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The Steampunk User's Manual
This comprehensive guide to Steampunk creations of all kinds offers inspiration and practical tips for bringing your own retro-futuristic visions to life.Whether you're a newbie to the world of Steampunk, or a long-time enthusiast of airships, goggles, and mad scientists, The Steampunk User's Manual is essential reading.
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Booklife: strategies & survival tips for the 21st century writer
\"Helps writers traverse the often difficult journey from first draft to finished product.\" Publishers Weekly\"One of the things that sets VanderMeer apart is his embrace of technology and media\" Wired.comThe world has changed, and with it the writing life. Inaddition to crafting a novel or non-fiction work, writers must nowconsider a slew of \"new media\" promotion opportunities: blogs, socialnetworks, mini-feeds, and podcasts, to name just a few. Booklifewill provide you with the strategic and tactical intel to develop yourwriting career and thrive in this new environment. It exploresquestions such as How can authors use social media and theinternet? How does the new online paradigm affect authors, readers, andthe book industry? Tips of the trade culled from 25 years of experience as a writer, reviewer, editor, publisher, agent, and blogger are shared. Booklifealso includes the feature 'How to Write a Novel in Two Months'.Whether you're a beginning, intermediate, or advanced writer,self-published, published in the independent press, or by largecommercial conglomerates, this book will be of value to you and helpyou achieve your writing goals.
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Borne
\"From the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy comes a story about two humans, and two creatures. The humans are Rachel and Wick--a scavenger and a drug dealer--both with too many secrets and fears, ready with traps to be set and sprung. The creatures are Mord and Borne --animal, perhaps plant, maybe company discard, biotech, cruel experiment, dinner, deity, or source of spare parts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Wonderbook : an illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction
\"Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also exploits the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, the book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added an additional 50 pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice that is also a stunning and inspiring object.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lost transmissions : the secret history of science fiction and fantasy
\"Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now. Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown, imagined-but-never-finished, and under-appreciated-but-influential works from those imaginative genres, as well as little-known information about well-known properties. Divided into sections on Film & TV, Literature, Art, Music, Fashion, Architecture, and Pop Culture, the book examines Jules Verne's lost novel; AfroFuturism and Space Disco; E.T.'s scary beginnings; William Gibson's never-filmed Aliens sequel; Weezer's never-made space opera; and the 8,000-page metaphysical diary of Philip K. Dick. Featuring more than 150 photos, this insightful volume will become the bible of science fiction and fantasy's most interesting and least-known chapters.\" --Amazon.com
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Lives of the monster dogs
When a race of elegant, superintelligent dogs arrives in twenty-first-century New York, they become instant celebrities, but, unable to adjust to the modern world and confronted with an incurable disease, they construct a fantastic castle and barricade themselves inside.
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Moderan
\"Welcome to Moderan, world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked with 'arsenals of fear,' earth is covered with vast sheets of plastic, and humans vie to replace more and more of their own 'soft parts' with steel machinery. What need is there for nature when trees and flowers can be pushed up through holes in the plastic? Who requires human companionship when new-metal mistresses can be ordered from the shop? But even a Stronghold master can doubt the catechism of Moderan. Wanderers, poets, and his own children pay visits, proving that another world is possible ... Originally published in science-fiction magazines in the 1960s and '70s and passionately sought by collectors, the stories have not been available in a single volume for nearly fifty years ... [Bunch's] intent was not to divert readers from the horrors of modernity but to make them face it squarely\"-- Provided by publisher.
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