Kilian, Crawford

Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy (Writing Series) (Writing Series)

* Develop believable fantasy worlds
* Challenge your readers' imaginations
* Practical techniques you can apply today
* Written by a successful author of SF and fantasy novels

Are you struggling to get started on your science fiction or fantasy novel? Stuck at chapter two or need a fresh approach? Find new direction and inspiration with this unique guide to creating original and convincing stories. Written by a successful author of more than ten science fiction and fantasy novels, Writing Science and Fantasy takes an in-depth look at these two best-selling genres.

Kilian delves into the origins and conventions of science fiction and fantasy and goes over the many subgenres, including nanotechnology, space opera, and sword and sorcery. He forces you to ask yourself crucial questions about your own novel, and also offers practical advice on how to prepare and market your manuscript to publishers, editors, and agents. With this book as a guide, both novice and experienced writers can learn how to make their work both a literary and financial success. Learn about:

* Constructing a scene
* Showing versus telling
* Avoiding clichés
* Developing good writing and research habits
* Creating plausible fantasy worlds
* Using symbolism and imagery effectively

Highlights of the CD:
* Ten steps for pre-editing
* Exercises on character and dialog
* Scores of links to relevant websites

ROGUE EMPEROR (A Novel of the Chronoplane Wars)

A ground-breaking page turner in the realm of speculative Science Fiction. The novel depicts the Chronoplane Wars, a battle between the 21st Century against the 1st for the Roman Empire.

The Empire of Time: Writings of Lenin, Dialectics and Evolutionism (Kilian, Crawford, Chronoplane Wars Trilogy.)

Jerry Pierce's new assignment...preventing Earth's destruction...will be a challenge even for this most experienced of Intertemporal Agents. Especially since he's now programmed to kill.

Lifter

Wonders, Inc.

Redmagic (Del Rey Books)

BLOODMAGIC
The wizard Calindor and his bride had journeyed far from home, studying dragons, magic, and various subjects appropriate to those newly wed. But their voyage of discovery ended abruptly when a sea monster rose up out of the salty deep and dropped a strange, red-haired girl onto the deck of their boat.
The girl was a refugee, fleeing conquering armies from the desert southland. Thus did Calindor's people first learn of the Exteca invaders, a force that was proving unstoppable. Their soldiers were efficient and totally dedicated. Mammoth, tusked beasts bore them into battle. And their magicians wielded a daunting magic, one that drew directly on the scalding power of living blood.
The Exteca coveted the cool and fertile northern lands, and their Gods thirsted for the taste of foreign souls. Calindor's greenmagic could not turn back the tide. And the enemy empire would stop at nothing--to seize his powers for their own!

Eyas: Writings of Lenin, Dialectics and Evolutionism

A ground-breaking page turner in the realm of speculative science fiction by Crawford Kilian.

A nameless newborn is named Eyas by the Seagoddess. She spared his life and gave him understanding, but Earth and sky would eventually shatter as a result of this New Year's Day in the Year of Freedom 242 at Gathering Cove.

Greenmagic (Del Rey Books)

His father was the king. His mother was a slave. Dheribi thought of himself as an outsider -- more than a servant, less than a prince -- until the night he fought to protect a slave girl from a drunken guardsman. Then he learned what it was to be truly an outcast.
He won the fight -- but he had killed a noble, and the penalty was slavery. But before the king passed sentence, he promised Dheribi that if he helped to overthrow the rival city where he would be sold, the king would pardon him and bring him home.
Dheribi's mother made a different promise. The magic of her mountain people was Dheribi's birthright. She swore that if he learned to harness the power within him, he could free all their people -- and the land itself!
So the slave-prince began the perilous quest to cast down his father's enemies and learn the ways of wizards . . . .

Gryphon

A ground-breaking page turner in the realm of speculative science fiction by Crawford Kilian.

What can a twenty-five-year-old with a spaceship do in a Solar System invaded by Gryphons? Freedom for Alex Macintosh was meaningless.

Tsunami: Writings of Lenin, Dialectics and Evolutionism

A ground-breaking page turner in the realm of speculative science fiction by Crawford Kilian.

For San Francisco, a battleground in the wake of a monstrous tidal wave, scientists Don and Kirstie Kennard are the only hope...as long as the tsunami does not come again.