What kind of Scifi do you like most?

[Shaun]

Pick only the ones you like most from the poll. Why did you choose them?

[Zombified]

If it has the end of the world, monsters, or both, I am so there!

[Rafael Domination]

I picked all of them except Soft Sci fi. Why? Cuz' I'm a sci-fi junkie. No, I'm not a nerd who speaks Klingon and goes to weird Star Trek conventions (of offense to those of you who do) but I can't help but be addicted to Sci-fi! :crazy:

[Shaun]

Soft SF is just SF that focuses on aspects of the human, like psychological SF, sociological SF, women's issues, gender and racial problems, slavery, etc. Most anything by Philip K. Dick is Soft SF (with exception, perhaps, to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and perhaps a bunch of tales I've yet to read), or Octavia Butler's writing, even Ursula K. Le Guin's work, if you like her stuff. So, you probably like Soft SF and don't even realize you read it...which is a problem for that darned label, because it implies something that it is not.
The best way to think about this is like this:
Hard SF is focused on realistic science in the hard sciences--mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, astrophysics, etc.
Soft SF is focused on the softer sciences--sociology, feminism, psychology, anthropology (probably a little biology too), humanism, posthumanism, modernism, globalization/economics, etc.

Yeah.

[Rafael Domination]

Yeah...I like my sci-fi with some depth to it, but not mind-cramping philisophy...

:D

[Wheelsgr]

I think sci-fi kind of speaks to human society a lot, the things we can built and make, so I like some kind of philosophical or satirical depth when I'm dealing with it. But I can't take it when it's just technology-driven and you're being told about megatrons and the Gologoop monster from planet Moron... at that point I usually just get confused and put the book on a shelf to look like I'm well-read...

[Paradox]

This one was easy for me, I picked Scifantasy, of which I have my own version that I use in my stories and can't really find anywhere else, Cross-genre (I love steampunk and am even writing an medieval science fiction story, which I call "serfpunk"), and Time travel/Alternate Worlds or Dimensions (I love stuff with parallel worlds! In fact, most of my stories operate on the theory of a multiverse.)

*Paradox*

[GeorgeMichael]

Time Travel for me are my favorites but I actually tend to stay away from Sci Fi in terms of literature (Shaun curses me for this by the way :P)

But yeah, Time Travel just interests me so much and while I find that the entire concept of Sci Fi can be so interesting I just can't get into any of the books that have been recommended to me Sci Fi wise. I mean some are great that I've read like... ...

hold on... Well, I can't really think of many off the top of my head... but for some reason I really like Sci Fi movies a lot better than their books... I haven't told Shaun that, I'm going to be murdered and fired from my Modly job for saying that :P

but yeah, sorry Shaun, Sci Fi just doesn't pull me in.

[Shaun]

Read Crawford Kilian's work on time travel, George...good stuff.