John Wiley & Sons, Sachbücher, Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror for Dummies (Englisch, Rick Dakan, Ryan G. Van Cleave, ...

Foreword xvii Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started: The Basics of Story 5 Chapter 1: Taking Journeys into the Imagination 7 Chapter 2: Creating Characters 19 Chapter 3: Laying the Foundation -- The Power of Plot 41 Chapter 4: Crafting Many Worlds, Many Media 65 Part 2: Worldbuilding: Journeys to Other Worlds 79 Chapter 5: Building a World Like No Other 81 Chapter 6: Letting Your Research and Imagination Run Wild 93 Chapter 7: Showing the Explosion: Exposition That Thrills! 105 Chapter 8: This Planet Will Eat You: Worlds Are Characters, Too 117 Part 3: Science Fiction: Journeys into the Future 129 Chapter 9: Answering "What If?" 131 Chapter 10: A Spaceship for Every Occasion, an Occasion for Every Spaceship 139 Chapter 11: Encountering Aliens That Audiences Want to Know, Love, and Fear 157 Chapter 12: It's Alive! Or Is It? -- Imagining Robots and Artificial Intelligence 171 Chapter 13: Constructing Planetary Plots and Earth-Changing Stories 185 Part 4: Fantasy: Journeys into the Imagination 197 Chapter 14: Bringing Wonder to Your Story 199 Chapter 15: Worldbuilding on the Shoulders of Giants, Faeries, Dragons, and Hobbits 213 Chapter 16: Conjuring Story Magic 229 Chapter 17: Forming Really Fantastic (and Fantastically Real) Monsters 241 Part 5: Horror: Journeys into Fear 253 Chapter 18: Creating Dread, Fear, and Terror 255 Chapter 19: Fashioning Fearful Plots and Sinister Scenes 271 Chapter 20: Shaping Your Scares -- Menacing Monsters and Human Horrors 287 Chapter 21: Lurking in Every Shadow: Where Horror Resides 305 Part 6: The Journey from Writing to Publication 315 Chapter 22: Revising and Editing Like a Pro 317 Chapter 23: Getting Second Opinions: Editors, Experts, and Sensitivity Readers 331 Chapter 24: The Three Ps: Publication, Pitching, and Promotion 343 Part 7: The Part of Tens 357 Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Jump-Start a Stalled Story 359 Chapter 26: Ten Common Pitfalls in Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror 367 Chapter 27: Ten Popular Story Modes 375 Index 385.