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Tables of Contents for Conceiving the Heavens
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
INTRODUCTION A Brief Defense of Science Fiction, or Why Does Someone Who Went to Harvard Write This Stuff Anyway?
v
PART ONE Writing as Craft
3
142
CHAPTER ONE Technical Basics
3
10
CHAPTER TWO The Bureau in Schenectady
13
14
INTERLUDE Rob Gates's and Michael Cornett's Title Exercise
25
2
CHAPTER THREE Getting Started: World Building 101
27
12
CHAPTER FOUR World Building 102: Social Settings
39
12
CHAPTER FIVE Language and Setting
51
14
CHAPTER SIX Peopling Your Worlds
65
20
CHAPTER SEVEN Research
85
17
CHAPTER EIGHT Putting It All Together
102
19
INTERLUDE Shapeshifting
119
2
CHAPTER NINE Tools of the Trade
121
9
CHAPTER TEN Moving On
130
15
PART TWO Writing as Profession
145
44
CHAPTER ELEVEN Starting Out
145
19
CHAPTER TWELVE Agents and Publishers
164
11
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Moving On
175
14
A GLOSSARY OF SCIENCE FICTION TERMS
189
6
WORKS CITED
195