The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction

The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction
Title The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction PDF eBook
Author David Sergeant
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 239
Release 2022-12-31
Genre Art
ISBN 1009279882

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Explores contemporary fiction set in the near future to shed new light on our culture's relationship to the Anthropocene.

Writing 21st Century Fiction

Writing 21st Century Fiction
Title Writing 21st Century Fiction PDF eBook
Author Donald Maass
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2012-10-16
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1599634007

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Capture the minds, hearts, and imaginations of 21st century readers! Whether you're a commercial storyteller or a literary novelist, whether your goal is to write a best-selling novel or captivate readers with a satisfying, beautifully written story, the key to success is the same: high-impact fiction. Writing 21st Century Fiction will help you write a novel for today's readers and market, filled with rich characters, compelling plots, and resonant themes. Author and literary agent Donald Maass shows you how to: • Create fiction that transcends genre, conjures characters who look and feel more "real" than real people, and shows readers the work around them in new ways. • Infuse every page with an electric current of emotional appeal and micro-tension. • Harness the power of parallels, symbols, metaphors, and more to illuminate your novel in a lasting way. • Develop a personalized method of writing that works for you. With an arsenal of thought-provoking prompts and questions, plus plenty of examples from best-selling titles, Writing 21st Century Fiction will strip away your preconceived notions about writing in today's world and give you the essential tools you need to create fiction that will leave both readers and critics in awe.

The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
Title The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction PDF eBook
Author Joshua Miller
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 347
Release 2021-09-23
Genre History
ISBN 1108838278

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This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.

Then We Came to the End

Then We Came to the End
Title Then We Came to the End PDF eBook
Author Joshua Ferris
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 282
Release 2007-03-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0759572283

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Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is "as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent." (TIME) No one knows us in quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly acclaimed first novel is family at its best and worst, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells an emotionally true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment—the one we pretend is normal five days a week. One of the Best Books of the Year Boston Globe * Christian Science Monitor * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Time magazine * Salon

The Steerswoman

The Steerswoman
Title The Steerswoman PDF eBook
Author Rosemary Kirstein
Publisher Rosemary Kirstein
Pages 262
Release 2019-04-12
Genre
ISBN 9780991354689

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman's knowledge is shared with any who request it; no steerswoman may refuse a question, and no steerswoman may answer with anything but the truth.And if she asks, you must answer. It is the other side of tradition's contract -- and if you refuse the question, or lie, no steerswoman will ever again answer even your most casual question.And so, the steerswomen - always seeking, always investigating - have gathered more and more knowledge about the world they travel, and they share that knowledge freelyUntil the day that the steerswoman Rowan begins asking innocent questions about one small, lovely, inexplicable object...Her discoveries grow stranger and deeper, and more dangerous, until suddenly she finds she must flee or fight for her life. Or worse -- lie.Because one kind of knowledge has always been denied the the steerswomen: Magic."If you haven't read Kirstein's Steerswoman books I envy you the chance to read them now for the first time.... I think they have a very good claim to be my favorite thing still being written. [...] If you like science, and if you like watching someone work out mysteries, and if you like detailed weird alien worlds and human cultures, if really good prose appeals... you're really in luck." - Jo Walton, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner, author of Among Others and Farthing."[Kirstein] walks the tightrope between fantasy and science fiction with precision and grace... [her] compassion for even minor characters is evident on every page, and her prose is measured and alluring without being overworked." -- Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo, in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010

The Global Novel

The Global Novel
Title The Global Novel PDF eBook
Author Adam Kirsch
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780997722901

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"Illuminating." - The New York Times Book Review Named one of "Ten Books to Read this April" by the BBC What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization? In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century's best-known writers--including Orhan Pamuk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mohsin Hamid, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Roberto Bolano, Elena Ferrante, and Michel Houellebecq. They are employing a way of imagining the world that sees different places and peoples as intimately connected. From climate change and sex trafficking to religious fundamentalism and genetic engineering, today's novelists use 21st-century subjects to address the perennial concerns of fiction, like morality, society, and love. The global novel is not the bland, deracinated, commercial product that many critics of world literature have accused it of being, but rather finds a way to renew the writer's ancient privilege of examining what it means to be human.

21st-Century Novel

21st-Century Novel
Title 21st-Century Novel PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Bastable
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 327
Release 2014-07-03
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0748698353

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This book is in part an anthology of the best of accounts of the World Writers Conference and also an overview of the lively wide-ranging global debate that the authors' views engendered among the many writers who took part.