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Inventing Reality: A Guide to Writing Science Fiction
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Inventing Reality: A Guide to Writing Science Fiction
Glossary
A
- Absent-minded professor → Absent-minded professor
- Active voice → Active voice
- Antagonist → Antagonist
- As You Know Syndrome → As You Know Syndrome
B
C
- Character → Character
- Challenge of the unknown → Challenge of the unknown
- Chekhov's gun → Chekhov's gun
- Cliche → Cliche
- Climax → Climax
- Commas → Commas
- Complication → Complication
- Complications → Complications
- Conclusion → Conclusion
- Conflict → Conflict
- Counterthrust → Counterthrust
D
- Dark moment → Dark moment
- Denouement → Denouement
- Description → Description
- Detached autobiography → Detached autobiography
- Dialogue → Dialogue
- Diction → Diction
- Dystopia → Dystopia
E
- Easter egg → Easter egg
- Elements of fiction → Elements of fiction
- Emotional disturbance → Emotional disturbance
- Ending → Ending
- End marks → End marks
- Evils of duality → Evils of duality
- Exposition → Exposition
- Expository lump → Expository lump
F
- Falling action → Falling action
- False ending → False ending
- Fantasy → Fantasy
- Fictional dream → Fictional dream
- Final obstacle → Final obstacle
- First-person limited → First-person limited
- First-person objective → First-person objective
- Five senses
- Focus character → Focus character
G
- Get-it-in-the-mail syndrome → Get-it-in-the-mail syndrome
- Gobbets → Gobbets
- Grabber → Grabber
- Grouper effect → Grouper effect
H
- Heinlein's Rules → Heinlein's Rules
- Hero → Hero
- Heterotopia → Heterotopia
- Horror → Horror
- Hyphens → Hyphens
I
- Inciting incident → Inciting incident
- Info dump → Info dump
- In media res → In media res
- Invisible words → Invisible words
J
K
L
M
- Macguffin → Macguffin
- Maid-and-butler dialogue → Maid-and-butler dialogue
- Main character → Main character
- Major characters → Major characters
- Manuscript basics → Manuscript basics
- Manuscript editors → Manuscript editors
- Man vs. God(s) → Man vs. God(s)
- Man vs. himself → Man vs. himself
- Man vs. man → Man vs. man
- Man vs. nature → Man vs. nature
- Man vs. society → Man vs. society
- Markets → Markets
- Metaphor → Metaphor
- Minor character → Minor character
- Moral affirmation → Moral affirmation
- Moral compatability → Moral compatability
- Moral order → Moral order
N
- Narrative drive → Narrative drive
- Narrative hook → Narrative hook
- Narrator → Narrator
- Novelettes → Novelettes
- Novellas → Novellas
- Novels → Novels
- Novum → Novum
- Nulls → Nulls
O
- Opening lines → Opening lines
- Organ music → Organ music
- Out-of-whack event → Out-of-whack event
- Outopia → Outopia
P
- Pace → Pace
- Parts of a plot → Parts of a plot
- Passive voice → Passive voice
- Past tense → Past tense
- Periods → Periods
- Place → Place
- Planting → Planting
- Plot → Plot
- Plot coupons → Plot coupons
- Point of view → Point of view
- Present tense → Present tense
- Project bible → Project bible
- Protagonist → Protagonist
Q
R
- Reaction shot → Reaction shot
- Rear-view mirror description → Rear-view mirror description
- Redshirt → Redshirt
- Referents → Referents
- Repetition → Repetition
- Resolution → Resolution
- Reversal → Reversal
- Reverse gobbet → Reverse gobbet
- Rhinoceros in the room → Rhinoceros in the room
- Rising action → Rising action
- Ritual ending → Ritual ending
S
- Science fiction → Science fiction
- Self-indulgent digression → Self-indulgent digression
- Semi-colons → Semi-colons
- Sense of wonder → Sense of wonder
- Setting → Setting
- Short stories → Short stories
- Show → Show
- Sight → Sight
- Smell → Smell
- Sound → Sound
- Space opera → Space opera
- Space western → Space western
- Spell check → Spell check
- Stakes → Stakes
- Stapledon → Stapledon
- Stock character → Stock character
- Story clock → Story clock
- Style → Style
- Subgenre → Subgenre
- Symbolism → Symbolism
T
- Taste → Taste
- Tell → Tell
- Temporary triumph → Temporary triumph
- Tension → Tension
- Theme → Theme
- Thickening → Thickening
- Third-person limited → Third-person limited
- Third-person omniscient → Third-person omniscient
- Thrust → Thrust
- Ticking clock → Ticking clock
- Tight writing → Tight writing
- Time → Time
- Titles → Titles
- Touch → Touch
- Travel time → Travel time
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
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