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If your answer to every question is 42. If you can quote the three laws of Robotics. If you want to say “my precious” every time you see a gold band. Then this list is for you. We asked our 3,000 bibliomaniacs what their favorite SciFi/Fantasy novels were, and here are their top 100 answers. (1) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (2) A Game of Thrones by George R. 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels to Geek Out Over - Half Price Books Blog - HPB.com

8 Fairy Tales And Their Not-So-Happy Endings | Mental Floss by Stacy Conradt, Laurel Mills & John Green You might have noticed from an earlier post that I'm a bit of a Disney buff. This is kind of out of character for me, to be honest, because I'm not a huge fan of happily ever after. I like movie endings that are unexpected. After doing a little research, though, I realized that maybe fairy tales and I are a perfect match: those Disney endings where the prince and the princess end up blissfully married don't really happen in the original stories. To make sure kids go home happy, not horrified, Disney usually has to alter the endings.

I am your editor | Writing | Caro Clarke - writer I have been in publishing for over ten years, mostly as an editor. I am the person who accepts or rejects your manuscript. Here is how I make my decisions. I look at the envelopes I am opening as I work my way down the slush pile. Sloppy presentation is not a good sign.

One of the usual mistakes beginners make is to explain too much. How much is too much? Deciding this needs a dispassionate eye, a sense of pace, and a sense of what is really necessary for the story. Explaining too much | Writing | Caro Clarke - writer

Writers are usually inspired to write because they have a character in their heads who won't go away. The plot arises from the initial problem or desire that impels that character to act, and the narrative follows the consequences of that action to a satisfying end. It's natural to make your main characters, especially your protagonist, likeable. After all, you're probably likeable yourself. The public's appetite for anti-heroes has never been strong, for the good reason that reading about creeps and louses isn't a particularly satisfying reading experience. Readers enjoy stories about acclaim, success, or romance, because they share these with the protagonist. Loving your characters too much | Writing | Caro Clarke - writer

Names are identifiers. We're called John and Jane to tell us apart. Still, we're still reduced to saying, Jim, the guy who fixes our car, not Jim who's in Sales or having to say John the guy I golf with, not Jon my brother . If it's confusing in real life, how much more confusing is it going to be in your novel if you don't identify your characters clearly? Problems with names | Writing | Caro Clarke - writer

As an editor, I know when I am reading someone's first novel. I have nicknames for the four give-away faults beginners make: (1) Walk and Chew Gum (2) Furry Dice (3) Tea, Vicar? (4) Styrofoam. I see at least one of these in every manuscript where the author has not mastered the craft of writing before submitting in his or her work. What are these four faults and, more importantly, how can you cure them? Beginners' four faults | Writing | Caro Clarke - writer

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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the c

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There is no egg in the eggplant, No ham in the hamburger And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England, French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that: Quicksand takes you down slowly, Boxing rings are square, And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Let's Face It. English Is a Stupid Language.

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. “Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even cl Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes.

Before you judge others or claim any absolute truth, consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 kilometres per second across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not "you". The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. Before you judge others or claim any absolute trut

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welcome biography quotes summaries stories poetry forum gallery timeline wordlist guestbook bookstore links credits contact Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe While the focus of this site is Poe's short stories, I wanted to include a few of his poems because of their beauty and significance. I may include more of them in the future. If you want to browse all of Poe's poetry, there are several resources on the links page. Poetry and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, quotes, summaries, discussion, images, and links

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Who is behind all the killing? The Lazarus Deception, Ch. 8 JJ Jeffers retraced the ninety-mile southern route of the doomed student athletes’ bus until he skirted the east side of College Station, Texas. Along the way, he thought of the lives ended that day and other lives changed forever. He thought of college kids in the burn unit at Parkland, who hours before worried only about four quarters of football. He tried to put himself in the shoes of proud parents who now selected caskets.

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