Come on, guys. Seriously, I feel like there are so many questions about fantastical animals and sci-fi/fantasy books on this list! Nothing wrong with that of course, but as I don’t really read those genres, it’s getting tough for me to find something to write about! On top of which most of the sci-fi I’ve read isn’t exactly cheerful. The Martian, LoTR, Hail Mary…. why on earth would I want to visit any of those??? So yeah, unfortunately I really don’t have an answer for this week’s prompt. So I’m turning it over to you guys. I know some of you are avid sci-fi readers, so can you tell me about some sci-fi books that are ones you’d want to visit, and why? Share any thoughts you have in the comments!
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Dune would be an interesting world to live in but, I don’t have the guts to live in an extreme dessert environment.
Right? That’s the thing I kept coming up against. There were the books with great stories and characters I’d like to meet, then there were the stories that would be interesting because of being in space or whatever…. but would I actually WANT to go? No, no I would not.
I feel like I am more of a fantasy reader than a SciFi reader. I am not big on space, aliens and the such but I do like some of what falls under the fantasy genre like fairies, elves, goblins, vampires, etc., etc. But I could see how if you aren’t into those types it would be hard to answer.
I read the occasional sci-fi (Hail Mary most recently) and the occasional fantasy (Spinning Silver last year), so it’s not that I don’t EVER read these genres. But I think it’s more that the question was places from sci-fi you’d like to visit…. and is it just me or are most sci-fi settings not exactly dream vacation spots? Like I don’t want to hang out in space on a broken spaceship or head to Mars to be stranded there or go to a fantasy village that is regularly attacked and seems particularly horrible for women. So then that means the ones I HAVE read really aren’t any use!
What prompt would you have picked for this week instead? 🙂
Hmmm. That’s a tough one. I would say just a more general “book settings you’d like to visit,” but we just did that for Top Ten Tuesday I think, and I’ve done it a few other times in the past. But that would at least have given me a shot! Maybe something like fictional events you’d like to attend, or fictional towns. Just something not as genre-specific, I guess!