Photo by Min An One of the most popular genres in modern fiction is dystopian, with examples like Boutwell’s Old Men and Infidels series, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and more. Although the glut of modern fiction falls squarely in fantasy and young adult fiction, there is a significant chunk of readers that still prefer something else. …
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5 Writing Techniques That Bring The Story To Life For Readers
Photo by Pixabay Take a moment and close your eyes; recall a story that engaged you as a reader — one whose characters and the world became completely real for you—got one? It is excruciating for an author when his hard work goes unnoticed, and readers entirely disregard the effort that went into writing the…
Learning About Toponymy: How Place Names Evolve
Monique Elias’s Faces and Places in the World is a lovely book for children to learn more about geography and place names, which led me to discover more about toponymy. Derived from the Greek words topos and onoma, meaning “region” and “to name,” respectively, toponymy is the study of place names, how they evolved throughout the years, where they came…
Sci-Fi Books: Could Be A Good Way to Learning Politics
Photo by cottonbro studio Science fiction novels can add value and help us imagine scenarios we would never consider. This would allow everyone to convey freedom of expression. Sometimes called the “literature of ideas,” science fiction is a natural medium for normative political philosophy. Science fiction’s focus on technology, space and time travel, non-human lifeforms,…
Thinking About the End Times: Likely Scenarios People Will Face
Photo by Nur Andi Ravsanjani Gusma Walter C. Boutwell’s books on post-apocalyptic fiction, the OMAI series, are novel takes on the apocalypse, continuing the tradition of writers and poets imagining how the world might end. Since humans learned how to think and make up stories, some have been obsessed with how society, and the world…
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