Sci-Fi in Sci-Fi/Fantasy

[Writer61]

I am currently working on a new series set in the near future, centred on a space program. It will be my first piece of Sci-Fi. Looking at the SF/F top list, most of the stories are fantasy, which makes me wonder if I would be better posting in a category that better suits the type of sex involved (say EC or Group) using a Sci-Fi tag?

Do any authors have experience with this?

 

[Bazzle]

Well... @AlinaX and I have been posting sci-fi type stories in Fetish with some wins...but some misses. Last week I posted one part of the series into Loving Wives and got 2 comments one of which was "why has this moved from Fetish?" Alina has also posted some the series in Sci-Fi if the topic is more Sci-Fiable. So in answer to your question...how much are you loading the Sci-Fi element into the story? How much is it EC/Groupy?

 

[Writer61]

how much are you loading the Sci-Fi element into the story? How much is it EC/Groupy

The first part, which is written, is mostly SF but could be EC. The second is basically GS in space. The third, largely unwritten, will basically be a continuation of the second.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Do any authors have experience with this?

My Coleoidphilia trilogy is hard SciFi (and harder sex), it did fine in SF&F.

My novel is many things, but - again - hard SciFi is one of them. I posted it it Novels & Novellas, but rather wish I’d gone with Lesbian instead (it has some hetero sex, and I didn’t want to give away too much, but it was still a mistake).

SF&F has relatively low views, but only put a SciFi story in another category if it has a dominant theme consistent with that category.

 

[Bazzle]

The first part, which is written, is mostly SF but could be EC. The second is basically GS in space. The third, largely unwritten, will basically be a continuation of the second.

Put it where the story most suits the overall feel. I think people are comfortable in most genres with a bit of Sci Fi unless you are giving them @EmilyMiller's tenacle sex in incest...which would be wrong...unless the tenacles were having sex with each other.

EC is a high viewing dumping ground of things that overlap genres and don't quite fit elsewhere?

 

[EmilyMiller]

tenacle sex in incest

And given that octopuses typically die after shepherding their eggs to hatching, necrophilia as well.

 

[EmilyMiller]

And given that octopuses typically die after shepherding their eggs to hatching, necrophilia as well.

It’s actually a striking example of animal intelligence not shaped by culture in the way ours is.

 

[Writer61]

And given that octopuses typically die after shepherding their eggs to hatching, necrophilia as well.

I thought snuff themes were banned here.

 

[AlinaX]

Lots of sci-fi in SF&F.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I am currently working on a new series set in the near future, centred on a space program. It will be my first piece of Sci-Fi. Looking at the SF/F top list, most of the stories are fantasy, which makes me wonder if I would be better posting in a category that better suits the type of sex involved (say EC or Group) using a Sci-Fi tag?

Do any authors have experience with this?

It's SciFi, not Fantasy, but so what? The answer is still in the category title. Sci-Fi.

 

[Soixenta]

I have read several science fiction stories on Literotica, both far future and near future.

I am writing a science-fantasy story myself now.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Put it where the story most suits the overall feel.

Yep, this.

Best criteria in my mind: What's the biggest thematic element of the story, and does it have a corresponding category? So whatever thing you have, that, if you took it out or changed it, would most radically alter the story. If the Sci-Fi is just a backdrop and you put no real effort into worldbuilding or exploring it at all, maybe it shouldn't go in Sci-Fi because you'll get SF&F people who'll be unhappy you basically went "sex, but, uh, space?" But if the setting actually has a part of the plot, I think you're pretty guaranteed SF&F as your best category for that.

 

[Britva415]

I am currently working on a new series set in the near future, centred on a space program. It will be my first piece of Sci-Fi. Looking at the SF/F top list, most of the stories are fantasy, which makes me wonder if I would be better posting in a category that better suits the type of sex involved (say EC or Group) using a Sci-Fi tag?

Do any authors have experience with this?

I think that if all the sci-fi is doing in the story is providing some trappings of a setting, then, categorizing according to sexual content is called for.

But if it's a "real" sci-fi story, that is to say, a story which couldn't happen at all in a different setting with different technologies or beings or speculative elements or "powers," then, that's more likely to tickle the fans of the SF/F category and alienate fans of other categories.

 

[Voboy]

I wrote a series about interstellar warfare against aliens. And, of course, about sex.

It never occurred to me to place it anywhere but in SF/F. It was clear to me, and remains clear to me, that this site wants those stories in SF/F.

Forget about the "top lists." If people are flying around in space, and that millieu is critical to the way the story is told, then it belongs in SF/F, period.

 

[Bamagan]

I am currently working on a new series set in the near future, centred on a space program. It will be my first piece of Sci-Fi. Looking at the SF/F top list, most of the stories are fantasy, which makes me wonder if I would be better posting in a category that better suits the type of sex involved (say EC or Group) using a Sci-Fi tag?

Do any authors have experience with this?

My one foray into SF/F was contemporary SciFi and it was largely invisible. There are probably confounding factors, such as it being a somewhat humorous homage to The X-Files and similar 'serious' content. It's a single data point, so don't put too much weight on it, but my impression is that the readers there don't have much appetite for SF or Fantasy unless it features a good bit of world-building (or at least world renovation).

 

[deathlynx]

Agreed that you shouldn't put too much stock in the Top Picks in any category. It changes frequently and inconsistently.

As for Fantasy vs. Sc-Fi, it might be because fantastic nature tends to be more integral to the plot than sci-fi nature does. On the other hand, I've found sci-fi fans tend to be more likely to over-analyze the genre than fantasy fans do. Probably because science is all about explaining things whereas magic is the foundation of fantasy and is inherently unexplainable.

 

[Voboy]

Agreed that you shouldn't put too much stock in the Top Picks in any category. It changes frequently and inconsistently.

As for Fantasy vs. Sc-Fi, it might be because fantastic nature tends to be more integral to the plot than sci-fi nature does. On the other hand, I've found sci-fi fans tend to be more likely to over-analyze the genre than fantasy fans do. Probably because science is all about explaining things whereas magic is the foundation of fantasy and is inherently unexplainable.

I've written both, successfully. It doesn't surprise me that Fantasy does better than SF on a smut site: it's generally a LOT easier to work fuckscenes into a fantasy piece than into an SF one, in my limited experience.