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Tim Powers on writing fantasy

Tim Powers

My thoughts on writing fantasy stories -- what they're made of and how they're made.

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New York in the Window -- A Few Thoughts on Endings

One of the reasons I’m not crazy about poetry readings is that you generally can’t tell when a poem has ended. The poet stands up there with a piece of paper, reading in measured tones, and there comes a pause … which goes on for several se...

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"Book One ..." Sequels and Trilogies

These days fantasy sequels and series and trilogies seem to outnumber stand-alone novels. A quick look at Amazon shows “Book One” of the Darkblade and Rivenworld and Bloodsworn series, and that was a very quick look.

It’s a natural inclina...

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Genre Mixing?

The term “Speculative fiction” seems to have been invented by Robert Heinlein. As it’s currently used, it combines science fiction and fantasy, and it expands the “SF” acronym to cover it all.

SF, in that sense, can take any genre into its...

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The Faces Beyond the Monitor -- Writers' Groups

I expect people to disagree with me on this one, and possibly convince me that I’m wrong.

Writing, to state the obvious, is a solitary activity. The writer sits alone in a room, fixated on the story at hand and how best to spill the reader...

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The Finite Number -- Rejections

Anybody who goes the traditional publishing route, whether with short stories or novels, is going to get rejections. I got my first one in1967, when I was fifteen, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. In those days F&SF printed...

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    I live in San Bernardino, California, with my wife and various cats and dogs. I've had 19 novels published, all science fiction and/or fantasy.

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