Turkey City Lexicon: A Primer For Science Fiction Workshops

The day on the New Planet           A ninja's favorite drink                                          The Galactic center                                               Bomb Theory                                                 science fiction convention                   Mary Sue                             Harlan Ellison                           generic books        Freelancing                                       Greg Egan   insurrection                             Rounders                                    Ouroboros                                  Vertiginous                                               Bathos                   Diction               James P. Blaylock                                 background               Ichorous                                                Yes Minister                                                 shaggy dog story                                               Panning         Coding for E2: Finding the Code                                                 Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?                                       assumption                                Christopher J. Priest           Dennis Hopper                              novice            idea      Off Armageddon Reef                                        Numbers Station                                   Time Out Film Guide                                       Writing horror: the devil's in the details  SciFiQuest 2106                                     Connie Willis                                              fireworks                                         J. R. "Bob" Dobbs                       exposition                  Before they were the Science Fiction Greats         Turkey                       detective                                          clunky    central casting                                                guttersnipe                                               Astounding Science Fiction             For you see, we are all living in a jar of Tang!                Writing (how to)                                            Serenity           protagonist                                  Expository                                       Fortean            The Milford System (or, the Modern Science Fiction Workshop)                       For Us, The Living                                        Designing a Fantasy World      Henry Kuttner        ODTAA Hero                           James Blish     Fortean skeptic                                               Rejected science fiction ideas, part one              The Atrocity Archives                                  January 6, 2009                      passel                                                Call a rabbit a smerp           handwavium                     John W. Campbell                                          The Rules of Attraction                            Science fiction                                             Sasquatch                           Squid on the Mantelpiece                         We're not coming home. I love you.                    tabloid                                                 Vitrine            Finding or Creating a Writers' Workshop Group                   Accelerando                     present participle                             Clarion West    human                           Night of the Living Dead                                            gratuitous                                    forsooth                                  Fallout                            storyteller  Kevin Wong                Stewart Brand                                           Movie clichés   The Tough Guide to Fantasyland                                   Shattered Light ---Section 1, Subsection 1                                         Exoticism  new species of man                                Ports of Call                                               invisible                 SciFiQuest 3008 Lexicon                 Kate Wilhelm                                         Dialogue                            point-of-view                                                space war                    Moxyland                     Ursula K. Le Guin                                              creeping Jordanitis             The Epic Epic of Erik 'The Epic' Killblood                   rule of nines                                              Slipstream     Kudzu                                  Bruce Sterling                    Idiot Plot                                       How to Write a Generic Fantasy Novel                                  desktop publishing                              Tenebrous              Argo - a science fiction novelette                 Nonconformist As you know, Bob                         Portent                              Generic Fantasyland             didactic                                           Chekhov's Gun                         Tim Powers                       My Other Life                                         Interzone                               Thomas M. DischSaid Bookism There is life after virginity                         Trope                                              Robert Heinlein                                      Howard Waldrop                                         Heroes of Destiny          Tom Swift                                                Writing and publishing                                     Brian Aldiss                10 commandments of bad writers                                       Rudy Rucker                                    The Affinity Bridge          Fortean Phenomena   perniciousHow to improve your chances of having sex                          SciFiQuest 2010: Odyssey Two              Picaresque Science fiction clichés                   Document  sesquipedalian                            The 4400        erudite                H.G. Wells                                       MacGuffin                                 Damon Knight             August 25, 2010    copyleft     Twilight Zone                                             mystery                                       Conceit                                           Critters                 Pardoning of the presidential turkey                                              IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.    Apocalypse              Peter Roget                             ontological                                           Expository lump                                       gimmick        Take a Thief                                                 The 2008 financial crisis, and why it failed                                               Bird feeder                  fait accompli                                      Walk Hard                                            Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab                                   Weak and desperate from decades of commuting the djinn would barter all for coffee and a friendly ear                   Planar array notation                             mass driver     Show, don't tell    A moment of extreme unreality                        George Washington's 1793 State of the Union Address                       Secret Me-Meta-Node Challenge             Michael Moorcock        novel                         Cyberpunk              Barrington J. Bayley                           Kraken       Apheresis                                            Nancy Clue: lesbian girl detective      grandstand                     character            George Orwell                             Isaac Asimov                     Lewis Shiner                Writing for a wider audience                               Mark Twain's Rules of Writing          If cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl                                            How to lessen fantasy cover clichés    writing                                         BBC                    author                    Hack Clarion                          George R. R. Martin                                     Virginia Woolf                                  Austin, Texas                           Ailment                  Apologize            IBM                                 American