This month’s question:
What do you consider the best characteristics of your favorite genre?
First off, I would like to protest. I’m only allowed to have one favorite genre? That seems totally unfair to the wide variety of books I read. I have to pick one? Well, okay. I pick science fiction.
Here’s why. I love me some well-written, old-fashioned, world-building science fiction. But I also love that it has become the base for many genres. That may be its best characteristic. It’s used as the backdrop for everything from romance to mysteries to suspense to fantasy. There are even stories centered around pets in space. But I haven’t seen an Amish romance in a science-fiction setting yet. Someone tell me in the comments if I’m wrong!
(By the way, I’m not forgetting that fantasy used to be a sub-category of science fiction. Full circle and all that.)
What about you? What’s the best characteristic of your favorite genre? Tell us in the comments. Don’t forget to check out some of the other authors on this hop by following the links below.
As always, until next time, please stay safe.
We live in Amish country, so that comment definitely made me smile…and wonder how that’d work. The cart and horse watch the battleship ease in between the clouds… (and now, I’m off dreaming)
Feel free to snag the idea. Science fiction is a genre I feel inadequate to write.
I also felt the pressure of having to chose a favorite genre! An impossible choice! I cheated and never specifically named a top dog, but Sci Fi is one of my true loves, too (particularly a good dystopian yarn). Happy ISWG day!
I admit my reading list of dystopian tales is exceedingly small. I should do something about that.