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This is just a straw poll as the topic of Science Fiction seems to crop up a lot here. How many of us are SciFi lovers? I include Fantasy too as the genres are closely related. This in not about the audio/visual media - just old fashioned books.

I read Si Fi from time to time but it is no where near love.

Leeza

I started reading SciFi as a kid, graduating from the comics to books gradually by the time I was 10. We got a thing called the Weekly Reader during the summer, and several had serials that were SciFi based that I really enjoyed. Our druggist who had the comics and newstand with the books was kinda concerned I was trying to read things too advanced for my understanding, so he talked to me about some of the stories in the Analog and IF and found that my vocabulary was very high and I did indeed understand the concepts, and even the vanilla sex allusions in them. I told him that if I wasn't wearing glasses, I would have liked to be the first person to stand on the moon, and explained how rockets worked to him. What he didn't know was that I had already read the grade school set of encyclopedias from A to Z and understood most of what I read and remembered it. He didn't concern himself with my reading habits after that.

Not a big reader, but love sci-fi movies, especially the older ones, plus every re-run of the Twilight Zone. Rob was "the man"!

Rikki

As a kid, I devoured the old sci-fi magazines: Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, etc. Hugo Gernsbach was a hero of mine, which shows my age. And then came Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Richard Heinlein. Modern Sci-fi has lost my interest - it's become too involved in sociological and psychological topics.
Once in a while I reread with delight stories by Hal Clement, Jack Williamson, Lewis Padgett. A.E.Van Vogt's "World of Null-A" led me to study the semantics of Korzybski ("Science and Sanity").
Schools, by and large, miss great educational opportunities by not emphasizing sci-fi in their reading lists.

Hugs,

Lydia

Arthur C. Clarke and Phillip K. Dick are my two favorite authors & I'm a real sucker for sci-fi that deals with time travel.

I like Sci Fi. I'm not really so much of a fantasy fan - although Tolkein and CS Lewis do qualify as loves. When I was late teen/early 20s, my brother had just a vast collection of Sci Fi (in a very small room) and I used to go and borrow his stuff. Most of the books I've got now are reminiscences from that era.

I first became fascinated when introduced at school to The Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham. I went on to read all his novels.

I also love all Dean Kootnz novels, apart from recent ones which are not as vivid and captivating.

Dennis Wheatley and James Herbert are old favourites as well. These are horror stories so i am not sure whether they fit this category.

Joan

I used to read a lot of sci-fi. I still do if I have the time. As to fantasy, Piers Anthony was a favorite.

Now, I am writting it. No, not published as of yet but it is a work in progress. I hope to be able to offer for sale soon.

I began reading during the many years spent far from civilization. My dad did contract work on many forestry projects for the federal government, so we lived near the job sites, which were far from the electric grid. I spent many summers in forests near the Canadian border. When I got tired of fly fishing I read books.

I remember reading a story by John W. Campbel "Who goes there". Later to become the movie "The Thing". What really started it all was the Robert Heinlein book "Have Space Suit, Will Travel".

Andrea

My wife is the book worm, I don't have the time or interest to waste.

I read a lot of sci fi as a kid. I remember when Andre Norton started the whole sci fi fantasy thing.

There are some Sci Fi and Fantasy books that I enjoy, HG Wells, the Anne McCaffrey Pern stories, Tolkien, CS Lewis...... but I do not like them because they are Sci Fi / Fantasy. All good stories, novels short stories etc., may be in any genre, but essentially illistrate the state of living, life, and humanity. Are 1984 and Animal Farm Sci Fi / Fantasy?

I like sifi and mysteries but my favorites are westerns.

I like SciFi but much prefer the fantasy genre. My favorite author would be Michael Moorcock (no jokes please ). I have read the Swords Trilogy and the Chronicles Of Corum more times than I can count.

Jessica

I voted "no," even though I've read a lot of sci-fi over the years. Having known people who really like sci-fi, I would say that I'm not one of them. Two books by Colin Wilson that I've read many times, The Philosopher's Stone, and The Mind Parasites, are borderland sci-fi.