I find there's only so much heterosexuality I can read at once before I have to read a cheesy (and quite possibly terrible) f/f romance, or reread some of my favourite queer SF.
What's your favorite queer SF? I'm taking recommendations.
I read a fair amount of romance but I did grow up hate-reading a lot of Mills and Boon/Harlequin Silhouettes with creepy, domineering 'alpha males' and the doormat women who give up their careers for them.
I have never read very much romance, unless you count Mary Stewart's "novels of romantic suspense." But I had a bookstore job from the mid-'90's to early 2000's that involved a lot of stocking and shelving of mainstream paperback romances and I would keep trying to pick them up and read them just to see what they were like and they were universally awful from the prose to the plots to the porn and I understood nothing about the existence of the genre. I recognize it's improved in several directions since then, but it's still not my first instinct when looking for a book.
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What's your favorite queer SF? I'm taking recommendations.
I read a fair amount of romance but I did grow up hate-reading a lot of Mills and Boon/Harlequin Silhouettes with creepy, domineering 'alpha males' and the doormat women who give up their careers for them.
I have never read very much romance, unless you count Mary Stewart's "novels of romantic suspense." But I had a bookstore job from the mid-'90's to early 2000's that involved a lot of stocking and shelving of mainstream paperback romances and I would keep trying to pick them up and read them just to see what they were like and they were universally awful from the prose to the plots to the porn and I understood nothing about the existence of the genre. I recognize it's improved in several directions since then, but it's still not my first instinct when looking for a book.