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.
Book Reviews 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.
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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