Kathleen Ann Goonan
Speculative Fiction and Science Fiction: Writing Beyond Borders
8 weeks: Mondays, February 1 - March 29, 2010, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
$170 (Current MDC faculty and credit students: $120)

Course will take place at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
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Writing science fiction is not unlike writing any other fiction. Character, plot, setting, style, and the intangibles that hold these together are essential parts of the tool kit. But then, of course, there are those other elements--the accepted science fiction tropes of time travel, aliens, space travel, or new and subtle differences between our lives as we know them and what might be--that must be woven seamlessly into the work. Writing science fiction is an opportunity to explore the possibilities our ever-changing present holds. This is a hands-on course in learning how to revise and refine your own short story or novel using the tools of group critiquing, personal consultation with a published, award-winning science fiction author, discussions of good published science fiction, and recommended supplementary reading.

Kathleen Ann Goonan has published six critically acclaimed novels.  Her first novel, Queen City Jazz, was a New York Times Notable Book and BSFA finalist.  Her second novel, The Bones of Time, was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.  Crescent City Rhapsody and Light Music were Nebula Finalists. She has published thirty short stories.  “Memory Dog,” one of her latest, is in Year’s Best SF 13, and took second place in 2009’s Sturgeon Awards.  In War Times, her sixth novel, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and was the ALA’s Best Adult Genre Novel of 2007.  Angels and You Dogs, a collection of short stories from PS Publishing, will be out in 2011. Her novel-in-progress, This Shared Dream, will be published by Tor in the near future.

Date and Time
Mondays
February 1 - March 29, 2010
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Fee
$170, pre-registration required
(Current MDC faculty staff and students: $120)

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.

Want to register? Click here for instructions and registration form.