#sf romance

[hannadarewriter]

Pretty pictures

A book aesthetic for my WIP -  follow-up to Machine Metal Magic. Now back to actually writing it!

[therandomavenger]

Next project plotted out! A SF Romance Novella ( I needed something shorter after the mammoth Valley of Storms). Start drafting tomorrow .

In this one I'm processing my fundamentalist trauma through the lens of interstellar first contact.

[uncomfortableghost]

God I love Jessie Mihalik books. Exciting scifi, interesting lore, sweet couples that are interesting together, spicy scenes that have interesting character building and insight built in and so much emphasis on consent. Just so easy and fun to read.

[clarounette]

REVIEW: Atana by Starla Night

Click the image to buy on Amazon Summary I am a lesser from a servant world.But even before I was taken?There was no rescue for me.The night sky isn’t the only place that’s filled with darkness.And cages look different, but they’re all the same.I might be fragile as glass, but I shielded my daughter with my own body. I’ll withstand these brutal aliens.Their leader. The one who has blades in his…

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[clarounette]

REVIEW: Filthy royal by Alison Aimes (ALC)

Click the image to buy on Amazon Summary The first time they met was all about pleasure. Then she betrayed him. So, now he’s back…to punish. And he plans to play dirty. Filthy, even.Meet Damien Skolov: ex-cage fighter, current family enforcer, hot-headed royal warlord. Sure, she broke his heart, but he’s over it now. This time, his return is all about the mission—and revenge.Then there’s…

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[clarounette]

REVIEW: Filthy beginnings by Alison Aimes (ALC)

Click the image to buy on Amazon Summary He’s a hot-headed cage-fighter with no respect for the rules.She’s a glamorous, shimmering trophy imprisoned in a glass cage.According to the rules of the tournament, they are never supposed to meet. Or sneak away together. Or learn each other’s strengths and scars by the trail of illicit fingertips along their fevered skin.Or become each other’s whole…

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[clarounette]

REVIEW: Overlord by Anna Hackett

Click the image to buy on Amazon Summary When an experimental starship test goes horribly wrong, a test pilot from Earth is flung across the galaxy and crash lands on the planet of a powerful alien king.Pilot Mallory West is having a really bad day. She’s crashed on an alien planet, her ship is in pieces, and her best friend Poppy, the scientist monitoring the experiment, is missing. Dazed and…

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[gollancz]

Reexamining Power Dynamics in <em>The Red Scholar’s Wake</em> by Aliette de Bodard

SFF and romance grew from the soil of Gothic fiction, a genre whose hallmark has always been the allure and terror of the powerful outsider:

If there were a Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for pirates, the lowest level would be pirate, and then as you went up the pyramid it would be captured by pirate and then captured by pirate you want to kiss, and like a naïve fool I would have said that was the end of the pyramid. But the galaxy-brained Aliette de Bodard correctly detected that there’s a whole other level at the tippity-top of the pyramid, which is captured by pirate who is also a sentient ship whose hot lady avatar you want to kiss. This is art; this is living; this is why we first crawled out of the sea.

This is a phenomenal article from @tordotcom about THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE, and how maybe it is also slightly Gothic, even though it is set in space and has ladies kissing. 1000/10

If you too would like to read about hot space ladies kissing, head this way...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BSFA BEST NOVEL AWARD, AND THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST SF NOVEL! Winner of the 2023 BSFA Award for Best Cover, and Aliette added yet ANOTHER BSFA award to her collection, winning the 2023 award for Best Novella.