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Sorry I didn’t return sooner! Thanks for your insights.

>So how does SFR increase buy-in to post-Christian, post-patriarchal, post-Western fantasies

Very carefully, LOL! Plus a few decades of blood, sweat, […]

>it needs to develop its own set of accessible conventions

Agreed. This is an area where strategic risk-taking and experimentation come in. One of the advantages of SFR being so niche is authors have lots of […]

My heart goes out to authors who have worked extremely hard–decades in some cases–to entertain readers with SF-romance hybrids/futuristics/SFR. I salute their efforts and perseverance and am glad of the […]

Coming back to add that I might have misinterpreted this statement:

>But for it to happen we’ll need sf romance authors who don’t come from an sf background.

I started thinking of my *reading* background in […]

Regarding sfnal tropes/worldbuilding, as with everything else in fiction it’s a subjective issue. Some people will think an author’s worldbuilding and/or concepts is too complex while others find it lacking. Some […]

>(a) its metaphors are still too new culturally, and so unstable, (b) it hasn’t embraced familiar plot/aesthetic structures,

I agree with those observations. One of the reasons SFR hasn’t embraced familiar […]