Chosen Genres in Fiction

[Vanathor]

So I thought I would put the question out there.

When you read a novel, or play a quest or a game, or watch a movie, or interact with media in general - what do you enjoy?

My 'typical' read is a good fantasy novel, though I love sci-fi to a lesser extent too. I like the idea of exploring other worlds, and seeing how places so alien from our own could exist in such a manner. The idea of meeting life that is not ours, and do not think like us.

But my true hidden pleasure, and I would never admit this IRL is romance. I am not talking the cheesy over sexed pieces of shit like 50 Shades of Grey. Heck not even the vast majority of romance novels out there, given they tend to be aimed at over hormonal housewives and not people of my current demographics.

I like the under dog story I like it when the nice guys do not finish last, and he gets a happy ending of his own. Maybe its part wish fulfillment or something, but I get some real pleasure out of a story like that. Out of the idea one does not need to be an ex-navy seal jarhead musclebound asshole to get the girl. No idea of how 'real' that is... but maybe that is why I like it in fiction, if only to have a taste of what I do not have in real life.

So QQ, what genres do you like?

 

[Jack Trade]

My personal library generally has an mostly even split between sci-fi and fantasy with a rapidly growing number of horror novels (most of them psychological horror) and a very small amount of romance novels.

Fantasy mainly because they generally have an interesting magic system I can think up ways to abuse, sci-fi because I love large well built universes and sci-fi mostly uses this to make up for OP tech and horror because I need something to keep me a wake for the graveyard shift.

so long as the story as a basic underlining logic I can follow and interesting characters. I'm generally going to give it a quick look though annoyingly the story romance sub-plot can make or break a story for me but so long as it's not bad enough for me to fantasize about nailing the Author hands to his/her's desk with corkscrews I can mostly ignore it.

 

[Biigoh]

Fantasy or sci fi. Bad ends are also nice.

 

[Xicree]

Science Fiction on the scale of extreme hardscifi written by scientists as a way of getting interesting heavy ideas off their minds, back down to space opera's, so long as the scifi actually works and isnt full of rubber forehead aliens who are basically just humans then I will love it.

Fantasy of all kinds. Especially fantasy which takes on science fiction elements and blends the two seamlessly. I like to get scifi methodology all over my fantastic stuff.

Shakespeare... because hell the moment you actually get the lingo you can't help but be amused by the word-juggling and scenario writing. (Other non-modern playwrites hold

Also, i LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!! a good Villain. Not just someone hateable... but someone who is hateable yet in the same time inspiring and AWE inspiring as well. This isn't easy, and is often not done well.... but dammit when it's done right it can be beautiful.

Explorations of Alien minds and modes of thinking. This above all else. Be it in fantasy, scifi, or even a naturalist exploration of what could be on this animal's mind... THIS makes my day.



... this one also share's a taste for dark endings... the hero does not win, everything ment to be saved was a bloody lie, the dark things creeping gain their foothold...

And on the optimistic side, this one also loves when that is turned around... the black things in the dark, offer their hand, the bloody lie told becomes a the bold basis for new truth, the beauty to be found in a bleak hostile environment....