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ctg · 21st August 2007, 03:42 PM

Lin, I think I understand what do you mean with the ADULT and YOUNG ADULT market in content-wise. 'Sex in the space' might sell very well to certain audiences, to exaggerate this point, there is a profitable market for 'homoerotic Spock and Kirk' science-fiction, and it certainly isn't mainstream science-fiction. (Note that the story still has to be plausible or it will not work and you won't get sales!)

If you take a step downm and think Hunter S. Thompson work and especially his most famous novella (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). You can almost immediately see that the 'science-part' works extremely well wit the fiction. On top of everything, the story is very plausible, because it is based on the actual research.

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ctg weaver of the unseen Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Greater London Posts: 568	Re: YA or Adult, best market for SF? Lin, I think I understand what do you mean with the ADULT and YOUNG ADULT market in content-wise. 'Sex in the space' might sell very well to certain audiences, to exaggerate this point, there is a profitable market for 'homoerotic Spock and Kirk' science-fiction, and it certainly isn't mainstream science-fiction. (Note that the story still has to be plausible or it will not work and you won't get sales!) If you take a step downm and think Hunter S. Thompson work and especially his most famous novella (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). You can almost immediately see that the 'science-part' works extremely well wit the fiction. On top of everything, the story is very plausible, because it is based on the actual research.