I have been following Tor -- Fiction Affliction. I have used it to get a few titles to read for this summer -- escape reading, urban fantasy, written from a very youthful viewpoint. This fiction could also be described as mindless,  semi-pornographic, fantasies for people who are in serious need of stress relief. It depends on your purpose and viewpoint. I like to think of them more positively since there is some excellent writing style and imagination presented albeit in a rather sensational, sexy and sometimes shameless package (  it is a little cheesy,too, but that didn't start with an S). What I have learned by briefly perusing this site is that there is an endless amount of fiction and an enormous number of authors that I have never experienced and will probably never experience again. We are all very caught up in our warm little reading worlds dictated by our comfort zones, habits, obsessions, which grow narrower and narrower by the year. Now, I could have broken out of my comfort zone by starting to read lady literary fiction-- but, really, I am in serious need of relaxation and just in no mood to read anything remotely intellectual or challenging (or pretentious), so here I am at the urban fantasy page of Tor -- and it's not such a bad place to be right now.