Poll #26: Do you like cross-genre fiction?

[Shaun]

Do you like works that have both science fiction and fantasy elements, mystery and western, romance and scifi, etc.? Why?

[Rafael Domination]

I don't just like them. I DO them! :D

While I appreciate genres with a more straightforward and narrow style, I take the cross genres because they can be much more versatile and interesting, since the writer often leads his/her audience to explore new and unique concepts that could be a refreshing break from normal genres.

[Zaphkiel]

I love to mix my genres as well. I think it's good to break away from a more...used style.

[Chie'N'Kadath]

Absolutely. Almost all my favourite stories are a cross of something (For example, the short story Troll Bridge is a subtle mixture of classic fantasy with modern horror) and the same applies to my favourite movies (Body horror movies are a great example, which are the TRUE sci-fi horror movies, like Alien or VideoDrome. There are way too many people that take sci-fi horror the wrong way. I'm sorry, but just because you add a scientist to a ghost story doesn't make it sci-fi horror.)

[Rouge]

It's like Dan Brown or Stephanie Meyer.
He incorporates fiction with totally real stuff.
Her new book, The Host, is romance/sci-fi. I haven't read it yet, but I did buy it. :D

[jordanisonfire]

In my opinion, it's impossible not to have a novel that is one single genre. So, yeah, without cross-genres, we'd have no true literature. ^^

[Paradox]

Sci-fi/Fantasy all the way!!!!!!!!!!

I read it, write it, BREATHE IT!!!!


*Paradox*

[Clawfire]

It's okay, I guess. I don't like it much when a good fantasy world which should be a completely new world is used as the actual world though. a bit like the Pure Dead books by Cornelia Funke...

[FayGee]

I've never really found one that's cross-genre, 'cause I usually read good ol' fiction.