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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9635006" data-attributes="member: 177">As to whether romance has taken over genre fiction, let's look at the Hugo Awards nominees, and what genres readers give them, as seen in Goodreads (bold mine)...<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Genres: Science fiction, Science, Space opera, Hard science fiction</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - Genres: Science fiction, Romance novel, Time Travel Fiction</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Genres: Science fiction, Humor, Hard science fiction, Satire, Dark comedy, Dystopian Fiction, Science fiction comedy</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell - Genres: Fantasy Fiction, Romantic fantasy, Romance novel, Humor, Dark fantasy, Adventure fiction, Fantasy comedy</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher - Genres: Fantasy Fiction, Fairy tale, Dark fantasy</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett - Genres: Mystery, Fantasy Fiction, crime fiction, High fantasy, Dark fantasy</li>
</ul>So, out of six books considered to be at the top of the genre, only two of them would be considered to be at least in part &quot;romance&quot;.Clearly, then, non-romantasy books are being written, and are still being considered top of the genre.&nbsp; The complaint is then... what?&nbsp; That you actually have to look for a moment or two to find what you want?&nbsp; Never mind that a web search will sort the romance out for you anyway?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 9635006, member: 177"] As to whether romance has taken over genre fiction, let's look at the Hugo Awards nominees, and what genres readers give them, as seen in Goodreads (bold mine)... [LIST] [*][I]Alien Clay[/I] by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Genres: Science fiction, Science, Space opera, Hard science fiction [*][I]The Ministry of Time[/I] by Kaliane Bradley - Genres: Science fiction, [B]Romance novel[/B], Time Travel Fiction [*][I]Service Model[/I] by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Genres: Science fiction, Humor, Hard science fiction, Satire, Dark comedy, Dystopian Fiction, Science fiction comedy [*][I]Someone You Can Build a Nest In [/I]by John Wiswell - Genres: Fantasy Fiction, [B]Romantic fantasy, Romance novel[/B], Humor, Dark fantasy, Adventure fiction, Fantasy comedy [*][I]A Sorceress Comes to Call[/I] by T. Kingfisher - Genres: Fantasy Fiction, Fairy tale, Dark fantasy [*][I]The Tainted Cup[/I] by Robert Jackson Bennett - Genres: Mystery, Fantasy Fiction, crime fiction, High fantasy, Dark fantasy [/LIST] So, out of six books considered to be at the top of the genre, [I]only two of them[/I] would be considered to be at least in part "romance". Clearly, then, non-romantasy books are being written, and are still being considered top of the genre. The complaint is then... what? That you actually have to look for a moment or two to find what you want? Never mind that a web search will sort the romance out for you anyway? [/QUOTE]

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