Who are you? Why Fantasy/Scifi?

[Esmenet]

Interesting that I never noticed this thread.

I'm Beth, I'm 19 and I live in Michigan. I work at my boyfriend's 7-11 managing money and ordering product. I also buy and stock bananas. :P I had a second job up until recently of teaching youth and children art classes, and now I just paint and draw in my spare time.

I got into the genre because of the Legend of Zelda video game series, and I've been hooked on both video games and Fantasy fiction ever since. I used to aspire to becoming an author, but now I just write for fun, more poetry than anything else.

I recently moved out, and I'm enjoying life without parental oversight, but I do visit my parents twice a week for dinner.

I have a bad habit of skipping meals when I'm reading a good book, and I have my boyfriend to thank for forcing me to eat before I starve. Other than that, I enjoy reading and responding to the wonderful people here at sffworld, so thanks for that as well.

[psikeyhackr]

I'm Karl. I'm over 50. I read my first SF book before Star Trek went on the air. The Original Star Trek that is.

The book was: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18492...-h/18492-h.htm

I regard Sci-Fi and Fantasy as very different areas though some books mix the genres and can be hard to classify. People that regard Star Wars as science fiction cause me to grind my teeth. I broke down and read Lord of the Rings long before the movies came out and ever since I have asked myself, "Why the hell did I do that?"

I probably went into electrical engineering because of sci-fi. My grade school teachers didn't teach science at all so I taught myself a lot because of sci-fi books. I built my first computer in 1978. You had to solder them together back then. Just plugging components together is a bore but they are so much more powerful now. It's amazing.

I'll probably be buying a netbook in the next 6 months. These things will be an interesting demonstration of technology affecting culture which is one thing sci-fi is about. Windows may be dominant in the West but first time buyers looking for cheap computers may go with Linux all over the 3rd world.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/.../09/2003443156

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