Comments on: Why you’ll never like Sci-fi

By: BagelBoy

BagelBoy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:29:46 +0000

You are definitely in the minority, I mean right up there with Unicorns or a stable worm hole (granted probably don’t like being compared to a worm hole). And I am SO WITH YOU ON FIREFLY! I loved that show and still listen the to soundtrack. And it is so great you and your hub are both into sci-fi, it’s like you have an endless script of inside jokes! Oh so good.

By: Diane Sherman

Diane Sherman — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:50:46 +0000

Oddly, I fell in love with scifi when watching DS9 with my then boyfriend (now husband). I guess that particular ST series had just enough of a storyline to it to draw me in and keep me there. Comparatively, I know it’s not the best of the ST series, but it holds special meaning for me (helped me fall in love with ST and with the boyfriend now husband), and I still cry every time Jadzia dies.

Aliens don’t bother me. I love learning about new alien races. New languages? Awesome! Haven’t we all giggled when saying FRACK! instead of the other f-word? Other obsessions? I guess I have a few, but I certainly enjoy obsessing about scifi stuff quite a bit with the husband.

As a woman, I know I’m in a minority with my perspectives. What I don’t get is how some women love love love the vampire stuff and yet turn up their noses at scifi. Oh, and I also don’t understand why Fox canceled Firefly after one season… what the frack?!

By: Peter K from UPC

Peter K from UPC — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:15:42 +0000

I think people don’t like sci-fi because it is viewed as ‘immature’ or ‘juvenile’. Some authors will fight tooth and nail to keep their stuff classified as science fiction, going so far as to call it ‘Speculative Futurist Fiction’.

If your story has;
1. Lasers.
2. Aliens.
3. Things in space.

Its scifi. Period.