'50 shades of...' scifi and fantasy...

[Angreal28]

Now i've got your attention haha...

I recently read a few Chris Bunch books (Seer King and Dragonmaster series) and was surprised as to how many sex scenes there were in the books and also how detailed the writing about them was

I named the thread this because I showed one to the wife, who has of course read 50 shades of grey, as a comparison. She is a English Lit graduate and an educated reader so I was teasing her about reading it (she gives as good as she gets, everything new I start I get asked 'how many dragons are in it this time?'). Her usual choice of read is something a bit more 'classic'.

Anyway, wondering if anyone has come across scifi/fantasy books that have a similar sort of approach to the naughty bits? I'd be lying if I said I didn't find those bits entertaining...

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Sherrilyn Kenyon gets pretty racy, I'm told.

 

[K. Riehl]

You might try Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books, the main character serves her God through pain/pleasure. There's a lot more to the series but that is a central feature.

 

[The Judge]

I'd echo Sherrilyn Kenyon, though I only managed to get about 50 pages into the only one I read, as the writing was... well... about on the level of 50 Greys' as far as I understand of the latter. I think also Richard Morgan's sex scenes can get quite hot and bothered, though if I'm remembering correctly they are between homosexual couples, in case that's an issue for you. (I think Vertigo has posted elsewhere on the issue, so might be worth doing a search for his comments.)

Meanwhile, I'll this thread over to General Book Discussion where you should get a bit more attention for the question -- Book Search is intended for those members who vaguely recall a book read a long time ago but can't now put a name to it and want help finding it again.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Well I have never read 50 shades (I did read the first 5 or so pages and I felt a bit nauseous at the writing).

Peter Hamiltons sex scenes are fairly inventive. There is a scene where a guy is a multiple (one consciousness spread between multiple bodies) and also youth/vigour/beauty seem to be a running social theme with Hamilton.

 

[Hex]

Sarah Monette, but they're mainly men. Or Maia, I guess, by Richard Adams.

 

[WaylanderToo]

Try Laurel K Hamilton - Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series... the first few are actually quite entertaining but then nookie takes over - and not for the better

 

[farntfar]

Not really graphic images but it's the pain bit that leads me to suggest the GAP series by Stephen Donaldson.
The heroine is regularly abused physically by the villain, and indeed on occasion by one of the heroes.
(Donaldson's heroes are often fairly abiguous in their heroism)

As I say, not exactly graphic, but described in a way that I found quite disturbing.

 

[tinkerdan]

I'm not sure about 50 shades because I've not read that and the other person here who reads mostly romance novels hasn't. I've nothing to compare to.

I have noticed that certain genre do tend to have more explicit sex and perhaps erotica and those include but are not limited to all the Punk,such as steam; gear; cyber and those include the gaslite or gaslamp and much of the paranormal offerings which include everything from the magical to the mystical. And some of those I have read, though my thought is that those tend to hover around the descriptiveness in the more conventional romance novels.

Again it goes back to not being familiar with how explicit the grey books are.

I was a bit surprised with John Shirley's series recently called A Song Called Youth in that though the first book that I've read has no cyberpunk elements at all despite the tease on the cover it does contain some odd bits of erotica expected from the punk genre. I'm going to have to read the other two books before I outright dismiss it as having no cyperpunk; but so far it definitely has none in the first book.

 

[Angreal28]

I've heard that punk can get a tad odd at times, interesting a few people mention it.

Grey gets described as 'mummy porn' which made me chuckle. The 2nd book onwards apparently has a story (says the wife)

I'll look out for some of the titles mentioned, my reading list is stupid long at the moment!

 

[Vertigo]

I'd echo Sherrilyn Kenyon, though I only managed to get about 50 pages into the only one I read, as the writing was... well... about on the level of 50 Greys' as far as I understand of the latter. I think also Richard Morgan's sex scenes can get quite hot and bothered, though if I'm remembering correctly they are between homosexual couples, in case that's an issue for you. (I think Vertigo has posted elsewhere on the issue, so might be worth doing a search for his comments.)

Meanwhile, I'll this thread over to General Book Discussion where you should get a bit more attention for the question -- Book Search is intended for those members who vaguely recall a book read a long time ago but can't now put a name to it and want help finding it again.

Homosexual in his fantasy series, A Land Fit for Heroes, but heterosexual in his SF series, Takeshi Kovacs. In both cases really quite explicit.