Is there any good erotic fantasy?

WildScribe · Dec 3, 2006

I read the first series by Jackueline Carey and LOVED it (the Kushiel series). I've been looking for something similar for ages, but haven't really found any. (Aside from the multitude of vampire novels... please don't recomment Hamilton or Harrison for this one.)

I'd love to write something like that if there was a market, but since I can't find the books to read, then perhaps the market is nill?

Jongfan · Dec 3, 2006

Or perhaps the market is waiting for you to write it. If you enjoyed it, why not write it?

I find Cecilia Tan and Susan Wright have similar styles you may enjoy.

JBI · Dec 3, 2006

Try Anne Rice. By her, try The Vampire Chronicles, starting with Interview With the Vampire

Akuma · Dec 3, 2006

Definitley Anne Rice.

She's a great writer, just a bit too kinky for my tastes.

JDCrayne · Dec 3, 2006

JBI said:
Try Anne Rice. By her, try The Vampire Chronicles, starting with Interview With the Vampire

She also wrote an erotica trilogy under the pen name A.N. Roquelaure. Most of the erotica in her vampire novels is homosexual. Very well done.

WildScribe · Dec 3, 2006

Again, I was specifically looking for non-vampire. Thanks, though.

RedWombat · Dec 4, 2006

Anne Bishop is the only thing I can think of offhand, and that's a recommendation I can only give with a lot of mental hedging.

And yeah, I hear ya on the vampires.

JanDarby · Dec 4, 2006

Check out the epublishers. A LOT of the epubbed erotic romance books are in the sf/f subgenre.

Or take a look at Red Sage (google Red Sage Publishing). Some of the stories in the anthologies are sf/f. I'm the absolute worst with names, but Leigh something. Wynfield? Starts with a W, anyway. I think. She writes sf/f.

Anyway, if you go to Veinglory's site (which is more addressed to writers than readers, but it has a list and links to the erotica publishers), you could find the publishers easily. Or go to the erotica readers and writers site (google "erotica," and it'll be one of the first hits) and then go to writers' resources, which has links to many epubs in the genre, and then the epubs themselves usually break down their offerings by subgenre. Fictionwise.com also has a breakdown by subgenre, I believe.

JD

sunandshadow · Dec 4, 2006

J.G. Ballard's _The Unlimited Dream Company_ is an excellent surreal erotic fantasy, if you're okay with weird and somewhat violent stuff.

MattW · Dec 4, 2006

There's another author like Jacqueline Carey that was always recommended to me as as "Kushiel is ok, but ______ is way over the line." What the line was I don't know, also don't remember who the author was.

JBI · Dec 4, 2006

The one that Rice wrote under a pen name is a modern adaptation of Sleeping beauty, starting with Beauty's Release I believe.

Shadow_Ferret · Dec 4, 2006

What's wrong with Hamilton? She also writes erotic fantasy in her series about a fairy princess, Merry Gentry. Start with Kiss of Shadows. Very explicit.

Popeyesays · Dec 4, 2006

Norman Spinrad could handle a hot scene as well: Bug Jack Baron was highly explicit and bisexually explicit as well.

Regards,
Scott

Pthom · Dec 4, 2006

On Thursday, December 14, this forum holds its official live chat. I propose we discuss erotica in SF and Fantasy, then. Thoughts?

ChaosTitan · Dec 5, 2006

I'm there.

Should we bring visual aides? :e2brows:

Kidding. I think it's a valuable and timely topic, especially with the rise of paranormal romance. We live in a society that had fewer and fewer social taboos placed on sex, and it will be interesting to discuss that in both old and new SF/F texts.

Akuma · Dec 5, 2006

I'm still waiting for a lewd comment about wands...

Linda Adams · Dec 5, 2006

Have a look at Romantic Times. They have a section covering erotica, and there's always a lot of fantasy for that reviewed. You should be able to find some interesting titles off that.

JDCrayne · Dec 5, 2006

JBI said:
The one that Rice wrote under a pen name is a modern adaptation of Sleeping beauty, starting with Beauty's Release I believe.

Yes, and I seem to remember that it's a trilogy. I bought the set for my husband some years ago, but never got around to reading it myself. At least Rice is a decent wordsmith. Some of the other fantasy erotic around is pretty lousy.

JDCrayne · Dec 5, 2006

Popeyesays said:
Norman Spinrad could handle a hot scene as well: Bug Jack Baron was highly explicit and bisexually explicit as well.

Yes! I can endorse that. I enjoyed Bug Jack Baron a lot and recommend it to anyone interested in that kind of erotica.

JDCrayne · Dec 5, 2006

Akuma said:
I'm still waiting for a lewd comment about wands...

I don't know about the wands, but according to Pratchett, a wizard's staff has a knob on the end.

Is there any good erotic fantasy?

WildScribe

Slave to the Wordcount

Jongfan

Insane, in a good way

JBI

Akuma

Rare Writer Pokemon

JDCrayne

Indonesian Yak Keeper

WildScribe

Slave to the Wordcount

RedWombat

Runs With Scissors

JanDarby

sunandshadow

Impractical Fantasy Animal

MattW

Company Man

JBI

Shadow_Ferret

Court Jester

Popeyesays

Now departed. Rest in peace, Scott, from all of us

Pthom

Word butcher

ChaosTitan

Around

Akuma

Rare Writer Pokemon

Linda Adams

Soldier, Storyteller

JDCrayne

Indonesian Yak Keeper

JDCrayne

Indonesian Yak Keeper

JDCrayne

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