How many of you AHers don't read fantasy/sci fi?

[VerbalAbuse]

D + D = 2D

Sorry, couldn't resist.

weak

 

[SimonDoom]

See, this thread is going to get a severe selection bias because there are going to be people who DO read SF/F but skip it and never self-report.

Since I'm posting, I guess I'll raise my hand for "yes I read SF/F" but I wasn't going to

It's kind of like, "Who here likes to respond to other people's posts?"

 

[VerbalAbuse]

It's kind of like, "Who here likes to respond to other people's posts?"

Those who have important things to share.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

So, sci/fi, fantasy folks, how would you do this?

Unless you did something like The Eyes Of Laura Mars.

That might be interesting though. Through whatever means, magic, scifi, hypnosis, medical error, one person finds they are looking at the world through the eyes of another.

And how could it be done without constantly reminding the reader of what was happening?

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I hate Shadowrun because it merges both worlds. I find it really contrived and clunky and unappealing.

I'm sure there's a way to merge both worlds which isn't contrived and clunky and unappealing (to me), but Shadowrun isn't it.

I mean I get it. I disagree, but I completely understand where you're coming from. I have the exact same feeling around Solarpunk fiction because the -punk part in the whole -punk genre is associated with the derogatory meaning of the word, not the punk subculture. Besides, it's just way too idealistic to me, it gives me the creeps. I already lived under similar banners and saw them getting twisted into what we have right now.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I read On Basilisk Station and was contemplating continuing the series... Nah? Are y'all saying nah?

They're great books! He just likes to wax on way too long about engineering mumbo jumbo. Which is why I only read him once in a great while. I think my favorites of his are actually the ones he co-authored with John Ringo.

I've never even played D&D and even I know it's a D20

Well probably from 3rd edition on. =P But I still play 2nd edition, where the DM is probably asking for a d20, but might be asking for a d100, or maybe is feeling particularly sadistic and asking for any combination of any other dice.

D + D = 2D

Sorry, couldn't resist.

So, a large breasted pixie?

 

[Unblemished]

Early Honor is good but it eventually becomes so repetitive that he’s almost literally copy-pasting chapters. There comes a point when it’s better to re-read the early stuff than to catch up with the new ones.

 

[StillStunned]

Early Honor is good but it eventually becomes so repetitive that he’s almost literally copy-pasting chapters. There comes a point when it’s better to re-read the early stuff than to catch up with the new ones.

I read the first one, and enjoyed it enough to give another one a try. It was the fourth, I think, but I gave up almost immediately. It was apparent that the author had fallen in love with HH and was flirting with her through his writing.

 

[Britva415]

It's kind of like, "Who here likes to respond to other people's posts?"

No wonder I let myself get roped in!

Those who have important things to share.

You get me! You really get me.

 

[Britva415]

D&D

I don't even know what D+D is.

It's DnD

D + D = 2D

2dX

 

[AG31]

See, this thread is going to get a severe selection bias because there are going to be people who DO read SF/F but skip it and never self-report.

Since I'm posting, I guess I'll raise my hand for "yes I read SF/F" but I wasn't going to

I made the thread because there already seemed to be a preponderance of people who do read sci fi & fantasy (see "annoying" thread.) And that continues to be the case here. I asked for people who don't, but when it dies down I'm going to do a count, and I bet there will still be more sf f readers than not.

 

[Britva415]

I made the thread because there already seemed to be ea preponderance of people who do read sci fi & fantasy (see "annoying" thread. And that continues to be the case here. I asked for people who don't, but when it dies down I'm going to do a count, and I bet there will still be more sf f readers than not.

Yeah, guess I was wrong!

 

[dirk2024]

My ears are burning...

(Except I introduce them in chapter 2.)

With this as a tagline: "Man v. machine, in the struggle for humanity's future" I would not be surprised to find nanobots. It's not that I don't like the concept, but that some authors, twenty chapters in, are looking for anything to simply add more chapters.

Thanks for the link, I'll read the story.

 

[RetroFan]

Writing science fiction and fantasy is hard because you don't know how readers are going to like your themes or the fictional world you created. It's very subjective, way more than most other genres.

Some people like stories set on other planets or fictional worlds. Others prefer these type of stories set in the real world.

I guess I fall into the latter category, because I've written stories about fantasy themes, monsters, ghosts and UFOs on this site, and all have been set in the very much real world. It is far easier than world-building, as readers can visualize things and associate with the characters more readily.

For example, I've written stories about body swaps (between a jock and a nerd) and another about a young guy who slips into an alternate dimension, but both stories take place in the very real settings of Brisbane and the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. I've written a monster story where a girl is abducted by a group of Bigfoot from a chaotic music festival in the early 1970s and her cousin has to rescue her from the woods, but this story is also set in a very real place - Bennington and the Glastonbury Mountains in Vermont USA, where a number of people really did vanish without trace in the 1940s and 1950s. A ghost story I wrote was set in London, England in the early 1990s and about a family struggling with poltergeists haunting their house. And an alien abduction story I wrote for Halloween involved a group of cheerleaders and their jock boyfriends being abducted by aliens in a UFO after their Halloween dance, this story set in Connecticut USA (albeit in a fictional town) in the late 1950s.

One odd thing I have noticed is that while the Incest-Taboo readers would probably have to suspend disbelief in their category more than others, they are less accepting of - and at times very negative towards - fantasy themes in their stories. It's kind of a paradox.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I don't even know what D+D is.

Oh wow this hurts my eyes. I'm going to use this to annoy the OSR purists who call people lazy for typing DnD rather than using the ampersand.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Oh wow this hurts my eyes. I'm going to use this to annoy the OSR purists who call people lazy for typing DnD rather than using the ampersand.

Right. Like, totally. Who is OSL?

 

[Dearelliot]

For porn none...