![]() ![]() The heroine isn’t just trapped with the hero on a road trip or during a snow storm, she’s likely been abducted in her nightie by evil aliens, who have crash-landed on an ice planet, leaving her to freeze to death until he finds her, or she’s been sentenced to a prison planet where either the extreme weather or the other residents are trying to kill them both. Sure, the characters might meet in a bar and end up in a one-night stand like they do in Cara Bristol’s Trapped with a Cyborg, but it’s far more likely their meeting is more…unusual. Heroes’ and heroines’ meet-cutes tend towards the more extreme in SFR. So we’ve covered the popular variations on archetypal heroes, let’s look at the more common variations on the archetypal romance arc. ![]() Reasons #6-10 SFR Kicks Trope Butt: Sensual Setups ![]() Following is the second part of Selene Grace Silver’s completely unscientific and statistically dubious survey of her own thoughts about the top ten dominating SFR tropes and why they function like other romance tropes, only on steroids. ![]()
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