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Originally Posted by jehane
There's a term for that. Cutting off your nose to spite your face. Note that in spite of their preferences for adventure over romance, those critics didn't *not* read the Sharing Knife series. The Vorkosigan novels are not all a boy's own adventure in space. The Warrior's Apprentice certainly is (and I love it) however Shards of Honor could easily be categorised as Science Fiction Romance (and I love it as well). Barrayar (which, yes, I love, especially the erm, "shopping" scene) maintains the strong romantic thread of Shards of Honor. Some of the later novels deal with Miles' and his friends' own romantic entanglements. And I love them as well.
Melanie Rawn - the Sunrunner series. I actually prefer the Exiles trilogy but it remains unfinished after about a decade and with no end in the foreseeable future.
Juliet Marillier
Sarah Zettel
Robin McKinley
Isolde Martyn - historical rather than fantasy
Marion Zimmer Bradley - in particular the Avalon series and the Trillium series she co-wrote with Julian May and Andre Norton
Catherine Asaro
Mercedes Lackey
Jacqueline Carey
Guy Gavriel Kay (more historical fantasy but does the romance quite well and really does produce the most beautiful writing I have ever come across)
These are the ones I can think of that write fantasy with very strong romantic elements. It's a stereotype, but as a general rule, speculative fiction written by women will likely have stronger romantic subplots than those written by men.
If you'd like to expand your reading there's also:
SL Viehl - space opera and paranormal romance (under a different name)
Elizabeth Moon - space opera (Serrano Legacy and Vatta's War)
Kim Harrison - urban fantasy
There are more in all categories, but these are the ones I have read and enjoyed. You might also like to check out The Galaxy Express - there is a list of authors on the left, and links to other sites on the right. |
Nice list -- thanks! I'm going to check out some of those myself...