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Hmm. For me, the main attraction of fantasy and sf is an unrecognizable world, where you don't know the rules and must learn to navigate all over again. Made-up worlds, other planets (preferably with aliens, and not furry ones), far future societies. Even historical fiction falls in this category for me, but the history must be old enough so that the society no longer resembles our modern one (at least 300 years - I'm not interested in newer history than that).
An unrecognizable world is the most exciting thing about any fiction for me (except for contemporary murder mysteries, and I don't read that many of those). Funnily enough it seems to be the very thing most people who don't read speculative fiction dislike - I've read and heard that argument before, many times. One man's bread and so on...
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