{"id":675,"date":"2012-03-14T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lairdharrison.com\/fallenlake\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-12-13T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T04:39:56","slug":"polyamory-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lairdharrison.com\/fallenlake\/675\/polyamory-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyamory novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious how<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fallen-Lake-Laird-Harrison\/dp\/0615550851\">Fallen Lake<\/a><\/em> fits into the polyamory literature, I compiled this list. Links take you to the best independent commentary I could find on these books from a polyamory perspective. In some cases, all I could find was an Amazon page.<\/p>\n<p>Making this list led me to a couple of observations. First, most of the polyamory erotica appears to be written by women.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Second, most of these books fall into the realm of science fiction or fantasy. In contrast to authors of gay fiction, people who write about polyamory seem to have trouble imagining it in the world in which we live now. I welcome any corrections or additions to this list.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2150_AD\">2150 AD<\/a>: Thea Alexander<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth%27s_Children\">The Earth&#8217;s Children<\/a>: Jean Auel<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polychromatic.com\/fiction5.html\">The Forbidden Tower<\/a>: Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babel-17\">Babel-17<\/a>: Samuel R. Delan<a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_The_Lost_Years\">y<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_The_Lost_Years\">Star Trek: The Lost Years<\/a>: J.M. Dillard<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heritage_Trilogy\">Heritage Trilogy<\/a>: Ian Douglas<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Legacy Trilogy: Ian Douglas<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Inheritance Trilogy: Ian Douglas<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bedlams-Bard-Mercedes-Lackey\/dp\/0671878638\">Bedlam&#8217;s Bard<\/a>: Mercedes Lackey Ellen Guon<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Worlds-Joe-Haldeman\/dp\/B000FA4UCE\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331755950&amp;sr=1-1\">Worlds<\/a>: Joe Haldeman<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polychromatic.com\/fiction.html\">Stranger in a Strange Land<\/a>: Robert Heinlein<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Enough_for_Love\">Time Enough for Love<\/a>: Robert Heinlein<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friday_%28novel%29\">Friday<\/a>: Robert Heinlein<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress\">The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<\/a>: Robert Heinlein<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readreactreview.com\/2009\/06\/18\/polyamory-menage-erotic-romance-and-culture\/#.T2ECZXnN2M0\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s Raining Men<\/a>: Crystal Jordan<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Courtship_Rite\">Courtship Rite<\/a>: Donald Kingsbury<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Starfarers-Vonda-McIntyre\/dp\/0553563416\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331755909&amp;sr=1-2\">Starfarers<\/a>: Vonda N. McIntyre<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polychromatic.com\/fiction3.html\">The Fifth Sacred Thing<\/a>: Starhawk<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0Mainstream<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Selling-Fantasy-Stacey-L-Ford\/dp\/0979659302\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331755884&amp;sr=1-1\">Selling the Fantasy<\/a>: Stacey L. Ford<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fallen-Lake-Laird-Harrison\/dp\/0615550851\">Fallen Lake<\/a>: Laird Harrison<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polychromatic.com\/fiction4.html\">The Book of Laughter and Forgetting<\/a>: Milan Kundera<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polychromatic.com\/fiction2.html\">Small Changes<\/a>: Marge Piercey<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polychromatic.com\/fiction2.html\">The Harrad Experiment<\/a>: Robert Rimmer<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proposition_31\">Proposition 31<\/a>: Robert Rimmer<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polychromatic.com\/fiction5.html\">The High Cost of Living<\/a>: Marge Piercy<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Novel I Wrote 6 or 7 Years Before My Spiritual Awakening: Mystic Life<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Erotica<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Play-Date-Novel-Polyamory-ebook\/dp\/B0023EFAYC\">Play Date: A Novel of Polyamory<\/a>: Jake Marlow<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Compass-Rose-One-ebook\/dp\/B002UNFBNG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331755745&amp;sr=1-1\">The Compass Rose<\/a>: Gail Dayton<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Marlys-Choice-August-Book-ebook\/dp\/B003370JJO\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331755774&amp;sr=1-1\">Marly&#8217;s Choice<\/a>: Lora Leigh<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lisas-Gift-ebook\/dp\/B000R93E0W\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331755815&amp;sr=1-1\">Lisa&#8217;s Gift<\/a>: MacKenzie McKade<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cattle-Valley-About-Jenna-Byrnes\/dp\/1907010866\/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331755850&amp;sr=1-1-catcorr\">Cattle Valley: About the Girls<\/a>: Jenna Byrnes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children&#8217;s books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polychromatic.com\/fiction3.html\">Six-Dinner Sid<\/a>: Inga Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious how Fallen Lake fits into the polyamory literature, I compiled this list. Links take you to the best independent commentary I could find on these books from a polyamory perspective. In some cases, all I could find was an Amazon page. Making this list led me to a couple of observations. 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