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View Poll Results: What Genre of Fiction do you read most often?
Mystery/Crime 53 45.69%
Humor 2 1.72%
Romance 10 8.62%
Science Fiction 57 49.14%
Fantasy 51 43.97%
Western 2 1.72%
Adventure 6 5.17%
Horror 7 6.03%
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Old 09-13-2014, 03:42 PM   #46
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Science fiction by far. I dislike the "punk" variety of sci-fi but space opera, hard sci-fi, anything like that goes.
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Old 09-14-2014, 06:45 AM   #47
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I picked Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.

For Crime/Mystery, I tend to like thrillers.

For Fantasy, I've been leaning more towards the Urban and Dystopia stuff; It is what my kids tend to read.

I also mix in some normal fiction.
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I tend to mostly read Science-fiction and Fantasy. Within those genres, I prefer space operas (like "Doc" Smith for old school and Peter F. Hamilton for the new age stuff) and sword and sorcery (Conan, Lankhmar, Jirel of Jory...).

I tend to throw in some historical fiction on occasion, usually either something with Knights or something nautical.

The only genre I actively avoid is urban fantasy. I've tried Butcher, Devon Monk, Illona Andrews... I just can't get into it I guess.
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I tend to mostly read Science-fiction and Fantasy. Within those genres, I prefer space operas (like "Doc" Smith for old school and Peter F. Hamilton for the new age stuff) and sword and sorcery (Conan, Lankhmar, Jirel of Jory...).

I tend to throw in some historical fiction on occasion, usually either something with Knights or something nautical.

The only genre I actively avoid is urban fantasy. I've tried Butcher, Devon Monk, Illona Andrews... I just can't get into it I guess.
As UF goes, there's quite a range you've sampled there. I never liked Devon Monk's stuff. Too depressing. Was Ilona Andrews too much leaning to romance for you? Don't tell anyone but I have never gotten into Butcher either. Don't really know why but just Didn't grab me and I like UF. I can't think of any sci/fi uf off the top of my head...maybe that would be your genre!!!
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As UF goes, there's quite a range you've sampled there. I never liked Devon Monk's stuff. Too depressing. Was Ilona Andrews too much leaning to romance for you? Don't tell anyone but I have never gotten into Butcher either. Don't really know why but just Didn't grab me and I like UF. I can't think of any sci/fi uf off the top of my head...maybe that would be your genre!!!
It wasn't the romance that got me with Andrews... it was just the same general disinterest I had in Butcher and Monk. I haven't written off UF completely yet. I know Tad Williams just finished a UF trilogy, so I may give that a shot.

A few people I know have made the argument that Lev Grossman's Magicians is UF, I don't really agree, but I did like all three of those quite a bit.
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It wasn't the romance that got me with Andrews... it was just the same general disinterest I had in Butcher and Monk. I haven't written off UF completely yet. I know Tad Williams just finished a UF trilogy, so I may give that a shot.

A few people I know have made the argument that Lev Grossman's Magicians is UF, I don't really agree, but I did like all three of those quite a bit.
Tad Williams is quite different from Butcher/Andrews/Monk. I read the one about Heaven. More world building, more humor. UF in general is just another "crime" or mystery sub-genre and I didn't see you list mysteries as something you loved. I haven't read Magicians, but have heard of it and I can see where some would call it UF. Charles De Lint is like that for me. It's not really UF, but it's sort of UF. That might be more your style of prose, come to think of it (I don't really read Lint, but have started some of the books to try them).

I think you might need a sword and sorcery with UF mix to get you interested!!!
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From a fiction point of view, I tend to read mostly SF&F, followed by mystery and adventure. I've found that there is a lot of cross over in these areas. Asimov, best known for SF, wrote some really good mystery short storys, the Black Widowers stories. Randall Garrett managed to combine alternate universe/magic fantasy with mystery.
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From a fiction point of view, I tend to read mostly SF&F, followed by mystery and adventure. I've found that there is a lot of cross over in these areas. Asimov, best known for SF, wrote some really good mystery short storys, the Black Widowers stories. Randall Garrett managed to combine alternate universe/magic fantasy with mystery.
Asimov also wrote some novel length mystery fiction. I have always enjoyed his short mysteries. they have always got a clever twist at the end.
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Old 09-14-2014, 10:34 PM   #54
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So hard! I was tied between sci-fi, & mystery but sci fi is my first love so.... that's up there.
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I'm very surprised that Romance isn't getting higher (much higher) numbers.
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I'm very surprised that Romance isn't getting higher (much higher) numbers.
It surprises me as well. I've always heard that Romance novels are such a big part of the market in terms of books every year and I assumed that it was because so many people read Romances but so far that doesn't seem to be the case.
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I lean towards fantasy but read almost as much thriller/ mystery and some horror Dean Koontz etc...hard to classify some.
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It surprises me as well. I've always heard that Romance novels are such a big part of the market in terms of books every year and I assumed that it was because so many people read Romances but so far that doesn't seem to be the case.
I wonder if it's because romance tends to cross genres quite a bit. My wife reads a ton of romance novels, but they're almost always fantasy/romance, and if you ask her what she likes to read, she'll say "fantasy."
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Fantasy for me. Fascinating poll results between the top 3.
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These categories don't line up exactly with what I use but here are mine:
By pages: Fantasy
By # of books: Science Fiction (which includes a lot of short stories)

Fantasy is split between epic/traditional fantasy and paranormal/urban fantasy. Science fiction is split between space sci-fi (military/space opera), post-apocalyptic, and "other" normally near future sci-fi. I wasn't sure which category steampunk fits into.
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