Since 1995 I have been a judge for the Writers of the Future Contest, an avid supporter for much longer than that . . . and even a contestant in the early years (before I became disqualified by earning my chops as a professional writer). Last year marked 25 years of the contest -- a quarter century of amazing success in introducing and encouraging new writers in the genre. I’ve spent the past week (and will spend the next several) sifting through archives, contacting many of the winners and judges, to put together a lavish coffee-table book, a retrospective of...
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I receive many queries about my writing technique, so here's a full description. This article first appeared in the BULLETIN of the Science Fiction Writers of America TALKING TO MYSELF Kevin J. Anderson If you see a person walking along engaged in a vigorous conversation with no one else around, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s escaped from the nearest asylum. It could be me talking to myself. But don’t be concerned, don’t interrupt me, don’t bother me at all -- I’m writing. It’s been about fifteen years since I gave up the keyboard and took up a recorder for my...
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Created for the new CD, which will be out in early June. Preorders on the ProgRock Recordswebsite will be shipped a month sooner, plus they come with an autographed page from the manuscript of the companion novel, The Map of All Things. Feel free to share the poster image.
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Tor Books will be gradually releasing new designs of our Dune book covers in paperback, expanding and emphasizing a portion of the Stephen Youll art. Here is the cover for the new edition of The Butlerian Jihad, which I just received. I also wrote the frame story for a new anthology edited by Jean Rabe and Martin Greenberg for DAW Books, Time Shares, about a time-travel vacation agency. And I have an essay in the current Nebula Awards Showcase about science fiction in the 1970s. I will be editing next year's volume of the Nebula Showcase.
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