4th November 2010, 9:55 AM
Quote:Sequels not by the original author often do have a trend for turning out badly.
Yeah, Gentry Lee completely trashed the Rama series. The first Rama book was a really great scifi story that focused on the awe and the danger of an ancient alien ship. The later books became increasingly bizarre and focused more on petty characters and politics and some pointless, icky sex scenes. I think I started the fourth book in the series but never finished, I'm not even sure why I toughed it out that long. I could read the original Rama book a dozen times, but I'm never reading the other ones again.
Quote:I would guess, though, that there are more sex scenes in sci-fi than fantasy. Between the pulp sci-fi legacy and that sci-fi is, I think, often written for a somewhat older audience than fantasy, it's probably more common there.
I know Arthur C. Clarke's books rarely, if ever, had any kind of sex in them, but I've really only read a smattering of scifi outside of him.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.