SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"
"A Theseus Imperium novel"
You find the most insightful, compelling enlightenment fantasy novel you've ever read and you can't recommend it to anyone because it's named something like "The Cartesian Pogrom: Antikythera Delerium Chronicles"
@mcc my biggest problem is that I find stuff with titles like "The Mage Who Wandered" or "A Storm of Galaxies" and the title is so unfortunately generic that there's like 9 other books with the same title on Amazon and half of them are _extremely_ explicit
@glyph @mcc yeah they're all harems
@ami_angelwings @glyph Can't tell yet if "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a harem novel but it's pretty good
@mcc @ami_angelwings okay how many of these are real
@glyph @ami_angelwings "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a real book about a bunch of *extremely* queer women and the book I just checked out from the library actually did claim on the first page to be by "the bestselling author of the Licanius trilogy". As far as I know the others are fake.
@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph confirmed, would absolutely not pick it up based on title
@ami_angelwings @glyph @nev for the record it is *very* gay and its teeth are filed to the finest of points
@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph I'd have to make a classy looking dust cover for it. Not even making it look like a literary novel. Just like a slightly more highbrow spec fic novel.