A good look at what others have to say on the topic of romance in SF.
http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/2010/05/brief-history-of-science-fiction.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110425052644AAZ3M0f
I am going to recommend Heinlein's Stranger in A Strange Land - and if anybody has Time Enough for Love, please bring it along to the meeting.
I also offer The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison as a candidate, as romance appears in the story as a complication.
If you have read 2000AD, the Nikolai Dante strip is essentially a romance set in a very SF world: and if SSR and the other books are picked, I'm bringing along the latest 2000AD next week - which, I am told, is the finale for Nikolai Dante, a romance fifteen years in the telling and, probably, a tear jerker ending for a man purportedly "the Stainless Steel Rat's apprentice." :)
Stop Press - Time Enough for Love, in PDF:- http://www.gpnp.net/backshelves.gpnp.net/001%20scifi%20ebooks/scifi%20fav%20authors/heinlein%20ebooks/Time%20Enough%20for%20Love.pdf
Stranger In A Strange Land:- http://www.freewebs.com/yotopia2/Heinlein-Stranger-In-A-Strange-Land.pdf
The Number Of The Beast - http://www.gpnp.net/backshelves.gpnp.net/001%20scifi%20ebooks/scifi%20fav%20authors/heinlein%20ebooks/The%20Number%20of%20the%20Beast.pdf
The Stainless Steel Rat does exist in PDF. But you'll have to dig it up. Sorry.
I will locate more books as and when I find them.
I know romance isn't just about sex. However, I encountered a short story in Clarkesworld mag that is the most erotic SF I've read. It well deserved the accoldades it received as well as many coughs and tutters.
ReplyDeleteDon't read if you are easily offended.
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/
Now that's just plain ... medical.
ReplyDeleteI disagree. Yes, there's physical biology but it is a literary piece exploring sex from an non-terrestial alien point of view and hence quite fascinating. it wouldn't have won the 2009 Nebula Award if it was plain medical. That aside, it is a cunningly clever piece of writing.
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