Greg Egan is 100% an author rec! Diaspora and Dichronauts are also book recs, though the rest of his output is also well worth reading. (Including the short story collections. There was one with a super cool story about a person who lives in a different person's body every day, but again, damn if I can recall any titles. This is even worse than me not recalling which title went for which book for Frederik Pohl's The World at the End of Time and The Other End of Time.)
I'd like to read more pro fiction but am sometimes overwhelmed at the number of options and things I "should" read, especially in such Serious Business genres as this. No problem! The "classics" are mostly readable, but a lot of them are very dated, so there's no pressing need to read them outside genre-historical curiosity. (Eg Ringworld is a classic, but sexist, so I'd give some other introduction to the Big Dumb Object subgenre.) And any genre is only exactly as serious business as you want it to be. After all, they were all set up by monkeys with delusions of grandeur! ;P (But seriously, feel free to hit me up for SF recs. I've read hard SF, milSF, and space opera, plus a bunch of the classics, so I can give at least some sort of rec breadth.)
More ripping, more stripping, more fun. With interludes of mutual bosom-heaving (for maximum titillation)! Of course! Is it even a romance if there are no bosoms heaving? (...I'm now having flashbacks to the Blackadder episode where all the guys had obvious fake boobs hanging from their necks.) But yes, I bet Zhao Yunlan would absolutely love to rip off all of Professor Shen's layers to get at the skin beneath. Especially as the good prof seems to have wholeheartedly embraced buttcheek tailoring. And would no doubt love to return the favor.
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Date: 2019-11-18 10:31 am (UTC)No problem! The "classics" are mostly readable, but a lot of them are very dated, so there's no pressing need to read them outside genre-historical curiosity. (Eg Ringworld is a classic, but sexist, so I'd give some other introduction to the Big Dumb Object subgenre.) And any genre is only exactly as serious business as you want it to be. After all, they were all set up by monkeys with delusions of grandeur! ;P (But seriously, feel free to hit me up for SF recs. I've read hard SF, milSF, and space opera, plus a bunch of the classics, so I can give at least some sort of rec breadth.)
Of course! Is it even a romance if there are no bosoms heaving? (...I'm now having flashbacks to the Blackadder episode where all the guys had obvious fake boobs hanging from their necks.) But yes, I bet Zhao Yunlan would absolutely love to rip off all of Professor Shen's layers to get at the skin beneath. Especially as the good prof seems to have wholeheartedly embraced buttcheek tailoring. And would no doubt love to return the favor.