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    Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
    Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
    Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
    Audiobook13 hours

    Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

    Written by Jeff VanderMeer

    Narrated by Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby and Adam Verner

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    About this audiobook

    Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. The book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, and Karen Joy Fowler.

    For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 28, 2020
    ISBN9781978621633
    Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
    Author

    Jeff VanderMeer

    Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year’s-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

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