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more about #samueldelany Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: "It's a very low-key book about people who do their laundry together and help each other fold up the sheets, and one of them makes the coffee in the m... more » Geoffrey Sperl: This is great post. I think Russell hit it on the head: Who cares about labels? If a writer is a good writer then it should matter if they are produci... more » bronzeorchidsac: Son of a bitch Charlie! I seriously was going to finish an article for you guys tonight. Guess what it was about? Samuel R. Delany and Mary Doria Russ... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: "Flatliners" and "Event Horizon"? Seriously? Delaney, Catigan, Gibson, sure. But "Flatliners"? If it weren't for Baby Kiefer, who'd care to watch? more » Grey_Area: My friend thought Harrison was bonkers for this list. I like that he includes not just books and movies but comics, music, and video games. I think th... more » Hotscot: I wish there had been an "Event Horizon" sequel.. more » tammygarrison: My teacher waaaaay back in playwrighting class (back when I was young and cute) explained that plot is everything that happens in a story. The plot o... more » Loribeth215: You must have a good plot to have a good story. If the story were the body of an animal, the plot would be all the neccessary things that keep it aliv... more » ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: My take - when people criticize writing for being too "plot-driven" they're saying that the writer relies on one cheap and ill-considered twist or tur... more » IlludiumQ36ESM: i am not sure if i read this article to fast but what is the point of the Pulp Covers of Half or fully naked ladies. Were they "plot" "story" or "eye... more » Slatz_Grobnik: I think that the distinction is largely artificial and mostly due to connotative values between the terms. That said, if I had to come up with a way t... more » Inkymonkey: In my neck of the woods (a writing class where I am the sole SFFer), character-driven is some seriously boringass musings on normal people living quie... more » xenothaulus: I think of story as what's going on Right Now, and plot as what's happened and what's probably going to happen. Story is character-driven while plot i... more » corpore-metal: I think I'll go with some others have said here. A plot is like a person's skeleton. A story is the whole person that wraps around that skeleton. more » dlomax: I think that this issue might be clearer if we had everyone distinguish between story and story-line. The latter is pretty much synonymous with plot,... more » Grey_Area: The difference is really quite simple. A "plot" begins with a voiceless bilabial plosive and a "story" has twice as many vowels. Plots are hatched by ... more » Ed Grabianowski: The story is what you have before you ever set pen to paper. It's at the heart of the creative process (or maybe it IS the heart of the creative proce... more » Crash Launching: Well, I won't contribute my own answer at this point, but I will register suprised and happy interest that the past/future dichotomy you posit seems b... more » Rasselas: " 'The king died and then the queen died' is a story. 'The king died and then the queen died of grief' is a plot," according to Anthony Lane, who has ... more » strider_mt2k: Story-ng to kill someone lacks punch. more » -
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Samuel Delany Answers Your Science Fiction Questions!
Samuel R. Delany has been away from science fiction for over twenty years — and now he's coming back to it, sort of. His new novel Through The Valley Of The Nest Of Spiders is an introspective future history.
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#books
4 Authors We Wish Would Return To Science Fiction
Some of our favorite science fiction authors appear to have left SF behind, after creating stories that live with us forever. We asked Nicola Griffith, Karen Joy Fowler, Samuel R. Delany and Mary Doria Russell why they left the genre. More » -
#storytelling
What's The Difference Between Story And Plot?
People always say the story is the most important thing in good science fiction. But excessively "plot-driven" science fiction is dismissed as mindless or worse. What's the difference between story and plot anyway?
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#books
A First Stab At A Science Fiction Canon
They're ambitious, those Brits — the Guardian newspaper has been publishing a listing of 1000 books you must read, and now it includes every must-read science fiction novel. Let the canon-shredding commence! More » -
#bookreview
Samuel Delany Will Come Into Your House And Shred Your Notebooks
Samuel Delany not only helped redefine science fiction, he's one of a few SF writers who teach writing at the college level. So I was excited to see he'd written a book about writing. More » -
#martinlutherking
Martin Luther King In Science Fiction
Today's the day when we celebrate the life of visionary leader Martin Luther King, Jr. But the civil-rights legend is also an important figure in science fiction... as an influence, and an occasional character. More » -
