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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1338711" data-attributes="member: 151"><p>Louis L'amour and Larry McMurtry have been selling huge numbers for decades. Maybe you've heard of 'Lonesome Dove' or "The Sacketts'? Not exactly starving, either, the western genre.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Sword of Truth series, at least the second one, had some fairly graphic demon sex and borderline BSDM material in it that I could have done without, frankly. I stopped reading Thomas Covenant after the rape scene in the first book (and No, I'd rather not discuss that series merits). But I don't know that I'd call it pervasive in that series. GRRM's "Song of Ice and Fire" has some graphic scenes, but I wouldn't call them gratuitious (although Daenrys gets plenty of sex scenes, early on). By and large, pervasive isn't really what I'd use to describe them, though. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun: 4 books, 1980-1982</p><p>Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle, 3 books, 1980-1983</p><p>Terry Brook's Shanara Series, 3 books, 1977-1985</p><p>Eric Van Lustbaders Sunset Warrior, 5 books, 1977-1980</p><p> </p><p>and you mention a few of the tons of others. But you're right, in the 1980s, it did get more pervasive. But that has primarily to do with one factor, IMHO....D&D. In 1980-1982, D&D was white-hot, and gamers suddenly made fantasy a hot literary topic. And young fans wanted more of the same, so suddenly we got lots of not always subtle knockoffs...and many books based on people's D&D campaigns! (Joel Rosenberg, Steven Brust, etc.) [<em>side note: some D&D games should be as good as Brust's earlier books <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />]</em></p><p> </p><p>I just think this guy overstates his case. He forgets Sturgeon's Law.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 1338711, member: 151"] Louis L'amour and Larry McMurtry have been selling huge numbers for decades. Maybe you've heard of 'Lonesome Dove' or "The Sacketts'? Not exactly starving, either, the western genre. The Sword of Truth series, at least the second one, had some fairly graphic demon sex and borderline BSDM material in it that I could have done without, frankly. I stopped reading Thomas Covenant after the rape scene in the first book (and No, I'd rather not discuss that series merits). But I don't know that I'd call it pervasive in that series. GRRM's "Song of Ice and Fire" has some graphic scenes, but I wouldn't call them gratuitious (although Daenrys gets plenty of sex scenes, early on). By and large, pervasive isn't really what I'd use to describe them, though. Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun: 4 books, 1980-1982 Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle, 3 books, 1980-1983 Terry Brook's Shanara Series, 3 books, 1977-1985 Eric Van Lustbaders Sunset Warrior, 5 books, 1977-1980 and you mention a few of the tons of others. But you're right, in the 1980s, it did get more pervasive. But that has primarily to do with one factor, IMHO....D&D. In 1980-1982, D&D was white-hot, and gamers suddenly made fantasy a hot literary topic. And young fans wanted more of the same, so suddenly we got lots of not always subtle knockoffs...and many books based on people's D&D campaigns! (Joel Rosenberg, Steven Brust, etc.) [[i]side note: some D&D games should be as good as Brust's earlier books :)][/i] I just think this guy overstates his case. He forgets Sturgeon's Law. [/QUOTE]
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