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Old 07-31-2012, 08:41 AM   #106
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Steven Brust wrote one that didn't get picked up by the publishers so he released it for free as fanfic
http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html
We have a copy here as well
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ighlight=brust

Was quite shiny, really had that firefly feel.
thank you for that, I have added it to my read list

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Old 07-31-2012, 12:31 PM   #107
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Just like a lot of fantasy readers frequent RPG cons. Hmm... while we are at it; I wonder where erotica readers meet
Don't know, but if you find out, please pass it on...

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Nowadays the sparkly vamp fad has started to fade just as the tough monster-hunting cute chick fad has faded into a background sub-genre. The good news is the next publisher fad isn't SF or Fantasy but watered down S&M. So we should have a few years of relative peace.
So, combine SF with watered-down S&M and you might just have something!
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There are certainly erotica shows. Eg, this one in London in November:

http://www.lth-hotels.com/london_eve...ica-london.htm
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There are certainly erotica shows. Eg, this one in London in November:

http://www.lth-hotels.com/london_eve...ica-london.htm
November, huh? Better check my frequent flier miles...
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Big business, too. Olympia (where the show is) is one of THE biggest exhibition centres in London.
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So, combine SF with watered-down S&M and you might just have something!
Don't give them ideas!

(Besides, didn't Frank Herbert already do that one?)
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I think it could be worse: imagine someone thinking that not only vampires should mate with their food going into western...

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I think it could be worse: imagine someone thinking that not only vampires should mate with their food going into western...

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I think that my brain refuses to imagine it.
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How to pick between sci fi and fantasy. I have seen every star trek ep more than once, but would poke my eyes out before reading a book. I demand a more adult theme for my reading. I would love to try a Firefly book.
Fantasy I loved adored the Game of Thrones books but would never in a million years read Harry Potter or Lord Of The Rings. Again I do not do children's books and require real action with adult themes, lots of real violence and you can throw in some sex.
There are a lot of legitimate complaints that can be leveled at LotR -- that it's a "children's book" is not really one of them, IMO. It's 1100 pages and deals with some pretty serious themes. Though I suppose if you automatically define anything that doesn't contain explicit sex and gruesome violence as for children...

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There are a lot of legitimate complaints that can be leveled at LotR -- that it's a "children's book" is not really one of them, IMO. It's 1100 pages and deals with some pretty serious themes. Though I suppose if you automatically define anything that doesn't contain explicit sex and gruesome violence as for children...



It's really not particularly difficult at all.
I read the Hobbit as a child and enjoyed it. Strangely enough I found the Water Babies to be much more disturbing and that is a children's book.

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The Hobbit is a children's book. LotR is not.
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I am baffled why anyone would even consider LOTR to be a children's book. It most assuredly is not.
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I have not read LOTR I have attempted to watch the movies with no success. Everybody in my house loved the movies and my husband has read the books. They would call it YA. I just found it a yawn. But then I found Harry Potter the same and I did read the first book to my kids. They liked the movies better.
LOTR and Harry Potter are just to child like for my tastes.

I do agree Water Babies was scary stuff, I read that at 7 tho.

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Don't give them ideas!

(Besides, didn't Frank Herbert already do that one?)
More Heinlein than Herbert I'd of thought.
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