[LMB] Two Reviews

[Mark A. Mandel]

From: Agnes Charrel-Berthillier <agnes at charrel.net>

And it fits the pattern to a T: 90% of the review covers the 
relationship between Dag and Fawn, but even though one of the reviewers 
seems to read SF the only mention of world-building is in terms of "not 
negatives", ie. it gets good mark for being unobtrusive and not impeding 
the story [1].

Agnes

[1] As a primary SF&F and sometimes romance (mostly Regency) reader I 
would have been much more puzzled by that had I not recently read a few 
"futuristic" romances (including one of the Jayne Castle recently 
mentioned on the list). The world-building was... pathetic.

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Speaking of pathetic... anyone remember a book called, iirc, Floating Worlds? I bought it many years ago. It was sf, or presented as sf. It involved human settlement in artificial hollow spheres orbiting Neptune. And it DIDN'T MAKE SENSE to me. The more I read, the more baffled and irritated I grew... till I suddenly realized, "Oh, this isn't sf at all. It's Ro-o-omance, so none of the 'science', or its social implication, has to make sense at all!" 

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