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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
My apologies for that needless repetition on my part—
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I just didn't want you to think your post had been ignored ... well, I suppose it had been, but I wanted you to know there was a reason for it.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
No, sorry, I didn't mean your post at all. I was referring to the earlier discussion where a certain word came up. |
Oh dear, that one started with a post of mine too. Not trying to take the blame here, just observing that it is so easy to release a spoiler without meaning to. Normally I wouldn't have thought genre was much of a spoiler, but in the case of
Never Let Me Go and
The Girl With All the Gifts I can see that it is - both these books are much better started without such preconceived ideas.
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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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Certainly many months have had some sci-fi representation. War and Summer seem to have missed out (unless I missed something), and Friends got a fantasy rather than a sci-fi.
If we were looking at this on a sales-percentage basis then the sci-fi is better represented than romance or religion/inspirational, both of which significantly outsell SF/F (
see here), and so we might expect to see more of them show up here.