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Title: Not that great
Review: I'm glad I bought the book second-hand. It's a collection of loosely related essays dealing with writing. The problem is that they are too short to offer insight that cannot be found elsewhere, and also, as has been pointed out, the examples. I don't mind that they are the author's, but they're overlong, insufficiently dissected, and, quite frankly, unsuited to what the author is recommending. As somebody else mentioned, the sex scenes are not particularly convincing (I skipped the whole passage on the first reading, as it was excruciatingly embarrassing and boring).Buy something else: How to write science ficion and fantasy, by Orson Scott Card, or Steering the Craft by Le Guin, or any decent book about writing fiction (of which science fiction and fantasy are but sub-categories, after all)
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