--- In [email protected], "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: (snip) > Oh yes, when I meet a woman into sci-fi I always say Wow! > Most just hate it no matter how much I try and extol > it's virtues.
FWIW, I love SF. Especially "hard" SF. Like you, I'm bored to tears by fantasy. On the other hand, I *generally* prefer the earth setting to outer space shenanigans. I'm very fussy about portrayals of alien worlds and civilizations; don't think they're done all that well a lot of the time. And I don't care all that much for far-future settings, even if they're on earth. Super-advanced technology begins to become uncomfortably like wizardry, in SF as in life. Ends up being a fairly narrow slice of SF that really rings my chimes, but a good SF story within that slice delights me like almost nothing else. I haven't read any such for far too long. The only girl I currently know into SF > has a physics degree. > > What is it that turns women off it generally? I leant the > hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to a girl I knew who was top > at English literature at uni and she said it was great until > they left Earth, and then she lost interest. Dislike of > abstraction?
