Writing Speculative Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches

by Eugen Bacon

Book Overview

In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the work of other writers and theorists, to interrogate its various subgenres. Through analysis of writers such as Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling, this book scrutinises the characteristics of speculative fiction, considers the potential of writing cross genre and covers the challenges of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1352006162
• ISBN13: 9781352006162
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 8.4"