fiction

The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.

Offers guidance on how to write popular fiction, featuring tips on how to choose a genre and set writing goals, covering characterization, plot and scene structure, story planning, openings, writing prose and dialogue, pacing, rewriting, and self-editing, and detailing the process of submitting a manuscript and getting it published. Includes definitions of various genres.

An anthology of forty-six science-fiction stories drawn from throughout one hundred years of the genre, from its birth in the 1890s through the 1990s.

Offers advice for fiction writers on how to bridge the gap between the story in their heads and the one that appears on the page, identifying the specific problems associated with beginnings, middles, and endings, and discussing possible solutions to those dilemmas.

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

Contains profiles of thirteen novels, each including an introduction to the story and its author, a plot summary, descriptions of characters, analysis of themes and style, discussion of historical context, a critical overview, and other related information.

Contains profiles of fourteen novels, each including an introduction to the story and its author, a plot summary, descriptions of characters, analysis of themes and style, discussion of historical context, a critical overview, and other related information.