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Some books on writing I have read and can really recommend:

Style & Grammar

The Elements of Style -
by William Strunk & E.B White (MacMillan)
very thin booklet on styles and do's and do not''s)

On Writing Well -
by William Zinsser
(VERY enjoyable and has GREAT literary and scientific book recommendations; mostly about style )

Working with Words -
Brian S. Brooks & James L. Pinson ( St. Martin's Press)
(concise book on englisch grammar basics)

Before the Story
- George M. Killenberg ( St. Martin's Press)
(a book on journalism, techniques, ethics, etc)

CreativeWriting:

Wild Mind
- by Natalie Goldberg

Writing Down the Bones
- by Natalie Goldberg
(both extremely enjoyable and inspiring; She writes about the process of getting down and putting ink to paper and suggests exercises and techniques)

Journal Writers

Life's Companion
- by Christina Baldwin

One to One
- by Christina Baldwin
( both beautiful and inspiring. Life's Companion has very lovely graphics and great ideas if you like to write journals)

A life of One's Own
- by Joanna Field
(more autobiographical than stylistic; but a very interesting book)


If you are interested in Linguistics:

Syntactic Structures
- Noam Chomsky
( or anything by him at all; he writes mostly about linguistics though and may not be everyone's cup of tea)

The Language Instinct
- by Steven Pinker (Morrow)
(actually if language fascinates you, and the way the brain deals with it, you can read most of Pinker books; he's a linguistic researcher)




And some recommendations taken from Omni

WRITINGSCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
by the Editors of Analog and Asimov's Science Fiction (St.Martin's Press, 1991)

SCIENCE FICTION WRITER'S WORKSHOP---AN INTRODUCTION TO FICTION MECHANICS
by Barry B. Longyear (Owlswick Press, 1980)

THE CRAFT OF SCIENCE FICTION: A SYMPOSIUM ON WRITING

SCIENCE FICTION AND SCIENCE FANTASY

CREATING SHORT FICTION
by Damon Knight (Writer's Digest Books, 1981)

WRITING SCIENCE FICTION
by Christopher Evans (St. Martin's Press, 1988)

HOW TO WRITE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
by Orson Scott Card (Writer's Digest Books, 1990)

SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS OF AMERICA HANDBOOK
edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (Pulphouse Publishing, 1990)

BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES, AND ENDS
by Nancy Kress (Writer's Digest Books, 1993)

PARAGONS:TWELVE SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS PLY THEIR CRAFT
edited by Robin Wilson (St.Martin's Press, 1996)

INTERSECTIONS:THE SYCAMORE HILL ANTHOLOGY
edited by John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name, and  Richard Butner (Tor, 1996)

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