Bitchery Reader Marie forwarded me a link to a very intriguing series of synopses of Racheline Maltese’s favorite romantic pairings in Sci Fi/Fantasy. As Marie says, “It’s all the more interesting to read because Racheline includes a variety of non-hetero-normative relationships, including one that can only really happen in speculative fiction. If Romancelandia gets in a furor over the possibility of two guys getting it on, what would they make of Pie’oh’Pah?.”
Good point. The possibilities of Sci Fi and fantasy pairings certainly bends the romance genre’s somewhat heterocentric expectations (though I hold my breath that this is slowly changing for the better as so many readers embrace gay and lesbian romance).
Racheline’s list has got me thinking, and I’m sure Candy will rise up and trump any of my thoughts on this one, because my ability to remember anything exactly correctly is known to be absolutely crap. What are your favorite romance hero and heroine pairs? It doesn’t have to be thep protagonists, certainly. But who’s your fave?
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