Enthusiastic book reviewers at #BookTok have recently fallen in love with Ruby Dixon s Ice Planet Barbarians saga. Photo: AFP
Summer vacation is coming, a favourite time for readers to indulge in their favourite activity. This year, many of them will be slipping
Ice Planet Barbarians, a romantic saga featuring blue aliens, into their suitcase.
Here s what you need to know about the fiction phenomenon. if you don t know who Ruby Dixon is, you probably don t spend enough time on TikTok. And more specifically on #BookTok, the posts where the social network s young users are reinventing literary criticism as we know it. In the last few months, these bibliophiles have taken a liking to Ruby Dixon and her hit sci-fi romance saga
There are some things that cannot be properly explained within the lines of your average news website. Ice Planet Barbarians is one of those things.
The science fiction romance series chronicles a band of human women stranded on you guessed it an ice planet, along with the hunky blue aliens who love them, and the many, many unprintable things they do to each other.
And despite the first installment being written more than five years ago, Ice Planet Barbarians books have been flooding Amazon s bestseller lists since May. They re topping the sci-fi charts and have caused a frenzy on social media. Bookstores have even made special orders to stock some of the 22 main titles in all of their barbaric, bare-chested glory.
AJ Willingham, CNN
There are some things that cannot be properly explained within the lines of your average news website. “Ice Planet Barbarians” is one of those things.
The science fiction romance series chronicles a band of human women stranded on you guessed it an ice planet, along with the hunky blue aliens who love them, and the many, many unprintable things they do to each other.
And despite the first installment being written more than five years ago, “Ice Planet Barbarians” books have been flooding Amazon’s bestseller lists since May. They’re topping the sci-fi charts and have caused a frenzy on social media. Bookstores have even made special orders to stock some of the 22 main titles in all of their barbaric, bare-chested glory.
Updated on July 27, 2018 at 1:15 pm
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By Veronica Scott
Record
February is the month of romance although as a sci-fi romance author, I believe in hearts, flowers and happy-ever-afters year round so I decided to ask my friends in the Science Fiction Romance Brigade (SFRB) to list their favorite SFR couples. SFRB is made up primarily of authors but, of course, we’re all voracious readers, and we have bloggers, readers and reviewers in our ranks as well. The resulting set of recommendations can serve as suggestions for adding to your “To Be Read” list.
So, who do sci-fi romance authors turn to when they want to read romance?