How to write science fiction & fantasy

What You Will Learn?

• A journey into scifi & fantasy with writer and storyteller Damien Walter..
• For as long as there have been humans, there have been stories. Stories to help us understand our mysterious universe and give meaning to our lives. Stories to give us comfort in darkness and inspire us to reach for the light..
• Science fiction & fantasy are the most popular stories of the 21st century. On the cinema screen, in our Netflix streams and in video games, billions of us watch, read and play the amazing stories of scifi and fantasy..
• Science fiction is our modern mythology.
• As science transformed how we saw the universe, life and human existence, our old myths died. We began a search for new myths to give meaning to the modern world, myths we call science fiction..
• From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and a thousand stories beyond, great storytellers have crafted new myths for the age of science..
• Part ONE of Advanced Scifi & Fantasy.
• In the introduction to the course we look at Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, the first science fiction novel. The young MWS was a philosopher and intellectual who became fascinated by how science was changing the world. In response she created a myth for the modern age of science, that has lasted two centuries and remains one of the great works of science fiction. The first workshop also looks at Eternal Questions, the deep unanswered mysteries of life that myth helps us to see into..
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• Damien Walter wrote the long running Weird Things column for The Guardian, and has interviewed legendary SF authors including Harlan Elison and Neil Stephenson. He studied with World Fantasy award winner Graham Joyce, and is a graduate of the Clarion writer’s workshop lead by Neil Gaiman and Kelly Link. His writing courses have over twenty-five thousand students online..