Hollywood Turns to Fiction's 'Golden Age,' Future Writers to Make Up Lost Time After Strike

Hollywood Turns to Fiction's 'Golden Age,' Future Writers to Make Up Lost Time After Strike

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Scrambling to make up lost time and lost ideas to fill anxious television and film production schedules, some Hollywood writers are turning to the oldest and newest sources for inspiration -- the legendary Golden Age of fiction from the 30s and 40s and today's fledgling authors of speculative fiction published by Galaxy Press.

"We've already been contacted by some big name scriptwriters right out of the gate following the end of the Writer's strike here in Hollywood," said John Goodwin, president of the Hollywood-based publisher. "They're eager to comb through the wealth of wonderful stories published by pulp fiction master storytellers like L. Ron Hubbard, Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein and Clarke.

It's a ripe area for Hollywood: best-selling author Hubbard's "golden age stories," for example, are set to appear in an unprecedented 80-volume series of short novels beginning in summer, 2008 covering virtually every major popular genre including westerns, adventure, fantasy, and science fiction.

Also under Hollywood's literary microscope are short stories from some of speculative fiction's newest writers. "Screenwriters and producers are asking about adapting works from stories by newly-published writers from the Writers of the Future annual anthology, filled with intriguing, clever plots from fledgling writers in speculative fiction," Goodwin added. The anthology, now in its 23rd year, publishes winning fiction of the worldwide Writers of the Future annual contest -- speculative fiction's top merit-based competition of its kind for new or little-published writers from around the globe.

Conceived of by Hubbard in 1983, the Contest and anthology have launched the careers of over 500 writers (and illustrators in a companion contest) through professional publication and payment for their works of up to $1,000, with the yearly grand prize winners bringing home an additional $5,000. And many of these winners have gone on to become the must-read names of science fiction and fantasy; names such as Stephen Baxter, Nancy Farmer, Jay Lake, Robert Reed, Stephen Savile, Sean Williams and Dave (Farland) Wolverton, to name a few.

Photos of winning writers from volume 23 are available at http://www.writersofthefuture.com/news/wof23event.htm

For a free eBook on writing by science fiction grand master Anne McCaffrey, go to http://www.writersofthefuture.com/.

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Source: Galaxy Press

CONTACT: John Goodwin of Galaxy Press, +1-323-321-2144,
jgoodwin@galaxypress.com

Web site:

http://www.galaxypress.com/
http://www.writersofthefuture.com/

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