Quis Cetera Nescit? (Ovid: “ Who Does Not Know the Rest?” ) Some years ago, I was invited to speak at the St. Andrews University Science Fiction and Fantasy Society. I had so much fun, I started regularly attending their meetings - and thereby hangs the tale. During the week of Valentine’s Day, the president of the Society gave a talk on the subject of Sex and Romance in SF/F Literature. The presentation featured a selection of readings from works by Robert Heinlein, Robert Howard, and Anne Rice, among others. Given the fact that many of these passages were uproariously funny when read aloud out of context, I was more than a little taken aback to find myself represented on the agenda by a passage from Spiral of Fire , the third volume of my Garillon trilogy. In this scene, Margoth, the novel’s leading lady, seduces her beloved and leads him off to bed. The chapter ends thus: She traced the sharp-cut line of Serdor’s lips, stoking downward to the base of his throat, wher...