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Am I the only one here who actually doesn't watch or read that much sci fi/fantasy?

And if not, what genres DO you like?

(Not bashing sci fi/fantasy at all, I just think I'm in the minority. Compared to my RL friends I watch a LOT though, it's weird.)

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stories about adults with jobs doing adult things in the real world (god that sounds patronizing but I don't know how else to put it).

AYRT - I think I know what you're trying to say, and that's how I am. Even the sci fi/fantasy stuff I do like tends to be based in reality - Buffy and Harry Potter take place at a school (initially anyway) and are set in our world, just a different... part of it, Firefly takes place on a spaceship but is so much more about the characters, stuff like that. I like to read/watch things that are about the world I live in, or how the world used to be (i.e. historical fiction), not other worlds.

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Yeah, that's my only issue with real-world based stuff too, although I actually think Harry Potter is a tad more believable in that respect than, say, Doctor Who (which I also really like) where aliens always seem to be taking over London. People would have figured it out centuries ago at this point, unless DW is supposed to be a total AU where people do know. I've lost track. But yeah, even in Harry Potter, you'd think people would have figured it out. And how many muggleborn families would manage to keep it a secret within their own households? Surely someone with a close extended family and/or network of friends isn't going to keep their child's identity a secret from everyone.

Doctor Who was supposed to be an AU where everyone had figured it out during the RTD years, although it was very imperfectly executed. Then Moffat retconned it so no one knows about aliens anymore, through the power of cracks in space.

And in Harry Potter I think the justification is that, if any of the muggleborn families spread the secret too far, the Ministry swoops in and memory-modifies some shit. Which is more than a little dystopian, but the world of Harry Potter not making sense is the expected outcome.

Doctor Who has always gone back and forth on whether the public knows about aliens. In the early Pertwee years UNIT was explicitly an out and publicly alien fighting organization, but by the end they were a hush-hush organization that hardly anyone knew about, just as one example. Take off the Moffat hateboner glasses, he's done nothing new.

I promise, I don't have a Moffat hateboner. That was supposed to be a value-neutral description of what the canon has been on the public knowing about aliens in new who. They used to know about them, and now they don't.

Except in Power of Three, for example, people are openly talking about the cubes being alien. The only Moffat episode where Aliens were explicitly not public knowledge was Big Bang and that was a symptom of the end world. After it was reset aliens became public knowledge again. The only Moffat era stories that have a covert UNIT and no knowledge of aliens, are the historical set ones. Contemporary they are out of the saucer.

You are factually incorrect.

I love science fiction and fantasy. I don't read as much of it as I used to, but those are still certainly the genres I'm most familiar with.

I also like other genres - some horror, definitely a ton of mystery and crime stuff, and of course your normal artsy literary and artistic stuff. But no, definitely an sf&f nerd.

Me, too. I actually joined a Sci Fi Book club to get myself to read more sci fi, and now I just have this guilt from not reading the assigned book & not attending the meetings. :(

Mostly I read Victorian/Edwardian Brits (Trollope, etc) loads of Wodehouse, some contemporary drama stuff, and lately some business books like Rework.

nope, i'm the same. the only medium where i prefer fantasy & sci-fi over other genres is video games.

otherwise, i like realistic or noir fiction. a little sci-fi can be great when it's 'hard', feels natural and doesn't take precedence over the plot and characters.

i still love guardians of the galaxy though.

you're not alone, anon.

I stopped reading sci-fi and fantasy quite some time ago, after a series of horrible recommendations ("it's a science fiction classic!" "you liked Lord of the Rings so you'll like this!"). it trickled from literature into my tv and movie viewing as well. I don't really watch or read anything in the genre, though I still support seeing it in the media more than catty housewives and bratty high school kids going through housewife and high school shenanigans.

it isn't even an anime/manga thing, because while the only series I diligently follow is anime and manga, that isn't the reason. I follow it because it's outside any genre I know of (unless shounen is a genre) and I just like the story and characters. Conversely, I don't really watch much anime or read any manga besides this one series.

I don't really have any genres I like. I dislike mystery, noir, drama, comedy, and reality even more than I am ambivalent toward sci-fi and fantasy.

I used to exclusively read and watch sf and fantasy, but recently, I don't know if it is just all the grimdark in the genre or the explosion of YA books at the expense of works for a wider audience, I've really started drifting into the feelgood more fluffy kitchensink comedydramas.

I've enjoyed Doc Martin, a sort of British Northern Exposure, Brooklyn 99, and been reading the James Herriot books. Maybe I'm just getting older, but current SF&F just doesn't do it for me no more.

I like sci-fi. Fantasy, not so much. I don't really like things like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter or stuff like that.

I'm kind of the same. I mean, I do like the genres, just in a different way than the majority.

For sci-fi, most people like future societies, mecha, outer space set, etc. I like sci-fi set in modern time like time travelling or something.

Fantasy, it depends. I like fantasy elements set into modern life, but in fantasy worlds/settings I'm not that interested.

But.........! If it's a visual medium I'm much more open-minded, and if it's a book I'm way more picky.

I like sci-fi/fantasy all right, but I also go through phases of being really into historical fiction.

i'm a sucker for collections of essays. i'm part of the dream demo of everyone freelances for the likes of the new yorker or slate.

that whole ira glass kings of non-fiction involving the davids (sedaris, fw, rakoff) - i was all about that shit.

I do read a majority of SF/F. Of the 10 novels I've read this year, the only 2 that haven't been SF/F were by Michael Chabon... who also writes genre fiction.

When it comes to visual media though, I love a bunch of genre shows but the majority of what I watch is crime/police stuff or historical stuff. I'll give just about any cop show a chance, for real.

I don't like sci-fi (with some minor exceptions, like Doctor Who) but I love fantasy a lot.
I have a couple of friends who hate both genres and are more into stories that are based on real-life events and documentaries or politics and all that. We're the complete opposite of each other in a lot of things yet we're still friends, which is kind of odd when I think too much about it.

I like fantasy but I'm actually not that much into sci fi. I'll watch the occasional sci fi show -- Farscape is forever one of my favorite shows and I'm enjoying Defiance -- but I rarely to never read any sci fi books.

I may be opposite of you, I tend to almost exclusively read scifi/fantasy. It's just that I've grown up reading it and when I try to read mainstream stuff it seems so...boring. Predictable. A vessel crashed! (and it has to be something like a plane or ship rather than a spaceship, and it has to be on planet Earth) What could have caused it? Could it have been psychic mushrooms overtaking the body of a dead crewman? (a good novel, that one) In sci fi it could have, but in mainstream it was terrorists or weather or human error. Never a time loop causing two versions of the same ship to appear in the same space or an elemental causing a typhoon via magnetic pulses to tectonic plates. SO PASSE IF I WANT REAL LIFE ILL LIVE IT etc etc.

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