How many SF fans do you know in person?

I'm pretty proud of the fact I've created a lot of SF fans. PKD appears to be the gateway drug. I find someone who likes reading and offer them A Scanner Darkly or UBIK. If I sense that's not their thing I try Banks or maybe even Brunner.
 
You mean because it suggests an entirely different sort of genre fiction: Crime? :rolleyes:



Setting aside a solitary visit to a BFS** FantasyCon in, I think, 2002 (the one hosted somewhere beneath Charing Cross Station), I once knew someone into SFF. (Well, they're a big fan of Blake's 7. ;):))




** - Not Barristan Selmy.
 
GrantG said:
I literally know no one who enjoys science fiction, much less anyone who writes it. Is this normal? Are you "alone" as well, other than the people you met online who you never meet in person?

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I'm the only one (off-line) who focusses in literature/film/music/gaming on sci-fi. Many of my acquaintances enjoy sci-fi occasionally, but no one frequently spends his/her time on it.

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Fried Egg said:
[...] Most SF is about humanity. Even when it features aliens, it is about humanity because by looking at how aliens might be different, we see how that difference contributes to what defines us. [...]
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Would you call this charateristic of sci-fi a simulation?

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Quite often I experience suprised people who have been watching sci-fi movies and series for a long time, nevertheless considered themselves as fans. It's always a pleasure to call someone's attention to his/her bias.
 
Most of my extended family reads SF but I wouldn't call them fans. SF is just one of the many types of books they read. I'm the only one who really concentrates on SF.

At work about a quarter of my co-workers read SF to some extent. One person at work remembers growing up with her parents having SF authors stay over and work on stories with her father(an editor). She mentioned Frank Herbert, Ursula Le Guin, Mercedes Lacky and others. She is a fan and puts on conventions and SCA events.

I attended the SteamCon convention in Seattle/Tacoma WA with 1,700 in attendance. I met about a dozen friends there. In Boston I knew at least 30 people who would be considered fans.
 
I was quite surprised when I worked out how many SF fans I actually knew: 18. These are people I actually lend/borrow books from, and discuss books with. Usually happens if they enter my study and see the books on my shelves, plus there are at least 10 of us, who grew up together, liking the same books/films...
 
Found out that my new Pastor is a huge Terry Pratchett fan. Go figure.
 
hmmmm, well... My brother-in-law is a huge Sci-fi fan. Several of my close friends are sci-fi reader's, sci-fi movie and sci-fi tv fan's.

I've published two Science Fiction books so I do find myself in the company of many sci-fi readers as well.

On the whole, I wouldn't say I know that many personally, but I think we seem to find each other over time. Sci-fi has a mighty strong tractor beam pulling us in! ;)
 
In person in my own country there's not many at all. Phek Chin who works at Silverfish Books and my reporters Behonce and Joshua. That's the sum total. The rest either don't read at all or don't read SFF.

Outside Malaysia, I know oodles of people. There's GOLLUM who I have met up with so do know in person. There's whole loads of people in the UK and Europe including Morpheus.

I do wish I knew more people right here though because then the bookstores would bring in more books.
 
Hmm, I know a few people who like fantasy, but SF? I can't think of anyone, off the top of my head. My brother read Ender's Game, and loved it, but stopped there. I think that's the closest that anyone I know has got!
 
I actually only know two people who like Sci-Fi and Fantasy. I have met many people at Sci-Fi Conventions who of course, like Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but only two people in my area.
 
Not too many of my friends or family are Science Fiction fans. My brother likes SF, however he doesn't read - seems to only like the films, series and radio shows. Odd friends like Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica... but more often than not they don't know much about the authors or obscure SF.
Another thing I find is there are so many male fans of SF and I rarely find any girls who enjoy a good SF novel, series or film.
 
I'm not so sure about this. Whenever I frequent the SF section of the bookstore I'm much more likely to run into females, of course F is lumped with SF there, so maybe the truth is that females prefer Fantasy.
 
Parson said:
I'm not so sure about this. Whenever I frequent the SF section of the bookstore I'm much more likely to run into females, of course F is lumped with SF there, so maybe the truth is that females prefer Fantasy.
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I go to 3 or 4 Science Fiction Conventions a year and there are usually as many females there as males. :)
 
I normally encounter women liking F, I've never had a conversation with a SF fan whose a girl. Unless I've convinced a friend to read a book or watch something. But it's not really the same.
It might just be the area where I live. But people are normally surprised to learn that I am a girl and I like old and new SF.
 
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