Why should anyone read Sci-Fi?
This blog post was part of The Prophecy of Arcadia Blog Tour that took place last week.
To answer that question, let's understand what is sci-fi? When I was a kid, I thought Science Fiction encompassed only books and movies about aliens. I think a lot of people believe that too. So when labeling my book, The Prophecy of Arcadia, I was afraid to categorize it only as sci-fi simply because many people shy away from the genre.
According to Wikipedia, Science Fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas". If you take that into consideration, there is a big chance that you have been reading science fiction already and didn't even realize it. Dystopian novels? They are a type of sci-fi. Books about faeries could also be labeled as sci-fi (parallel universes).
I fell in love with the genre when I was in my teens and read Darkover Landfall by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Her Darkover series is a mix of everything. At the end of the 21st century, Earth sends colony ships out to the stars. One of these ships becomes disabled and crash-lands on Darkover, the fourth planet in a red giant solar system. Unable to repair their ship and equally unable to contact with Earth, the survivors establish a colony. After the landfall, the series skips ahead many years, and the society has retrogressed to the middle ages ways. Thanks to inbreeding with the planet's native people, the humans now possess paranormal abilities. So, the series is sci-fi but it has a fantasy feel to it with paranormal elements.
That is the reason I think anyone should give sci-fi a chance. The genre is so broad and can encompass so many elements, that you are bound to find something that you can enjoy. I'd like to think my book will appeal to a much broader audience than the so called Sci-Fi aficionados. It's contemporary, there is plenty of romance, and it's not only the aliens who possess special abilities.
To answer that question, let's understand what is sci-fi? When I was a kid, I thought Science Fiction encompassed only books and movies about aliens. I think a lot of people believe that too. So when labeling my book, The Prophecy of Arcadia, I was afraid to categorize it only as sci-fi simply because many people shy away from the genre.
According to Wikipedia, Science Fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas". If you take that into consideration, there is a big chance that you have been reading science fiction already and didn't even realize it. Dystopian novels? They are a type of sci-fi. Books about faeries could also be labeled as sci-fi (parallel universes).
I fell in love with the genre when I was in my teens and read Darkover Landfall by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Her Darkover series is a mix of everything. At the end of the 21st century, Earth sends colony ships out to the stars. One of these ships becomes disabled and crash-lands on Darkover, the fourth planet in a red giant solar system. Unable to repair their ship and equally unable to contact with Earth, the survivors establish a colony. After the landfall, the series skips ahead many years, and the society has retrogressed to the middle ages ways. Thanks to inbreeding with the planet's native people, the humans now possess paranormal abilities. So, the series is sci-fi but it has a fantasy feel to it with paranormal elements.
That is the reason I think anyone should give sci-fi a chance. The genre is so broad and can encompass so many elements, that you are bound to find something that you can enjoy. I'd like to think my book will appeal to a much broader audience than the so called Sci-Fi aficionados. It's contemporary, there is plenty of romance, and it's not only the aliens who possess special abilities.
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Jun 11, 2014 01:57PM
Your book does sound pretty good! ;)
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