Sff romance - suggestions and recommends

[Parson]

Being willing to trade your Saturday afternoons is the trick.

That is the infinitely more called for action.

 

[Toby Frost]

I think I'm just generally not very interested in relationships between characters or how they see themselves in sexual terms. Not that I think other readers are wrong for wanting that. I'm probably used to stories and films where a romantic subplot is tacked on to fill up space and/or totally unrealistic.

 

[Hex]

But your characters have marvellous relationships, Toby. Especially Suruk and Carveth, though I appreciate their interaction (with anyone) is not precisely romantic.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

But your characters have marvellous relationships, Toby. Especially Suruk and Carveth, though I appreciate their interaction (with anyone) is not precisely romantic.

Well. Precision is overrated.

 

[Danny McG]

It sometimes seems like
"I know! I'll write a romance but instead of a new shop girl in a highland village meeting the dark eyed lord of the manor I shall have a new tech officer meeting the dark eyed starship captain!
Hey Presto - I can then get my yarn onto two shelves in the bookshop"

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Wouldn't work, though. Very few books end up in more than one section of the bookstore.

And if you were hoping to increase sales by trading a Scottish setting for outer space, you'd be making a huge miscalculation, at least for the US romance market, where Scots are more popular than starship captains, and the Highlands more evocative of romance than outer space.

 

[RX-79G]

It sometimes seems like
"I know! I'll write a romance but instead of a new shop girl in a highland village meeting the dark eyed lord of the manor I shall have a new tech officer meeting the dark eyed starship captain!
Hey Presto - I can then get my yarn onto two shelves in the bookshop"

Next you'll be suggesting that you can take a cowboy story, put it is space and make a TV show called "Firefly" out of it.

 

[Danny McG]

Next you'll be suggesting that you can take a cowboy story, put it is space and make a TV show called "Firefly" out of it.

I loved Firefly - great series but finished too abruptly.

 

[Hex]

Let me know if anyone wants their Scottish Highlands romance read over to avoid egregious horrors like men called Tammy and the word "verra". No one says "verra". NO ONE.

 

[Danny McG]

I live in England about thirty miles south of the border with the bagpipe stranglers and have often been up there.
Quite a few times I've heard "verra" .
I'm verra sure of this. The noo. Och aye. Hoots mon.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

*opens popcorn*

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

What about "didna"? And "canna"? Surely they call all young women "lass"?

No?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

What about "didna"? And "canna"? Surely they call all young women "lass"?

No?

Nae, lassie.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

All my fondest illusions shattered. I'm heartbroken.

 

[Danny McG]

What about "didna"? And "canna"? Surely they call all young women "lass"?

No?

Star Trek Scottie lingo now!

 

[nixie]

Not sure about lass but I'm pretty sure I thought my name was hen till I started school

 

[Danny McG]

Genuine no messing THIS is how people speak in my hometown - i automatically do the 'eh' when speaking to friends/neighbours etc

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Genuine no messing THIS is how people speak in my hometown - i automatically do the 'eh' when speaking to friends/neighbours etc

I could follow that (just) - this is the classic Norn Iron clip. This is The Wee Man From Strabane:

 

[Abernovo]

I could follow that (just) - this is the classic Norn Iron clip. This is The Wee Man From Strabane:

Uh, fit? ;-)

 

[Danny McG]

I got most of it but I spent four months as a young apprentice in the seventies working with a guy with a quite similar accent
I think we need a new thread in the lounge - #a clip of your local dialect#

I remember that clip from, I think, It'll Be Alright On The Night