Before We Begin… While I love science-fiction romance, it’s also important to note that I regularly taught a college class, during my years in PhD-earning service, about genre—primarily High Fantasy. One of the class’s concerns was to distinguish between different formal and literary genres, and we explored the distinctions between subgenres of fantasy and science fiction, as well as their tropes and the sorts of stories they better enabled an author to tell. Some of my favor
Preamble Caveat right up front: The author, Urna Semper, is the pen name for my friend Parrish Baker, a mentor and one of our editors at Tender and Tempting Tales. We have appeared and are set to appear in anthologies together, so what’s good for that gander is obviously good for this goose. I also beta-read quite a few of Parrish’s stories before he submits them to anthologies these days—both Rac and T&TT—so I’m fairly familiar with the range of his work. So why am I reviewi
