Submitted by Kat Richardson (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 11:56pm.
It's entirely up to the store, too. Even though the publisher puts a genre on the spine most of the time, the store shelves it where they think their customers are most likely to expect it to be. Which could be... anywhere!
I do agree that even when they are pretty bleak--like Charlie Huston's Joe Pike books--there is some positive thing offered in exchange for the trials and nastiness the hero goes through in UF. I hope.
It's entirely up to the
It's entirely up to the store, too. Even though the publisher puts a genre on the spine most of the time, the store shelves it where they think their customers are most likely to expect it to be. Which could be... anywhere!
I do agree that even when they are pretty bleak--like Charlie Huston's Joe Pike books--there is some positive thing offered in exchange for the trials and nastiness the hero goes through in UF. I hope.