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Feeling trapped by SFF genre conventions? Does "interstitial" seem like such a catch-all that it's a throwaway term that someone made up to humor you? Like your space-assassins to carry swords and shuriken? "Science Fantasy" still sound like you're lying about the science part?
Okay, all you SFF writers who don't really fit the accepted category identities, and don't want to, I'd like to hear about your worlds, and how you describe them to agents, readers, and publishers.
My universe is a chromed-out romance with lots of handwaiving instead of real science, a low-brow fantasy with all the dragons, floating castles, and cursed princesses you could want, in Space Opera drag.
It ain't Sword and Planet, and I'll bite my own tongue off before I'll call it Science Fiction. So. What shall we call it? How should I describe it so that it will seem fresh and interesting, instead of hard to place?
Okay, all you SFF writers who don't really fit the accepted category identities, and don't want to, I'd like to hear about your worlds, and how you describe them to agents, readers, and publishers.
My universe is a chromed-out romance with lots of handwaiving instead of real science, a low-brow fantasy with all the dragons, floating castles, and cursed princesses you could want, in Space Opera drag.
It ain't Sword and Planet, and I'll bite my own tongue off before I'll call it Science Fiction. So. What shall we call it? How should I describe it so that it will seem fresh and interesting, instead of hard to place?
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