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Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists

This anthology surveys the most thought-provoking and noteworthy “non-traditional#148 short stories written by American and international writers over the past 100 years. The works collected here represent a rich, while often overlooked, tradition of stories that seem to break the rules of short fiction. These stories, by well-known writers as well as by refreshingly new voices, demonstrate a wide-range of stylistic and narrative diversity. They expand our perceptions of what constitutes a

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The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction: Volume One – First Contact (The Complete Guide to Writing Series)

Dragon Moon Press follows its highly successful Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy series with a comprehensive writer’s guide on science fiction. The book leads the writer from the pitfalls and clichÃ©s of a first story to selling and promoting a novel, and the writing life beyond. Topics in this guide range from the history of SF to alien creation, world building, space travel, and future medicine Â a perfect reference and writing guide for someone wishing to write science fiction. The C

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Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France

This book is an account of life and death in early modern France. It is an analysis of the crime stories which men and women told their judges in order to try to save themselves from the gallows. To receive a royal pardon for murder in 16th century France, a supplicant had to tell the king a story. Thousands of such stories are found in the French archives, providing evidence of the narrative skills and life conditions of peasants, artisans and the well-to-do. Many of the pardon tales are accoun

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