Also known as you never know who knows who on the internet...or six degrees of techno-geekery perhaps.
Today I was reading blogs on Google Reader (I am a convert to the blog aggregator concept) and saw that Elizabeth Bear had an interview on Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing, which is a podcast I check out semi-regularly and is quite cool. So I trundled over to iTunes to download the ep and started listening on my iPod while I did some housework the old-fashioned physical way. At the end the interviewer asked Elizabeth one question he'd picked from his Twitter followers.
So, he says, here's the question from BlueTyson. At which point I started laughing. Because here in the real world, BlueTyson is known as my big brother (who does a good line in speedy reviews of mainly Sci-Fi and Superhero type books and stories if you're into that). So there you go. You never know who might be listening or popping up somewhere. Which is probably a good reason to play nice online : ) It also led to me discovering big bro is on Twitter because I hadn't gotten around to telling him I was on yet. The geek is strong in our family. Though he wins, given he is generally employed in computing type roles and uses Linux lol.
In other six degrees moments, I'm off tomorrow to attend a MS fundraising luncheon down at the folks. Mum asked me a while back and I said sure, given I figure you have to support charities that share your initials and do read-a-thons with kids as fundraising (make them catch the book bug young, I say) and are trying to find a cure for a nasty disease. Then she added "there's some writer speaking...her name's Nicola Marsh". Oh yeah, that's my friend, Nic.
Showing posts with label big bro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big bro. Show all posts
October 31, 2008
January 18, 2007
Blue for Blue
So, the bro has a blog about books and comics etc that deal with superheroes or people doing super stuff...it includes straight super heroes, your super spies like Bond, James (omg Daniel Craig is hot) Bond, and your vampire slayer type stuff.
His romance category was very sad and consisted only of an old Nora Book...Night Shadow or Night Shield (I get it mixed up). So I have been giving him suggestions for other romance stuff, which given his particular interest, has leant heavily to the paranormal end of the genre.
In the course of our IM conversations I've have smacked him for his tendency to call romance porn.
Now what is pornography vs erotica vs romance is a sliding scale and different folks will have different value judgments on this. And many wiser heads than mine have attempted to define these things. But for the education of the bro, here's my definitions.
Pornography. Is all about sex. No-one particularly cares who the characters are, the characters probably don't care who the characters are. You don't care what happens after the sex. The sex is the point.
Romance. The relationship is the point. There's a happy ever after (HEA) ending. You should believe the characters will be together forever. Without the HEA, it's technically not a romance. You follow the characters over the course of the story and care about the relationship between the hero and heroine or heroine and heroine or hero and hero depending on what floats your boat. There can be sex. But it's not the point of the story. Romance can range from Betty Neels to steamy, steamy, steamy but it's the relationship that should give you the satisfaction at the end. As a huge, sweeping, massive generalisation, a lot of guys don't get romance. That's okay, a lot (again, I'm GENERALISING) of girls don't get hard SF. Or aussie rules. Or maybe guys get distracted by the sex...they can be easily distracted by that ; ) If you're a guy who loves romance or a girl who loves hard SF and aussie rules, then that's good too!
Erotica. Sex is still the point but you should be at least interested in the characters and the story. There doesn't have to be a happy ever after.
Erotic romance/romantica. Will have a LOT of sex. In probably more than the average permutations. The plot probably revolves around the sex to a fairly significant degree. But there will be a relationship (though again this is open to some unusal permutations...menage a trois which don't occur often in straight romance, multiple partners...(Gail Dayton has a cool Luna series with polygamy) and despite all the sex that relationship still should have a happy ever after and the achievement of that HEA is still the satisfying thing.
That's my take. Others have different views, I'm sure.
His romance category was very sad and consisted only of an old Nora Book...Night Shadow or Night Shield (I get it mixed up). So I have been giving him suggestions for other romance stuff, which given his particular interest, has leant heavily to the paranormal end of the genre.
In the course of our IM conversations I've have smacked him for his tendency to call romance porn.
Now what is pornography vs erotica vs romance is a sliding scale and different folks will have different value judgments on this. And many wiser heads than mine have attempted to define these things. But for the education of the bro, here's my definitions.
Pornography. Is all about sex. No-one particularly cares who the characters are, the characters probably don't care who the characters are. You don't care what happens after the sex. The sex is the point.
Romance. The relationship is the point. There's a happy ever after (HEA) ending. You should believe the characters will be together forever. Without the HEA, it's technically not a romance. You follow the characters over the course of the story and care about the relationship between the hero and heroine or heroine and heroine or hero and hero depending on what floats your boat. There can be sex. But it's not the point of the story. Romance can range from Betty Neels to steamy, steamy, steamy but it's the relationship that should give you the satisfaction at the end. As a huge, sweeping, massive generalisation, a lot of guys don't get romance. That's okay, a lot (again, I'm GENERALISING) of girls don't get hard SF. Or aussie rules. Or maybe guys get distracted by the sex...they can be easily distracted by that ; ) If you're a guy who loves romance or a girl who loves hard SF and aussie rules, then that's good too!
Erotica. Sex is still the point but you should be at least interested in the characters and the story. There doesn't have to be a happy ever after.
Erotic romance/romantica. Will have a LOT of sex. In probably more than the average permutations. The plot probably revolves around the sex to a fairly significant degree. But there will be a relationship (though again this is open to some unusal permutations...menage a trois which don't occur often in straight romance, multiple partners...(Gail Dayton has a cool Luna series with polygamy) and despite all the sex that relationship still should have a happy ever after and the achievement of that HEA is still the satisfying thing.
That's my take. Others have different views, I'm sure.
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