Re: Erotic/romance sf?

On 06 Feb 2006 10:59:25 -0800, "Elf M. Sternberg" <elf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Craig Richardson <crichard-tacoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I think the canonical answer to this is John Cleve's "Spaceways"
series. Reasonably pulpy action-adventure with a real SF background,
and doesn't either shy away from sex scenes or bog down with them
(IIRC, some books don't have any, or not more than one).

On the other hand, they're ocassionally (very, very,
ocassionally) brilliant. The "catgirl" book (quick, someone summon
Ethan Hammond) has a great scene where the Captain enters his cabin to
find his girlfriend on her knees all dressed in lacy, diaphanous veils.
"Oh," he says. "Are we playing Gor tonight?"

I just about fell out of my chair laughing.

Note that I didn't mean the paragraph above to imply that I think the
series is /bad/ - hell, well-done throwback pulp adventure in space?
I'll take two.

I'm also very fond of the stardrive. So well realized and thought out
that they're basically using it in the new "Battlestar Galactica".
Only better, since you can get more details in print.

In fact, the only major negative I can come up with is that the
invented slang is really, really jarring. This is true for most of
the series' contemporaries, of course, but "Spaceways" is an extreme
example. Extremely bad, that is.

--Craig

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Craig Richardson (crichard-tacoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
"Then I heard the whirring of the motorized snowmen, sound[ing] like the
death rattle of very small robot lizards, and I left the seasonal aisle"
-- James Lileks, "The Bleat", 2005/10/10
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