The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells
© 2014, 1984 by Ben Bova. All rights reserved.
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To Cordwainer Bird... may he fly high and strike terror in the hearts of the unjust.
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Table of Contents
1: THE BANKERS
2: THE WRITER
3: THE AGENT
4: THE PRODUCER
5: THE DECISION MAKERS
6: THE CONFRONTATION
7: THE AGREEMENT
8: THE TEAM
9: THE STAR
10: THE DIRECTOR
11: THE FIRST DAY'S SHOOTING
12: THE SQUEEZE PLAY
13: THE THREE MONKEYS
14: THE EXODUS
15: THE WARNING
16: THE REACTION
17: THE OUTCOME
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
1: THE BANKERS
“American ingenuity licked the pollution problem,” said Bernard Finger, glowingly. “And the energy crisis too, by damn.”