Do you have a favorite subgenre?

[YankeyMCC]

Poll question: Do you have a favorite subgenre?

Is there a particular style or subgenre of SF that is your favorite?

[mzteris]

1. You forgot -

ALL OF THE ABOVE!



Weird Fiction
Speculative Fiction
Alternative Fiction
Alternative History Fiction
Cyberpunk Fiction


As long as it's somewhere within the realm of SF&F - I like it.





edit-too late to type properly. :(

[YankeyMCC]

2. Um..i did include cyberpunk and alt history

[mzteris]

4. which is obviously why

I went to bed soon thereafter.




sorry......



But you DID forget Weird History. :P

[YankeyMCC]

5. Yes I did ;)

[Orrex]

7. By "Weird Fiction," do you mean The Mythos and its ilk?

And what is "Speculative Fiction," by the way?

I'm not good at categorizing in this manner, perhaps because I haven't read a great deal across the sub-genres...

[mzteris]

11. some of these definitions are hard to pin down

as they're ever-changing.

"Weird Fiction" - China Mieville is an author that comes to mind for "new weird"... Lovecraft for "old weird" . . . just "weird stuff" that doesn't fit anywhere else, ya know?


Speculative fiction: Ellison, Tepper, Le Guin, Butler, Dick,
Other world/space/time/lifes were neither science nor magic are the catalysts for being. Just different.

[Forkboy]

3. Went with "near future".

I have a hard time with fantasy stuff,and the further out you go the closer it gets to pure fantasy.Not to say there aren't any good ones (someone gave George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones,and that's good so far) but I prefer hard science.Books like Red Mars,stuff like that.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. alternate history--

Dr Who , Hitchhikers Guide---that kind of stuff

[YankeyMCC]

8. Hitchiker's Guide is alt history?

not sure I follow that.

When I say alternate history, it's things like The Nazi win WWII or someone kills Hilter as a baby...or more subtle changes but a timeline different from what we know as history.

[semillama]

9. I'd say Hitchhiker's Guide falls under "culture shock"

which is what I voted for, since my all-time favorite sci-fi series is David Brin's Uplift saga.

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. you are no doubt right

I am not very good at labels

[shenmue]

12. The rarely seen "future athletics" subset...

Anybody else really get a kick out of the racquetball scenes in the beginning of "Split Infinity" by Piers Anthony and the light bikes in "Tron"?

:D

[YankeyMCC]

13. "The Gods Themselves"

by Asimov - I don't remember what they name of the game was, if there even was one. But in the book the Moon is colonized moon and the residents had a game where they "fell" down a large cylinder with polls jutting out of the walls and they had to control their fall via slaps on the polls and perform various acrobatic type moves as they fell.

Then there's extreme hang gliding (with winged skin suits for equipment) on Mars in the Red/Green/Blue Mars Series by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Those are two of my favorites that come to mind.

[Orrex]

14. A few chapters of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama

There's a section in which Jimmy pilots a low-G man-powered aircraft along the central axis of Rama. His efforts turn out to be pretty significant to the plot, even if the athletic sequence is kind of abbreviated.

[AllegroRondo]

15. Achille's Choice by Larry Niven

http://www.amazon.com/Achilles-Choice-Larry-Niven/dp/0812510836/ref=sr_1_9/103-9927389-9001432?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192455338&sr=1-9

A great look at what the future Olympics might look like, if unregulated steroids, drugs, etc are allowed.