This is scifi?

Amazon ^ | 9/25/15

[pabianice]

I generally cruise Amazon each month looking for new scifi. Well, look at the first page

Scifi Romance: Star Crossed (Alien Invasion Time Travel Romance) (Paranormal New Adult Fantasy Short Stories)Sep 18, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Linda Mathers

MYSTERY:THRILLER:SUSPENSE: ROMANCE BOOK 1 (TESS) EROTICA SHORT STORIES NOVEL ROMANTIC SERIES: Contemporary Romance...Sep 19, 2015 | Kindle eBook by SCARLETT J. ROSE

Tyger Eye: A Paranormal Shifter Romance (Cursed Love Book 1)Sep 16, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Sandra O'Conner

Romance: Science Fiction Romance: Taken By Alien Desire: An Alien Romance Collection: (SciFi Alien Abduction Anthologies...Sep 20, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Red Lily Publishing

Romance: Bonded to the Alien Prince: (Scifi Alien BBW Romance) (New Adult Alien Invasion Space Romance)Sep 19, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Ruby Scott

Close Liaisons (The Krinar Chronicles: Volume 1)Jul 31, 2014 | Kindle eBook by Anna Zaires $12.99Print Price

Romance: Alien Romance: Seducing The Sacred Alien: (Alien Abduction Science Fiction MFM Menage, Alien Invasion...Sep 19, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Meg Ripley

Alien Abduction: The Baldon: The Complete Series: A SciFi Alien RomanceOct 16, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Lisa Lace

Alien Romance: Alien Desires (Paranormal Scifi Romance Collection) (New Adult Stranded Alpha Alien Short Stories)Sep 18, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Fiery Desires

Scifi Romance: Alien Desire (Paranormal Alpha Space Romance) (New Adult Fantasy Alien Short Stories)Sep 3, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Linda Mathers

EROTICA: So Deep Box Set: 53 Books Bundle Taboo Tales Forbidden Erotica RomanceSep 20, 2015 | Kindle eBook by Ella Gottfried 5 | Kindle eBook by KILIE SAMS

GIRL JACKED: Detective Jack Stratton Mystery SeriesJul 17, 2014 | Kindle eBook by Christopher Greyson

[pabianice]

Apparently, while we weren't looking, women's softcore porn has shacked-up with scifi. Are real men that disappointing?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Are real men that disappointing?

Immaterial. Women that buy that sort of crap have expectations that are way too high.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I write sci-fi and it is disconcerting to see around a quarter of the top 100 books in the genre have covers of shirtless men. But erotica has seeped into every genre and women buy those books by the ton.

[NormsRevenge]

Coming soon to Wendy Williams

I married a transgendered alien hybrid

And then he got uhh elected to CONgre$$

Oh wait .. Bràvo TV

New series

Capitol Hill Housewives married to Alien hybrids

Sorry. Space porn movies made me do it!

[fishtank]

[FredZarguna]

Never met a “Grey” who could commit. Just sayin’...

[FredZarguna]

I married a transgendered alien hybrid

Sorry, but that would never happen in reality. There's an old slogan among female abductees: "Once you go Grey, you'll never turn gay."

[Cold Heat]

Sex has been a sci-fi subject for as long as I can remember...(1950s)....

I would imagine that it will continue...to be so.

[Raymann]

Just don’t look at the first page, Amazon breaks down sci-fi into a like two dozen categories.

[Fred Hayek]

I see the name Wendy Williams and I keep thinking Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics.

[Gen.Blather]

I write fiction and fantasy. Here’s a link. Send me a link to your stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3ABern%20Pearson

[JoeFromSidney]

I too write science fiction. I suspect this scifi/erotica is more fantasy than science fiction. However, I'm not going to read any to find out.

[Azeem]

The vampire erotica crap has taken over the superhero category at Amazon. Many authors have noticed the problem but Amazon doesn’t want to fix it.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Those books sell, and they sell a ton. Amazon isn’t going to stop people from buying or selling them.

[House Atreides]

“...A Paranormal Shifter Romance...”
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If I were single, I would stay away from dating attractive female Shape Shifters. I’d be afraid that I would find out that their name was Caitlin ... way too late.

[Boogieman]

Really, what is going on is that Amazon is now selling self-published ebooks alongside regular titles.

That junk has been up on the ebook sites for a long time. There is a lot that is even weirder and grosser too, (like bestiality romance stuff), so consider yourself lucky you just browsed scifi!

[Boogieman]

[JoeProBono]

[henkster]

You assume they are marketing these books to women.

[tbw2]

There are jokes that romance novels are porn for women.
Since you already have whole categories of shape-shifters (including dinosaurs) having sex with male and female humans after all the other supernatural creatures were tapped out, including werewolves, the sci-fi genre is one of the few left.