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Richard Morgan (at the moment) he has managed to revitalise the science fiction genre single-handed, breathe a new direction in edgy-writing (especially with his 'Market Forces') and has put respect back into the British science fiction school which had been sadly lacking.

Has not anyone heard of tropes and medium? This is along the lines of what do you prefer a book or a film? Each medium has its own tropes and powers of expression and also its own limitations. The validity of each is found in the fact that it is suited to the storyline it depicts and...

Have you done it before? Unless you're going to quote verbatim something you heard or picked up whatever you do is being done by you and you will do it differently to anyone else who is not you. Publishers keep asking for "fresh voices" which give them what they have published already (hence...

I hope we are all adults here If we can't be adults here then what is all this writing all about? Shall we start submitting creative work that fits a pre-detetermined template?!!!!!!!!

That's an easy one. There is research which gives facts on this. The Book Cover draws people to pick the book up off the shelf not buy it. They then look at the Blurb on the back if that is not ok they put it back. After the verb they look at the first chapter. A staggering 88% of would be...

I have been writing for 21 years I've done non-fiction, ghost-written fiction, covered newspaper features and, at one time, broke a financial story ahead of a major run on gold making me look like a really knowledgeable finance writer when it was just fluke (and I can be totally honest here...

And Terry Pratchet: It seems that you need to have good connections to the publisher (to get published at all!!!). The next thing is the Public Relations (see Paolini, above - he did a LOT of the work with the PR!). The PR will work provided that you are GOOD (or at least that people like...

The main protagonist is Lucifer You know of course the Milton's book (or epic poem) came for criticism because it was so sympathetic to Satan? It has spawned a debate, which goes on to our days, about whether Satan is the 'Fall Guy' to use some vernacular in God's complex game and therefore...

Have you read The Hunger? try The Hunger by Whitley Strieber

It's good and -right now- obscure Try The Shade by Thomas Hunt.

Hi, why not try 'The Shade' at fantasynovel.co.uk - there is a whole chapter you can read online to see if you like it.

Gibson's earliest Gibson was also great in Neuromancer and Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive - White Light was the only other book he wrote before he started to lose his focus and be overtaken by the tech wave he had helped visualise. Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End was hard-hitting...

Hi. I am an author and I have, after some weeks of vaccilating, since I published my book designed to get back to the real world and do some promoting and participating. I hope to be able to contribute meaningfully to this forum.