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Originally Posted by Catlady
Ha. I would say that this book club is filled with people who love science fiction and want to read it all the time! I suppose that's because I dislike it so much, and therefore I am hyperaware of it. Without looking back at the nominations, my impression is that somehow there have been science fiction choices in every month.
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My own impression is that while there might have been SF nominations each month we haven't had one as a selection - I don't think
Dandelion Wine, for example, qualifies even though Bradbury is known for SF.
So far, so good; I'm pleased that the selections overall tend toward general interest. One of the major changes we made in crafting a new book club was to get ride of genre categories and I think that's been a positive change; as I said above, genre tends to be polarizing. I'm certainly no science fiction fan myself, but if one wins, I'll read it. I figure it won't kill me and perhaps I'll surprise myself.
Even at that, while I don't like science fiction in the popular perception of little green men pointing ray guns (sorry, I know this is a gross aspersion, but I couldn't resist!), I actually quite like dystopian fiction which frequently qualifies.
Is
Brave New World, for example, SF? I came close this month to nominating a dystopian book I quite liked back in the day which I suppose qualifies as SF, Ira Levin's
This Perfect Day. But I knew the technology would be terribly dated, which might have been funny or might have been stupid. Or both.