Today, we've got Australian romance writer Shona Husk visiting to talk Sci-Fi Erotic Romance with us. Ooh, smexy times in space. I love it. Take it away, Shona...
I read SFR (sci-fi
romance) and I’ve read erotic SFR and there are usually humans involved. I
don’t have anything against humans in sci-fi. I grew up watching Star Trek, I
love Doctor Who, Farscape and Battlestar Galactica…however when I decided to
give SFR a go I made the decision to leave humans out of it.
Maybe we haven’t got
there yet, maybe we’ve destroyed ourselves, or maybe when we find Decadent Moon
it will be the remains of an ancient civilization where species from many
planets mingled. I don’t know. But the freedom of not having to write anything
human is wonderful. It’s like writing fantasy but with tech instead of magic,
with aliens instead of elves or trolls. I get to create a galaxy and populate
with different cultures and species.
I love world
building.
I also get to think
about what kind of species would evolve on a marshy planet, they’d totally have
webbed fingers, and spots right?
A water planet?
Something octopus-like.
What about warfare
and disease and language?
There’s an Allied
Planetary Military, vaccinations (because if you’re smart enough to travel in
space you are smart enough to be able to stop the worst viruses from hitching
ride). For language I deliberated on some kind of magic translator tech, but
then decided to go with a much simpler solution, Allied Abbreviated, a simple
language that united the alliance and allows the military to function, but
exists alongside all the other languages spoken in the galaxy.
I didn’t need a human
on Decadent Moon. Instead we see it through the alien’s eyes. We aren’t shocked
by the different species or the tech or anything else. It is just part of their
world. For a short time we become alien and get to go exploring.
I had so much fun
writing Lunar Exposure that I have gone back to the Moon and written a couple
of other stories (currently with my editor). One might have involved tentacles
for Kylie :)
Lunar Exposure
Bounty hunter Callen wants to capture Noga—a terrorist—both for the money
and for revenge. But catching a criminal on the sensual resort of Decadent Moon
without giving in to all the destination’s sexual pleasures is harder than it
seems.
Haliday is the darling of the media, a socialite known as much for her
casual relationships as she is for her charitable donations. No one knows she
hunts down criminals.
Lust and ambition clash, and Callen and Haliday will have to find a way to
work together, despite the distraction of their passionate bond. To succeed
they must trust each other, something neither Callen nor Haliday is willing to
do.
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