On 6 Feb, 22:35, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> Are there any sf series where professional writing plays a
"significant",
> not necessarily dominant or featured, but a good-sized ****tion to be
> noticeable part of the story?
>
> By "writing" I'm including:
> --The act of writing and / or typing.
> --The working out of stories, outline, plot points, painted corners,
etc.
> --The editing and reediting and internal critiquing of the story.
> --The publi****ng, selecting of material, the printing of said material,
etc.
> --The selling of books, marketing, advertising, book tours, cons,
junkets,
> etc.
>
> -- Ken from Chicago
>
> P.S. I excluded the "researching" because that allows MURDER, SHE WROTE
> style series, where solving murders becomes "research" for stories, and
I
> was interested more in the field of writing itself.
The condition that it's an SF /series/ is tough to meet. There's the
"Incompleat Enchanter" stories, where not modern professional writing
but enumerating the logical premises of a legend-cycle (such as the
dramatic structure of Norse myths or the Faerie Queen) constitute a
magical spell that tele****ts you into that world. In that there's
more than one episode of that, it's a series.
And in _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_, Jake Sisko grows up a fiction
writer - I think season four includes both the episode where his old-
age famous-writer self remembers the technobabble discontainment that
swallowed up his father (retroactively undone, I think), /and/ the one
where a psychic-vampire muse lady feeds on his writer mojo.
Oh, and the _U.F.O._ series is set in a film studio with a secret base
rather pointlessly underneath it. The secret commander poses as, /
is/, the studio head, and presumably is involved with scripts as well
as everything else.
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