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more about #ya more comments → Lassus: These people should worry about writing well as opposed to whether or not they can classify their works in a way to get an agent. I may be naive, but... more » haseoreo: I don't think it's that hard to categorize a novel, honestly. I often think of things in broad terms like fantasy, science fiction, fiction, or non f... more » Faustroll: I'm writing a "steampunk" novel that would classify as alternate history and near future, plus it has robots and kaiju. My first book is a gothic fa... more » ManchuCandidate: Nothing worse that lit snobs pretending to write genre as lit. This might explain why there seems to be more than a few SF authors who don't get skie... more » Bill-Lee: In my college writing courses, my instructors pointed out that classifying your work by genre can help keep you focused. Many novels, stories, comics,... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: "Fiction." There, see? So easy! more » Rasselas: Nothing good can come of "other." E.g.: "Is this gun for hunting, home protection, or 'other'?" "Other." more » Grey_Area: It's a cookbook! THEY'RE ALL COOKBOOKS!! more » Rocketknight: It bother the hell out of me that the novel is called "All You Need is Kill". That makes no god damn sense. How about "All You Need is the Kill" or "A... more » unigon: Yoshitoshi Abe didn't really do the character design for the anime...he just drew the cover for the original novel. If you compare Misaki from the nov... more » Grey_Area: In other Non-English language SF news: the July issue of Locus has some articles about the state of the genre in Columbia and China. There is also a r... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: BTW, "the odds are good, but the goods are odd" is not anyone in particular's invention -- it's just one of those phrases that have been around foreve... more » goldfarb: sonds interesting....thanks Grey! oh and those two pictures in the middle are very very ugly book covers... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: The Larch. The. Larch. The. Larch. more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I liked the story in "New Space Opera" about the Martian truckers, so more of this looks good. Also, I want to be a New Celt. Sounds like I'd fit righ... more » -
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"It Causes Me Pain To Classify My Post-Apocalyptic YA Romance As Science Fiction"
How easy is it to nail down the genre of a novel you're working on? Agent Nathan Bransford polled the readers of his blog about the genres they're writing, and it turned into a free-for-all about the terror of genres. More » -
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Japanese Scifi Smackdown! Power-Armor Warriors Vs. Alien Dirt-Eaters
The last 25 years has seen a huge swell of interest by English-speaking audiences in manga, partly thanks to Viz Media. Now Viz is publishing translations of two prose novels, about alien invasion, time travel and power-armor smackdowns.
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The Brits Win the Space Race in "Empress of Mars"
In the closing years of the 23rd Century, the British Arean Company, a private corporation, establishes first human colony on Mars. How do the Brits get there first? Find out in Kage Baker's new novel.
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In "Zoë's Tale," It's Hard to Be a Teenage Messiah
Zoë's Tale, the last book in the Old Man's War sequence by John Scalzi, has just been nominated a Hugo for best novel. It deals with the harrowing complications of interstellar politics and teenage girls.
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