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Subject: Re: Journal Entry- Travellogue 194 / 0916
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From: png@netcom.COM (Peter Glaskowsky)
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By malloy@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy):
> 
> It's clear to see, though, that his fiction is never going to get
> professionally published unless standards change -- the Journal Entry
> fiction has too much graphic sex for the 'mainstream' publishers to accept
> them, and they spend too much time with character development and plot for
> the 'adult fiction' market (at least judging from the books I've read. 
> 
> But I'd like to hope I'm wrong; I'd like to believe there was enough people
> who like erotic fiction that doesn't sacrifice characterization and plot
> for the sake of more sex for writers like Elf to make money selling their
> work.

For what it's worth, there's a LOT of very explicit sex in science
fiction. I've seen books with outright bestiality in them, plus quite a
lot of furry-meets-human, furry-boffs-human stuff, too.

andrew j. offutt (writing as John Cleve) wrote the "Spaceways" series of
adult sf some years ago; there were about ten of them, and they were
sold through the normal B. Dalton's/Waldenbooks type bookstores despite
having as much sex as Elf's stuff. (Well, as much as Elf's tamer stuff.
:-) There were furries in the "Spaceways" books, too. One book was
titled "Purrfect Pleasures"...

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