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⌈ Secret Post #2529 ⌋

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[Babylon 5, Art by A-gnosis]

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[HGTV]

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[Boy Meets World]

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[Doctor Who, "Day of the Doctor"]

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[Battlestar Galactica]

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[Brian Cox, Jim Al-Khalili]

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[Doctor Who]

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[Top Gun]

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[Once Upon a Time in Wonderland]

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What I tend to get are people who assume that because I love sci-fi/fantasy and am in fandom that sci-fi/fantasy is, like, my entire life. Once, I was with a friend at a thrift store and she found a Star Trek action figure and said "Hey, here's something for you! Oh, wait, you probably already have this one, don't you?" I just gaped at her, because I had never in my life owned an action figure or felt a desire to start collecting any. She knew I liked Star Trek, but I had never given any indication that I owned or wanted any Star Trek paraphernalia. Then there was the time a distant relative expressed amazement that I was reading a non-fiction book because "I thought you liked science fiction." Yeah, but not to the exclusion of everything else. I like sci-fi and fantasy... and sometimes I read cooking magazines and watch popular sitcoms and go to see movies that don't have dragons or robots in them! It happens!

Somehow, being a sci-fi fan became my one defining trait for some people.

Yeah, I kind of feel that way too. Like my friends know I like certain things, but they seem to think it's literally the only thing I like.

That sounds annoying. I don't even read paperback sci-fi books at work anymore because people would ask me what I was reading and then give me a weird look when I said it was about aliens and spaceships. I should bring one of my dinosaurs in space books and see the look I get when I explain it's about dinosaurs AND spaceships.

"dinosaurs in space books"

Such books exist? Is this an actual genre? CAN YOU GIVE ME RECS? _Please?

The Far-Seer Trilogy, by Robert J. Sawyer. Though, it's actually more about dinosaurs on another planet and one dinosaur's mission to DO SCIENCE AND AVOID RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS.

Robert Sawyer has a couple other books that involve dinosaurs, but not in space. He does have one with dolphins in space though, but I can't remember the title.

Then, Charon's Ark by Rick Gauger is about a space ark. There are dinosaurs.

I'm sure there a lot more dinosaurs in space books. Star Trek Voyager had a dinosaurs in space episode.

AYRT

Thank you from the bottom of my dinosaur-loving heart. <3

They're for kids, but I'm fond of the Captain Raptor books anyway. The art is really lovely. You can see a few pages of Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates at scans_daily here: http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/305188.html

What are these dinosaurs/spaceships books you speak of? I didn't know that was a thing.

See my comment to anon above.

oh, and if you're into one sci-fi/fantasy work, you're into all of them, ever. I love sci-fi horror, but people keep thinking I love Firefly and Star Trek, neither of which I could get into.

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