Publication: The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Publication: The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & FantasyPublication Record # 306978
Authors: Orson Scott Card, Editors of Writer's Digest
Date: 2010-00-00
ISBN: 978-1-58297-609-9 [1-58297-609-0]
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Price:
$24.99^?$: US dollar
Pages: 422
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: OMNIBUS
Notes:
- First printing per number line ("5 4 3 2 1")
- Date per date line ("14 13 12 11 10")
- This publication is a hardcover, but it bound like a binder (rings).
- This publication consists of an "omnibus" of two previously published works:
  - Orson Scott Card's How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
  - Editors of Writer's Digest's The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference
- The two works each have their own table of contents and introduction.
- Publication contains a number of illustrations, but they do not illustrate written speculative fiction content so have not been listed (i.e. they are illustrations of historical armor, buildings, tools, etc.)
- "Andrew P. Miller" is how the essays on p299 and p317 are credited, but the about the authors lists him as "P. Andrew Miller"
External IDs:
- LCCN: 2009027150

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Omnibus Title: The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy • omnibus by Orson Scott Card and Editors of Writer's Digest

Contents (view Concise Listing)

1 • Introduction (How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy) • essay by Terry Brooks
3 • How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy • (1990) • nonfiction by Orson Scott Card
140 • The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference: An Indispensable Compendium of Myth and Magic • (1998) • nonfiction by David H. Borcherding [as by Editors of Writer's Digest]
141 • Introduction (The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference) • (1998) • essay by Terry Brooks
145 • Traditional Fantasy Cultures • (1998) • essay by Michael J. Varhola
171 • World Cultures • (1998) • essay by Michael J. Varhola
205 • Magic • (1998) • essay by Allan Maurer and Renee Wright
244 • Witchcraft and Pagan Paths • (1998) • essay by Allan Maurer and Renee Wright
276 • Commerce, Trade, and Law in Contemporary Fantasy • (1998) • essay by Sherrilyn Kenyon
299 • Fantasy Races • (1998) • essay by Daniel Clark and P. Andrew Miller [as by Daniel Clark and Andrew P. Miller]
317 • Creatures of Myth and Legend • (1998) • essay by Daniel Clark and P. Andrew Miller [as by Daniel Clark and Andrew P. Miller]
337 • Dress and Costume • (1998) • essay by Sherrilyn Kenyon
351 • Arms, Armor, and Armies • (1998) • essay by Michael J. Varhola
381 • Anatomy of a Castle • (1998) • essay by Michael J. Varhola

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