SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"

[ami_angelwings@urusai.social]

@glyph @mcc yeah they're all harems

[eschaton@mastodon.social]

@mcc A couple decades ago, I noticed at my local Borders that every single book on the “new fiction” table had “a novel” somewhere on the cover. It’s become a game, finding new fiction from a mainstream publisher of *any* genre that doesn’t have some such annotation.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@ami_angelwings @glyph Can't tell yet if "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a harem novel but it's pretty good

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mcc @ami_angelwings okay how many of these are real

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@glyph @ami_angelwings "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a real book about a bunch of *extremely* queer women and the book I just checked out from the library actually did claim on the first page to be by "the bestselling author of the Licanius trilogy". As far as I know the others are fake.

[uberpinguin@mastodon.social]

@mcc "Book 1 of a series the author never continued"

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@uberpinguin I really want there to be a Path of the Final Form book 2!!

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@mcc I read one that said “by the author of Earth”

[glennseto@mastodon.social]

@mcc @ShadSterling Someone trying to sneak religious scripture into genre fiction again...

[nev@status.nevillepark.ca]

@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph confirmed, would absolutely not pick it up based on title

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@ami_angelwings @glyph @nev for the record it is *very* gay and its teeth are filed to the finest of points

[nev@status.nevillepark.ca]

@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph I'd have to make a classy looking dust cover for it. Not even making it look like a literary novel. Just like a slightly more highbrow spec fic novel.

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@ShadSterling @mcc (trying to resist the temptation to cc in the actual author, he's on here)

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@conniptions @mcc I would pick it up just based on the title and probably be very surprised by the content, it would seem