by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin Wilson] Lily Red (1988) / short story by Karen Joy Fowler Once More, with Meaning (1996) • essay by Karen Joy Fowler Feedback (1993) / novelette by Joe Haldeman Point of View (1996) • essay by Joe Haldeman Point of View: Who's Minding the Store? (1996) • essay by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin Wilson] Buddha Nostril Bird (1990) / novelette by John Kessel Uncle Henry, Uncle Zorp, and Crazy Cousin Bingo (1996) • essay by John Kessel Style: The Dress of Thought (1996) • essay by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin Wilson] Pretty Boy Crossover (1986) / short story by Pat Cadigan The S Word (1996) • essay by Pat Cadigan Fair Game (1986) / novelette by Howard Waldrop Iceberg, Goldberg, It's All the Same to Me.... (1996) • essay by Howard Waldrop Appendix: A Workshop Lexicon (1990) • essay by Bruce Sterling