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April 4, 2021

Storytelling: A Study in Opposites

Craft Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, final image, Inception, opening image, opposites, Save the Cat!, story structure, storytelling, The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet

Good story structure boils down to a series of opposites, or dichotomies. One of the most important of these is the opening image and final image in a story.

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March 16, 2021

Books 11-20: A Ranking

Rankings 1984, Alfred Bester, Big Brother, censorship, doublethink, dystopia, Espers, Fahrenheit 451, Farmer in the Sky, Foundation, George Orwell, I Robot, Isaac Asimov, justice, mass media, overexposition, penal system, precrime, psychohistory, Ray Bradbury, Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein, Space Cadet, The Demolished Man, The Martian Chronicles, The Three Laws of Robotics, Thought Police, utopia, worldbuilding

My ranking of books 11-20 on my list. The best and worst might not be what you think.

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January 4, 2019

Neil Gaiman on Reading, Writing, and Science Fiction

Craft books, Fahrenheit 451, Neil Gaiman, novel writing, Ray Bradbury, science fiction, speculative fiction

eil Gaiman’s beautiful words on books, stories, and speculative fiction are worth reading.

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Fahrenheit 451

Storytelling: A Study in Opposites

Books 11-20: A Ranking

Neil Gaiman on Reading, Writing, and Science Fiction

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