Science Fiction lane score: live opportunity read, greenlight band Promising, 417 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
Counted across 95 titles in this lane — 13% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| sweet | 86% |
| steamy | 6% |
| spicy | 4% |
| dark | 3% |
| Median Kindle length | 326 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 336 pages |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 4,265,367 Goodreads reviews, 3,203,822 shelf signals, 2,610,741 parsed reader demand signals and 135,180 BookTok videos, across 114,585 trope-tagged titles and 5,096 distinct tropes in 145 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.
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