mutants

[Hypoxia]

Stories of sex amidst humans and mutants or hybrids -- are these better categorized as SciFi or NonHuman?Or Erotic Couplings?

(Or Loving Wives... hmmm, that could be interesting... )

 

[RejectReality]

Is the setting something divergent from the here and now? Fantasy world? Futuristic? If so, Sci-Fi&Fantasy.

If it's in the here and now ( or something parallel that resembles it for the most part ) and at least one of the primary characters is a mutant, then NonHuman.

If the setting is something otherworldly, but isn't a major element of the story, it may still be NonHuman.

You'll get more readers in NonHuman. Beyond that, there's very little difference in the way the readers react to stories so far as average score, likelihood to vote/comment or anything else. There are simply more people reading the NonHuman category.

Readers in the other categories aren't overly accepting of fantasy/non-human elements. At the very least, they tend to be passed over in large enough numbers that you aren't really going to gain any readership over what you would get in the low-readership SF&F or NH cats.

 

[HeyAll]

Side Question:

What if a story has heavy non-consent elements? Will it be better received in sci fi, or non human?

 

[StrangeLife]

Stories of sex amidst humans and mutants...

Not a bad idea...


http://comediva.com/images/stories/wolverine-cuts-sex.jpg

 

[RejectReality]

Don't believe that's exactly the kind of mutants he was thinking of LOL

But, on that note:

http://www.darkniciad.com/hotlink/chuck.jpg

 

[FAWCker]

The dividing line, for me, between Sci-Fi and Non-Human is the background of the story. The setting could be entirely contemporary, but if the characters are part of some ultra-high-tech agency that is tracking down dangerous mutants, I'd put the story in Sci-Fi. If all things are equal between our world and that of the story, except with the inclusion of mutants, then it's Non-human.

Side Question:

What if a story has heavy non-consent elements? Will it be better received in sci fi, or non human?

I would think Non-Human would be a better category for a story with non-con elements. Non-Human includes things like zombie rape and similar stories.

 

[RejectReality]

I would think Non-Human would be a better category for a story with non-con elements. Non-Human includes things like zombie rape and similar stories.

Don't think it matters. Danica and Ebon Genesis have a lot of non-con, and they went over just fine in Sci-Fi&Fantasy.

Of course, the assailants all get what's coming to them by the end of the story. That makes a big difference.

I've seen a lot of non-con & reluctance stories do fine in NonHuman as well.

Here again, I don't think there's that much divergence between the attitude of the readerships.

 

[FAWCker]

Here again, I don't think there's that much divergence between the attitude of the readerships.

I think, in general, readers of Sci-Fi and Non-human are looking more for a story than a sexual kink. This probably holds true for Romance as well. If a submission artfully incorporates elements applicable to other Lit genres (such as non-con and fetish, for example), then the readers are willing to accept it for the sake of the story. Romance may be a little less forgiving, though, considering that a lot of readers are looking for "sappy feel-good" tales in that category.

 

[Hypoxia]

Thanks for the suggestions! What I'm thinking of is a spinoff of my BRIDE OF KONG storyline. It's a mundane contemporary Terrestrial setting in a universe where KING KONG and JURASSIC PARK were documentary films. The nonhumans are initially human-Kong hybrids and modified Kong clones -- genetics-lab products. The spinoff would include laboratory hominid hybrids and mutants anthropomorphized from other animal families: cat- and dog- and bear-people, etc. I'm inspired a bit by Cordwainer Smith's classic THE BALLAD OF LOST C'MELL.

The only high-tech aspect is the labwork, all offstage, never seen in the story. No bubbling incubator tanks, digit-flashing gene-sequencers, radioactive mutation mechanisms. Certainly no time machines, spaceships, transporter beams -- only competent gene-splicers and -tweakers. Otherwise, it's the early 21st century world we live in.

Since I'm skipping the SciFi trappings, I guess NonHuman is the correct category. Thanks!