{"id":637,"date":"2008-03-04T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2008-02-27T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:21:40","slug":"nonfiction-essays-by-sf-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Nonfiction Essays by SF Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has a collection of nonfic essays written by SF\/F authors, available as downloads for 50 cents each.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000A0F6PE?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000A0F6PE\">Building Alternative Realities<\/A> by Robert Silverberg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During my fifty years as a science-fiction writer I&#8217;ve often ventured into the invention of alternative worlds of possibility &#8211; history that never happened, but perhaps should have &#8212; which I find opens up the sort of infinite ranges of speculative thought that have made s-f so much fun for me. In this piece I explain what the science-fiction genre of &#8220;alternative reality&#8221; is all about and show, step by step, how I went about creating the alternative world that was the basis of ROMA ETERNA, my most ambitious work in that form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a blurb for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000A0F6IQ?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000A0F6IQ\">Why I Write About Elves<\/A> by Terry Brooks, but I assume that one could be summarized as, &#8220;&#8216;Cuz they sell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/006233.html\">SF Signal<\/A> has the whole list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has a collection of nonfic essays written by SF\/F authors, available as downloads for 50 cents each. For instance, Building Alternative Realities by Robert Silverberg: During my fifty years as a science-fiction writer I&#8217;ve often ventured into the invention of alternative worlds of possibility &#8211; history that never happened, but perhaps should have &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}