![]() ![]() Aside from that, the following qualities and attributes can make a thing scary: And you can start that by looking at some of the phobias people have. ![]() The trick is to get to the heart of what makes a monster scary. Write about human nature and then change the form (add tentacles, claws, teeth, scales etc.) in order to home in on a traditional view of what constitutes monster. All are synonyms for monster in the sense of an inhumanly cruel or wicked person. Think about the following words: brute, fiend, beast, ogre, devil, demon, barbarian, savage, villain, sadist, animal, bogeyman. Within that page, I picked up at least half a dozen books that contain monsters of one type or another. If it's the latter, then the answer is 'yes'.īarnes and Noble have a blog which has a page that lists the best science fiction for May 2018, which is about as representative as you're going to get. Not sure which is your main question - the one in the title (How do I write about monsters in the 21st Century?) or the one in the text (Does anyone still write about monsters in Sci-Fi novels?). ![]()
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