Non-Human vs Sci-fi/Fantasy

[GoldenMaia]

So, I write a story about sexy-robot 6k.

What would make it a better fit for non-human vs sci-fi/fantasy? (People who read non-human--what do you want/expect from those stories over what you might find in Sci-fi/Fantasy?)

Do werewolf stories do better in Non-Human? Do people expect the Fantasy to be 'high fantasy'?

 

[RejectReality]

There's generally a larger readership in NonHuman, but I believe a robot story would be accepted by more of the smaller readership in Sci-Fi&Fantasy.

In the end, I think it will do about the same in either category, and neither readership is going to feel it's out of place.

Toss a coin, go with your gut, or whatever works. I don't think there's a wrong choice.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

My two cents.

If the story focuses on the relationship between the human and the robot, and all the particulars of that, put it in Non-Human.

If the story focuses more on technology and the world in which the couple find themselves, put it in sci-fi.

It's not a big deal either way.

 

[MissPrim]

Sci-fi vs. Non-Human

When I wrote and posted The Non-Standard Man, about a sentient robot, I put in the sci-fi category. It did well there.

I think had I posted in Non-Human it might not have had as many readers. My sense is that that niche is smaller than the sci-fi readers.

The non-human category seems to be more about paranormal entities and a robot is not paranormal.

 

[Hypoxia]

Mea culpa: I've written a couple of SciFi pieces but no Erotic Horror nor Nonhuman. Yet. Except maybe where the human siblings are transformed into banana slugs. But that was bizarre Incest.

Anyway, I'd triage the tendencies roughly as:

* Nonhuman: human sex with fleshy (non-metallic) sentient critters, maybe ET-alien, or gene-modified, or mutant-hybrid, like the Kong-clones in Bride of Kong -- but I put that is SciFi because the nonhuman sex was only a the very end.

* Fantasy: human sex with acknowledged fantasy or magickal entities such as unicorns, orcs, elves, maybe vampires and were-critters.

* Erotic Horror: Terrifying human sex with demons, succubi, incubi, ghosts. I've written a couple with ghosts but they were Incest. Maybe EH is really really dark Fantasy.

* SciFi: Human sex with robots or time-travelers or humanoid aliens, or on other worlds (non-magickal), or in the future (maybe dystopian), or involving new inventions.

Those are my perceptions. YMMV.

 

[oggbashan]

Whichever you choose, some anonymous person will claim you got it wrong.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

Whichever you choose, some anonymous person will claim you got it wrong.

Ain't that the truth.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have a general question about Non human and sci fi.

It seems like both categories are heavily dominated by chapter series, so wondering how a short stand alone story does over there?

 

[AMoveableBeast]

I have a general question about Non human and sci fi.

It seems like both categories are heavily dominated by chapter series, so wondering how a short stand alone story does over there?

They do fine. It's a generous category with a good fanbase regardless. There are many great stand-alone stories. It just lends itself to the long, chaptered stuff because the commercial market plays out that way in the genre.

 

[lovecraft68]

They do fine. It's a generous category with a good fanbase regardless. There are many great stand-alone stories. It just lends itself to the long, chaptered stuff because the commercial market plays out that way in the genre.

Their fan base is rabid(pun intended for the NH folks) you can see in the yearly awards, they are the ones that come out and vote. Too bad that's not the case for most categories.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

Their fan base is rabid(pun intended for the NH folks) you can see in the yearly awards, they are the ones that come out and vote. Too bad that's not the case for most categories.

Honestly, I think it is the difference in how the fanbases are attracted. Specifically, in the difference, sexually, between the categories.

It seems, to my eye anyway, that readers of Sci-Fi and Non-Human are far less interested in sexual satisfaction than they are entertainment and enjoyment. While most stories ARE sexual, this is generally a smaller factor in the story or set of stories. When a fan follows a sci-fi writer, they are often doing it because they have been affected emotionally. The stories matter to them, not just on the level of an itch that needs to be scratch, but on a legitimate one, a personal one. They are fans of the author and the story.

In categories like Non-Con or Fetish or Incest, the sexual draw is often the main, and sometimes the only, element. The reader is primarily trying to get off. If that happens, they are overjoyed. They may vote, maybe even leave a comment. "This was so hot!" "I came so hard!" Satisfy them with enough stories, and they will even remember you, look for you when the need arises, so to speak. But it's not about you. It's about the kink. They are less likely, I think, to be affected in a meaningful way, and far less likely to follow you into other categories or support you in contests and whatnot. People who stop to watch a juggler for a minute and say, "Wow. Look at all those bowling pins" aren't fans, they're spectators. And some of the readers in those categories fit that bill...if one were to masturbate to juggling, that is.

Not to say that it doesn't happen ever. It does. And there are stories that are grounded hip-deep in sexual gratification that do cultivate proper fans, but it is much rarer, I think.

In the other categories, it isn't a simple byproduct of exposure, it's WHY they read.

 

[lovecraft68]

Honestly, I think it is the difference in how the fanbases are attracted. Specifically, in the difference, sexually, between the categories.

It seems, to my eye anyway, that readers of Sci-Fi and Non-Human are far less interested in sexual satisfaction than they are entertainment and enjoyment. While most stories ARE sexual, this is generally a smaller factor in the story or set of stories. When a fan follows a sci-fi writer, they are often doing it because they have been affected emotionally. The stories matter to them, not just on the level of an itch that needs to be scratch, but on a legitimate one, a personal one. They are fans of the author and the story.

In categories like Non-Con or Fetish or Incest, the sexual draw is often the main, and sometimes the only, element. The reader is primarily trying to get off. If that happens, they are overjoyed. They may vote, maybe even leave a comment. "This was so hot!" "I came so hard!" Satisfy them with enough stories, and they will even remember you, look for you when the need arises, so to speak. But it's not about you. It's about the kink. They are less likely, I think, to be affected in a meaningful way, and far less likely to follow you into other categories or support you in contests and whatnot. People who stop to watch a juggler for a minute and say, "Wow. Look at all those bowling pins" aren't fans, they're spectators. And some of the readers in those categories fit that bill...if one were to masturbate to juggling, that is.

Not to say that it doesn't happen ever. It does. And there are stories that are grounded hip-deep in sexual gratification that do cultivate proper fans, but it is much rarer, I think.

In the other categories, it isn't a simple byproduct of exposure, it's WHY they read.

I agree, the others are kink specific whereas NH/SCi fi and at times EH are more story driven and the sex although 'appreciated' is another of many moving parts in the story.