Long before interplanetary exploration and a certain rock group, Robert A. Heinlein wrote this science fiction classic (Random, 1977). Mischievous teen twins Castor and Pollux Stone set the story in motion with a plan to make their fortune as space traders. Soon they are waving goodbye to their home on the Earth's moon and they're headed for Mars with their parents, sister, younger brother, and grandmother. The Stones are an intelligent, strong-willed clan, so there are squabbles during their months of weightless flight...
"The Fiction Writer's Toolkit:
A Guide to Writing Novels and Getting Published" (2001) (Writer's Collection)
Неплохая книга для желающих попробовать себя в писательском деле, ясно и просто написанная. Некоторые советы по композиции произведения подойдут и тем, кто готовится к письменной части международных экзаменов.
"Bob Mayer's "The Fiction Writer's Toolkit" is probably one of the best novel writing books I've read. Other books I've read have tried to focus too heavily on the technical aspects of writing and not so much on the steps and concepts. What makes this book so easy to read is that everything is broken down into individual "tools" that, when read in order, will walk you through the entire novel writing process from beginning to end. [...]
I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn the process behind writing a novel or wanting to improve their current skills".
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Product Description
This book argues that Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past had a profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.
It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks in order to provide a framework for examining her response to the literary past. It presents chronological studies of eight novels, exploring how Woolf's intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on Woolf's varied and intricate use of literary allusions; examines ways in which Woolf revisited and revised plots and tropes from earlier fiction; and looks at how she used parody as a means both of critical comment and homage.
Key Features
* The first book-length study of intertextuality in Virginia Woolf's novels
* Offers a challenging and provocative new perspective on Woolf's art as a novelist
* Develops detailed close readings offering fresh insights into individual works
* Presents complex ideas in a lucid and accessible fashion.
Oryx and Crake is a novel with dystopian elements by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Like The Handmaid's Tale, the book is often categorized as science fiction novel, but Atwood herself prefers to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she associates with the novel form. Oryx and Crake was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2003 and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction that same year.
Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood
