--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > --- 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.
So much of it these days is just space opera, with intelligent space ships crewed by humans with computers for eyes and all manner of physical and mental upgrades. Iain Banks does this well but generally It's very boring and I haven't found a good new writer for a while. So I stick to my Masters list and tick them off one by one... > 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? >
