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Good to hear i am not the only one, @KevinBurke i read fiction to get away from things, life is crappy enough with good distractions, let alone without.
I think what attracts me in a lot of M-SF is the winning, wars, fights, battles.. As i hate the Dystopian crap that seems to rule the SF roost at the moment (see my remark to Kevin) at least this genre shows things to come are not always bad, there is enough of that in the real world.
I occasionally grab some old SF pulp from the 50's and 60's full of hope and ideas for the future, today's stuff is filled with nightmares and misery. Even Fantasy is sliding down that path, look at the blood and gore Game of Thrones is pushing in your face.
But i digress, reading is fun, if it is not, you read the wrong stuff.
Oh there is another genre i love to read, but they are rare like gem-stones in a garbage dump, Detective SF, you know like how the Asimov Robot series started out with.
Anyone has some good recommendations?
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