"Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed."—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
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Philosophical Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Part 8 in the series, A Literary Search for Meaning by Dr Karen Hughes Speculative fiction offers a variety of overlapping genres with a wide range of tropes and techniques that the modern writer can draw upon to create new
New Myths
Part 9 in the series, A Literary Search for Meaning by Dr Karen Hughes Joseph Campbell argues that myths offer life models and such models “have to be appropriate to the time in which you are living”; modern life requires
Unnatural Perspectives
Part 10 in the series, A Literary Search for Meaning by Dr Karen Hughes As well as combining the mythic with the fantastic and drawing on the tropes of apocalyptic science fiction, I have used multiple literary methods and narrative
Alien Dialects
Part 11 in the series, A Literary Search for Meaning by Dr Karen Hughes The creation of alien dialect, like the evocation of unnatural perspectives, must be a construct. Author David Mitchell, who coined the term “Bygonese” to describe the
The Manipulation of Time
Part 12 in the series, A Literary Search for Meaning by Dr Karen Hughes I employed a variety of narrative techniques in my new novel, Gaba Gali, to disrupt the reader’s natural assumptions and create the impression of non-linear time.