Tag: Fiction

January 14, 2024

Writing Backwards Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon

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Free Download Alexander Manshel, "Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon "
English | ISBN: 0231211279 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades critical acclaim and attention have fixated on historical fiction. This shift is particularly dramatic for writers of color. Even as the literary canon has become more diverse, cultural institutions have celebrated Black, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous novelists almost exclusively for their historical fiction.

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January 14, 2024

Jews in Popular Science Fiction Marginalized in the Mainstream

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Free Download Valerie Estelle Frankel San Jose City College, "Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream "
English | ISBN: 1666901458 | 2022 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 516 KB + 2 MB
This book analyzes Jewish tropes in popular science fiction ranging from Star Trek and Marvel to other prominent franchises. Sometimes the representation is subtle and thought-provoking; other times, it is limited to cliché and oversimplification of characters. The chapters in this collection examine the representation of Jewish characters in films and franchises including Superman, Lord of the Rings, The Mandalorian, The Twilight Zone, and more to shed light on the broad range of representations of the Jewish experience in popular science fiction and fantasy.

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January 13, 2024

The Fiction Formula The New Rules of Self-Publishing Success [Audiobook]

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Free Download Sean M. Platt, Johnny Truant (Author, Narrator), "The Fiction Formula: The New Rules of Self-Publishing Success"
English | ASIN: B08PCCXCQF | 2020 | M4B@64 kbps | ~09:26:00 | 277 MB
All you need to know to be a full-time storyteller is in this book.
Johnny Truant and Sean M. Platt – owners of the Sterling & Stone Story Studio and authors of the how-to-publish cornerstone Write. Publish. Repeat – have spent the last eight years learning the ins and outs of professional storytelling. Between just the two of them, they’ve written 100 books. The studio as a whole, in 2020 alone, will publish nearly 200 more.
To write and publish that much quality, reader-pleasing fiction, you can’t just wing it. You need a formula to keep things streamlined and on-target. With a formula, you can be sure you’re writing books that will sell, that you’re enjoying writing them, and that you are doing so without writer’s block. When you use the fiction formula, your success becomes predictable – not a matter of luck.

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January 11, 2024

Alienist (Gerald Knave Science Fiction Novels)

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Free Download Laurence M. Janifer, "Alienist (Gerald Knave Science Fiction Novels)"
English | 2014 | pages: 223 | ISBN: 1587155001 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Space-four travel was supposed to be safe. Accidents were far between and only happened to strangers, people you never heard of. That’s what Gerald Knave thought until he found himself lost in an unknown part of the galaxy with no way to get home…

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