This is a short non-fiction book focusing on story development and short story / novel writing in genre fiction, especially in the science fiction field. For anyone interested in writing science fiction or any kind of genre fiction, this book can provide a useful insight, a valid viewpoint by a famous practioner of the field. Full of great advice, helpful tips and revealing good practice developed during decades of writing and editing it offers a window to see a successful writer at work. Though it is a nice journey into a writer's mind and environment, the chapters do not create a well organised collection, the reader doesn't receive a complete, exhaustive overview of the craft of a writer.