why "science fantasy" has such an uneasy blending, and likewise romantic mystery...
Thinking more about this and went "Er." But where does this leave steampunk, which is pretty much retro-science/historical fantasy. And more importantly, where does it leave the great bantering detective couples - Lord Peter & Harriet, Nick and Nora, dozens of TV incarnations (Steele, Moonlighting, Hart to Hart, etc.)?
Of course it's easy to do romantic mystery badly - it's all too appallingly easy to write anything badly - but seems to me it can be done well as well.
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Thinking more about this and went "Er." But where does this leave steampunk, which is pretty much retro-science/historical fantasy. And more importantly, where does it leave the great bantering detective couples - Lord Peter & Harriet, Nick and Nora, dozens of TV incarnations (Steele, Moonlighting, Hart to Hart, etc.)?
Of course it's easy to do romantic mystery badly - it's all too appallingly easy to write anything badly - but seems to me it can be done well as well.