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Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Adam Roberts

informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Hard to go wrong reading, whether getting into writing or already considering yourself a writer. Many excellent points made.

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Excellent series of stories with different depths and intellectual writing, Chiang feels like he writes always with purpose and albeit I found some of the stories in this anthology quite safe and lacking a little substance I wished for; when he goes all out on the story, it really packs a punch. Glad to have found this thanks to being required reading for university.