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Does the Chronicles of St. Mary's series include a romance plot? I've only read the first one and I vaguely remember something but details are scarce. I enjoyed the first one, I remember that.
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Lisanne Norman's Turning Point. It's the first book in a series and is SF.
For fantasy Bujold's Penric and Desdemona novellas. It's book 4 before he meets the lady he falls in love with and book 7 before they are married but they are quick reads. Jayne Castle Ghost Hunters series. Paranormal Romances. First Channel by Jaqueline Lichtenberg. SF. The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley. Fantasy |
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Also Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.
I read the first, our heroine gets stuck in the past, but I felt there was a bit too much romance for my taste. There's at least 8 books in the series. |
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I echo the recommendation for Jessie Mihalik's Consortium series, and yes, the third book is due out soon. After reading the first two in that series, I also read and liked Mihalik's two Rogue Queen books, which feel like they maybe should have a third one coming, and since the second was published in 2019, there might be.
(As only an occasional sci-fi reader, much more of a mystery reader, where series can be really long, I sometimes wonder why do so many sci-fi book series come in threes? Granted there are also some long sci-fi and fantasy series, but a lot of threes...) Last edited by sufue; 03-26-2020 at 06:52 PM. |
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I also really like some of Ilona Andrews' series, although their better known ones (Kate Daniels, Hidden Legacy) are more urban fantasy than sci-fi, I think.
However their Innkeeper series feels somewhat sci-fi-ish to me - although I'm not much good at sussing out various genres, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong . And it has some romance in it. And, curiously enough, to help out folks who are home-bound because of coronavirus, just today Ilona Andrews have put the first three titles in the Innkeeper series in an omnibus on sale for $0.99 for all three, which makes the series pretty easy to try. They're calling it their "plague sale", but don't be put off by that...the series has nothing to do with the plague. Info in this post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3968444 |
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Mystery series tend to be self-contained books. There may be, probably are, elements in the personal arc of the protagonist that develop over the series, but each book is a fully developed story. Back in the day, before ebooks, it wasn’t at all unlikely that depending on availability at the bookstore and the library, that you might miss out a title or two; at that, you might have picked it up in the middle of the series and then backtracked. No harm done, and the books worked perfectly well. I suspect, especially with the world-building in SF&F, that you can’t read later books in a series as satisfactorily without reading the earlier ones. Moreover, I think they’re more likely to be telling an over-arcing story that’s broken down into chunks. Hence the trilogies. With a trilogy, you don’t have later books in a long series held hostage to the availability of earlier books (not much of a problem now), but also and IMO very importantly, three books is about the right number to tell an over-arcing story. The setup, the ramp-up, the final confrontation. Longer series and there’s too much wheel-spinning going on before the final confrontation. But what do I know? I mean that seriously. Not my genre. |
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I was under the impression that "trilogies" or extended series were what publishers wanted from sci-fi and fantasy authors after the success of The Lord of the Rings being published that way. It just became the "thing" that sci-fi/fantasy does and an expectation much the way that they are expected to be longer. A 200-300 page mystery or romance. Not a problem. A 200-300 page fantasy? "Why is it so short?" |
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If you want romance stories inside a SF shell, have her try Lindsay Buroker....
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Seconding many of the recommendations above, including Sharon Lee/Steven Miller and Linnea Sinclair (Accidental Goddess is amazing)
Lighter sci-fi romance: Coffee Cup Dreams by J. A. Marlow Dark Horse by Michelle Diener Ruby Lionsdrake series For not as light romantic science fiction: Brainships series - by Anne McCaffery Disappearing Act - by Margaret Ball |
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SciFi series with female protagonists, with various degrees of romantic involvement:
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Liaden Universe series Jean Johnson - Theirs Not To Reason Why series Joel Shepherd - Cassandra Kresnov series Mike Shepherd - Kris Longknife series Tanya Huff - Confederation series David Weber - Honor Harrington series Debra Doyle & James D. MacDonald - Mageworlds series Chris Moriarty - Spin series Ann Aguirre - Sirantha Jax series and Dred Chronicles series Dana Stabenow - Star Svensdotter series S L Viehl - Stardoc series Catherine Asaro - Skolian Empire series and Major Bhaajan series Rachel Bach - Paradox series Elizabeth Moon - Vatta's War series And one with a lot of strong secondary female characters, David Weber & John Ringo - Empire of Man series ------------- If she's interested in Urban Fantasy, I can provide a list for that, too. |
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Wow, I never would have thought there'd be so much romance in Sci-Fi for some reason.
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Sheri S. Tepper has a few that might qualify, like "Grass" and "A Plague of Angels", both of which I quite liked. ("APoA" reads as fantasy at first, but is not.) Beware of her sequels though.
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