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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America also work as guild, informing writers on professional matters, protecting their interests, and helping them deal effectively with agents, editors ...

Writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Austin ... "I remember when my first book came out," says the darkly bearded Southard, "and my mom bought a copy of it.

It seems like many, if not most, of the big literary books of the year deal with science fiction tropes one way or the other. The one glaring exception, of course, is Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom.

The AHC collects the papers of Western fiction and poetry writers, and has a particular emphasis on Wyoming writers. Our collections also contain significant papers of modern science fiction authors.

So, in fall 2011, Stephenson launched the Hieroglyph project to rally writers to infuse science fiction with the kind of optimism that could inspire a new generation to, as he puts it, “get big ...

Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley sat down to write a ghost story and created science fiction. Women still pen the genre’s finest, exemplified by Ursula K Le Guin, who died this week. Yet so ...

Reading Hannah Kuchler’s essay on “The ‘miracle’ obesity drug” (FT Magazine, July 16) I am reminded of the late Tom Disch, who described the profession of science fiction writer as to ...