Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction

Taking up where the author's book Of Modern

Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue

Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial

reading and the best genre fiction of recent

decades, including work by Bill James, Walter

Mosley, Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le

Guin. There are groundbreaking studies of

contemporary paranormal romance, and of

Hornblower's transition to space, while the final

essay deals with the phenomenon and explosive

growth of fanfiction, and with the increasingly

empowered status of the reader in a digital world.

There is an extensive bibliography of genre and

critical work, with eight illustrations and many

hyperlinks.