Science Story Writing

Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts, to interpret events in our newspapers and social media. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human.

Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the 17th century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes 'The Contract' and 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity'.

DO YOU HAVE A GREAT IDEA FOR A STORY— But NO CLUE How to Turn It Into a Novel? START YOUR STORY RIGHT takes your raw story concept from a vague idea to something ready to develop into a novel just the way established writers do. With seven easy questions and a bit of additional knowledge, you'll learn how to delve into your story idea to find its essence—so you can use that essence as you write your novel. You'll understand how to identify protagonists, antagonists, define the conflict, and even establish your story's theme. And you'll do all this with seven straightforward questions. ...

From award-winning and best-selling fantasy author Adron J. Smitley comes On Writing Well: a collection of teaching articles advising everything plot, character creation and relationships, flaws and virtues, theme and premise, logline construction, productive writing and editing, self-publishing, and detailed explanations into essential dramatic story structure architecture that will leave never a dull moment in your next great novel regardless the genre. Guiding you with proven techniques from first draft to finished manuscript, On Writing Well provides both novice and veteran writers a ...

From Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson to Alive! and Adrift, tales of survival have captivated readers. Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present: their moral dilemmas, their personalities, and their influence on society, literature, and art.

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: Moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that blockbusters require. That's a huge mistake, says Randy Olson: Hollywood has a lot to teach scientists about how to tell a story - and, ultimately, how to do science better. With Houston, We Have a Narrative, he lays out a stunningly simple method for turning the dull into the dramatic.

Great storytelling is making listeners care about your characters, the choices they make, and what happens to them. It's making your audience feel the tension and emotion of a situation right alongside your protagonist. And to tell a damn fine story, you need to understand why and how that caring happens. Using a mix of personal stories, pop fiction examples, and traditional storytelling terms, New York Times best-selling author Chuck Wendig will help you internalize the feel of powerful storytelling.

Lo que hacemos los seres humanos es construir. Desde ese instante eléctrico en el que ponemos un pie en el suelo por primera vez pero luego resulta que debajo del pie hay una pieza de Lego que habíamos tirado antes desde la cuna, y entonces la cogemos y la encajamos con otra. Sí, construimos. Construimos una vida, construimos un amor, construimos familias, casas, carreteras, ciudades, aeropuertos y naves espaciales. Transformamos lugares en lugares nuevos. A veces son cambios mundanos. A veces son asombrosos. Y los hechos asombrosos se convierten en historias.

This is a peek into various corners of my attic. The memories are piled up in heaps. Have a rummage through.

A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light. Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is an audiobook that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of the All We Can Save climate initiative, compiles the best science and nature writing of the year.

"How to Write a Short Cyberpunk Story: A Comprehensive Guide to Short Cyberpunk Fiction Writing" will take you on a captivating journey into the world of Cyberpunk fiction. This comprehensive guidebook provides aspiring writers with an in-depth examination of the genre, its origins, and the distinguishing elements that make it so appealing. Learn how to create dystopian landscapes and complex characters, how to seamlessly integrate technology into your story, and how to incorporate transhumanism and societal evolution themes. Our step-by-step approach simplifies the writing process by ...

This riveting collection of adventure writing includes the work of The Perfect Storm author, Sebastian Junger. Listen as men and women battle the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting sharks, savage storms, rogue waves, mountainous icebergs, starvation, and their own fear and suffering.

At first it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voicemail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for the Guardian, knew it didn't add up. He began to investigate and ended up exposing a world of crime and cover-up, of fear and favor--the long shadow of Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Collected here are the stories, poems, and religious writings that preceded and helped form the science fiction and fantasy genres. The collection explores the key imaginative roots and their later literary permutations. The author list alone reads like a literary who’s who and includes many writers not primarily known for their forays into the fantastic. Organized by topic rather than simple chronology, this volume allows the listener to trace the history of robots, aliens, and apocalypses up to some of their most recent manifestations.

From the peak of Jeremy Corbyn's popularity and the shock hung parliament of 2017 to Labour's humbling in 2019 and the election of Keir Starmer, Left Out draws on unrivalled access throughout the party and to both leaders' inner circles to provide a blistering narrative exposé of the Labour Party during one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in its history. It reveals a party riven by factionalism and at war over ideology, then incapacitated by crisis and indecision.

Fans of the YA fantasy series The Network Series can now explore the world of Alkarra with this enthralling new short-story collection. The compilation includes 10 never-before-heard adventures gleaned from events throughout The Network Series. Short stories from The Network Series offers tales from many beloved characters, including Mildred, Marten, Derek, Angelina, Hazel, Camille, and Merrick.

The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around which many human activities are organized. But is there a third natural cycle of importance for us humans? Nature's Third Cycle discusses the fascinating science behind the sunspot cycle, and gives an insider's perspective of this cutting-edge scientific research from one of the leaders of the field.

On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. For months Kantor and Twohey had been having confidential discussions with top actresses, former Weinstein employees and other sources, learning of disturbing, long-buried allegations. The journalists meticulously picked their way through a web of decades-old secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements, pressed some of the most famous women in the world to risk going on the record.

Undead Tales: Fifteen Thrilling Zombie Stories is the audio version of the new zombie anthology, published by the best-selling authors, J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon. Get it now and start listening!