WRITING SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (viii) 264 pp. Blue boards lettered in silver on the spine. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; On the Writing of Speculativ Fiction by Robert A. Heinlein; Living the Future: You Are What You Eat by Gardner Dozois; Plotting by Isaac Asimov; Dialog by Isaac Asimov; You and Your Characters by James Patrick Kelly; Seeing Your Way to Better Stories by Stanley Schmidt; Turtles All the Way Down by Jane Yolen; Learning to Write Comedy or Why It's Impossible and How to Do It by Connie Willis; Good Writing Is Not Enough by Stanley Schmidt; The Creatrion of Imaginary Worlds: The World Builder's Handbook and Pocket Companion by Poul Anderson; The Creation of Imaginary Beings by Hal Clement; How to Build a Future by John Barnes; Building a Starfaring Age by Norman Spinrad; The Idea That Wouldn't Die by Stanley Schmidt; The Mechanics of Submission by Sheila Williams; Revisions by Isaac Asimov; New Writers by Isaac Asimov; Authors vs. Editors by Stanley Schmidt; and Market Listings by Ian Randal Strock; followed by Guidelines..