Comments | lady_gyrfalcon: LGBT fantasy/sci-fi novels?

lady_gyrfalcon

LGBT fantasy/sci-fi novels?

Oct 21, 2010 22:52

You know, looking at the bookshelf in the local bookshop makes me want to seriously try my hand at making the m/m high fantasy short story I'm writing into an actual, legit novel.
On account of the lack of fantasy books with lgbt protagonists or characters, you know?

I know that Crossed Genres did a great issue of fantasy with LGBTQ themes but it ( Read more... )

lgbt, musings

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m_a_foxfire October 22 2010, 01:48:45 UTC

Ooh, nice ( ... )

lady_gyrfalcon October 23 2010, 01:11:54 UTC

Well, I'm just kind of throwing things at the page and hoping they work before expanding it, you know? I want to see how I can sustain a longer sort of story ( ... )

m_a_foxfire October 23 2010, 02:47:39 UTC

Oh man Magic's Pawn. XD Read that back in the day and oh man. Vanyel was like. A one-man melodrama machine ( ... )

lady_gyrfalcon October 23 2010, 10:36:08 UTC

I know, man. Magic's Pawn. Dropped me in at the melodrama deep end.
/shakes head

Ahh, okay. Well, that sounds like I could properly manage it; it's just series where there's absolutely nothing but anger and tragedy and despair that make me want to write to the author and ask "Were you trying to prove some kind of point or just having some really bad days?" I mean, the ones where it never lets up. Soul destroying, they are. It's a real limiter on my ability to sail through dystopian novels, too. (Broke down crying at Huxley's Brave New World at some point for some reason.)
Speaking of incredibly dramatic moments, I can never take deaths in Shakespeare seriously. Especially since they announce them, and the worst has to be Hamlet's death. "The rest is silence", indeed. <.< I always have to suppress my laughter and try to keep a serious face ( ... )

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