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Ex Urbe Ad Astra Bonus Ep. 3, Part 1: The Author-Reader Contract

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How to Create a Killer Mystery in a Science Fiction Book

If you're having some major key to what john roer in be saved for later, you have to really be planning that carefully. It can show up in chapter one, when one of the characters says that it's all nonsense, right? Thatw'll be enough, just as we mentioned in chapter one. O know, yes, there are spaceships. This spaceship is partly built out of the bones of an ancient dragon. And then you've just established ht that's there, and then your reader is ready for bones eady to drag it, leading to and magic and dragons, whatever else. But if you have no warning at the start, it will seem like it's

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