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A Method For Madness, is due Real Soon Now.
Gerrold's other books include Moonstar Odyssey, En-
emy Mine (a novelization), Chess With A Dragon, The
Voyage of the Star Wolf, The Middle of Nowhere, Under
The Eye of God, A Covenant of Justice, and Fatal Distrac-
tions. The latter effort is a history of shareware computer
games, with an accompanying CD-ROM of software.
Gerrold's novellette, The Martian Child, was published
in the September, 1994, issue of The Magazine of Fantasy
& Science Fiction. In 1995, it won the Nebula for best
novelette of the year. Two months later, the story won the
Locus Readership Poll, and two months after that the Hugo
award, completing a rare sweep of science fiction's "triple
crown."
David and and his son Scan live in California with three
neurotic dogs and an assortment of spoiled cats.
 Table of Contents
Start Here...................................................................... i
The Literature of Imagination.......................................... 7
Inventing Wonder .......................................................... 11
If—The Most Powerful Word .........................................13
Science.......................................................................... 15
Science Fiction.............................................................. 18
...and Fantasy...............................................................22
What Is a Story?............................................................30
A Story Is... ..................................................................33
Crises and Challenges ....................................................36
The Hero ......................................................................39
Who Is This Person? ......................................................45
Setting the Stage ............................................................ 49
To Build a World...........................................................52
Detailing the World........................................................ 58
Building Aliens.............................................................. 66
Believability...................................................................71
Fantasy Worlds..............................................................76
Complications............................................................... 88
Structure, Structure, Structure!.....................:.................94
Transformation............................................................101
Theme..........................................................................104
Style.............................................................................107
First Lines ....................................................................no
Last Lines.....................................................................lie
Punch Lines..................................................................121
Write From Inside.........................................................128
Sex Scenes....................................................................138
Love Scenes..................................................................148
Sentences......................................................................162
Simile...........................................................................164
Metaphor.....................................................................166
Adjectives and Adverbs................................................. 168