I'm a woman and I love sci-fi and fantasy. Movies, books, short stories in vintage sci-fi magazines, I love them all!

i'm a sci fic freak i will pick one over any other genre. sadly nairaland hardly writes a story on sci fic

I'm quite the fan of Sci-fi. I have read most of the Dune universe books.

peacettw:



Females hating sci-fi Wherever did you get that impression from? I live for anything sci-fi. movies, books, documentaries...pls count me in. My best birthday gift till date given to me 10 years ago remains a book on Aliens. It is still in my library Do you know that the moon is hollow and that when a meteor hits it, it rings like a bell. it was much closer to earth during the time the pyramids were built ....and so forth. If you want to make me happy, a good sci do movie or novel will do.

Read Abducted by Robin Cook and you will never remain the same. Also watch Ex-Machina

Seen Ex-machina, loved it, absolutely loved the ending.
I would recommend you read, 'The girl with all the gifts' by M.R Carey, I wasn't able to put it down.

Sci-fi books are really interesting but not easy to come by. Some books tend to have some science fiction in them but I don't think I have come across one that is wholly sci -fi.

I'm a definitely a sci-fi fan!
Read all books by these enigma
Isaac Asimov
Robert henlein
Arthur c. Clarke
Frederick Pohl

SirWere:
I noticed this trend first on NL, then now on other numerous Whatsapp groups and online bookclubs.

Normally, I shrug this off. The average Nigerian doesn't give a damn about stories and prefer watching crappy love stories or reading celebrity nonsense and what not.


However, whenever I have the extraordinary luck to connect or view stories by true fans of literature; I notice most of them shy away from Sci-Fi.
Indeed a very rare minority show intrest in sci-fi or write stories about it (Nairaland as a case study).

Why?? What could be the cause of this



On a related note, I'm yet to see a female fan of Sci-fi on NL or anywhere else.

Do chicks hate Sci-fi or wha


Cc Teempakguy, blackjewelry, Preboy, Apollux, et-al...

bro I understand ur situation, I can't ever get good books to buy, though iv started downloading them as PDF, I love the stuff by Brian Aldis, my dad was an avid Sci fi reader so I picked up from him. I'm currently about a book called EON.

kajsa08:
tommy bosoms by Stephen King

Tommyknockers

The best sci-fi I have read...
Stranger in a strange land
Judas unchained
Battlefield earth
Mission Earth
etc......

There is something called choice. Maybe I dont find it appealing same way I hate romamce books
but Id rather read scifi than read romance books
The few sci fi books I read were pretty good sha
but its not my thing

Zita55:
That's why, it's called ***Fiction** .

Too boring and it doesn't exist

False
They create basis for wider imaginations and advancement, many of those things are already being experimented and researches still going on.

It is all about future imaginations and meant for advanced thinkers, but some can't comprehend and find it boring.

For example, some centuries ago, our present world would have sounded crazy, unreal and boring if ever described in writing.

realmindz:


False
They create basis for wider imaginations and advancement, many of those things are already being experimented and researches still going on.

It is all about future imaginations and meant for advanced thinkers, but some can't comprehend and find it boring.

For example, some centuries ago, our present world would have sounded crazy, unreal and boring if ever described in writing.

realmindz:


False
They create basis for wider imaginations and advancement, many of those things are already being experimented and researches still going on.

It is all about future imaginations and meant for advanced thinkers, but some can't comprehend and find it boring.

For example, some centuries ago, our present world would have sounded crazy, unreal and boring if ever described in writing.

indeed!!

It is because its fiction SIMPLE

vislabraye:
If I am to be a writer, one of the genres i'll write is science fiction. In fact I love all forms of speculative fictions- (horror and fiction).
But you need go authors. Michael Crichton wrote a science fiction novel based on cloning. Can't remember the name but the novel was good. But one has to understand that there are different levels of sci fi. Some are mild and some are hard core. It depends a lot on the writers.

That'll be Jurassic Park

Dotng:


I loved the concept of Ex-Machina. I have been trying to get movies of the same concept. Can you recommend some?

Prometheus is good. Just make sure you watch it in high definition with the subtitles on

khalhokage:


Seen Ex-machina, loved it, absolutely loved the ending.
I would recommend you read, 'The girl with all the gifts' by M.R Carey, I wasn't able to put it down.

Will do. Thanks a lot. If you know of any other good movie or novel. let me know.

warrah:


Tommyknockers

see ehn my broda, I tried modifying d tin no gree so I kuku leave am like dat for boda sabinus

Simply put, most people especially Africans lack imagination. They forgot that there's only only one, which is "Thought are Things".

Every current ideas, thoughts and imaginations will become future things and services, the whites understand that, that's why they stimulate their children imaginations with toys, books and tv documentary and shows that plants idea seed early in life.

When i read people say it's boring, i laugh. The current level of civilization is built on countless cycles of fantasy, moral and scifi ideas from many centuries ago. Well, i may excuse our level of imagination based on our current socio-economic conditions; but the whites also went through this path but it never drown their imaginations and optimism, so we have no excuse.

For the interested in more scifi books read "The Expanse"set of books, starting with "Leviation Wakes", it is a hard scifi.

SirWere:
I noticed this trend first on NL, then now on other numerous Whatsapp groups and online bookclubs.

Normally, I shrug this off. The average Nigerian doesn't give a damn about stories and prefer watching crappy love stories or reading celebrity nonsense and what not.


However, whenever I have the extraordinary luck to connect or view stories by true fans of literature; I notice most of them shy away from Sci-Fi.
Indeed a very rare minority show intrest in sci-fi or write stories about it (Nairaland as a case study).

Why?? What could be the cause of this



On a related note, I'm yet to see a female fan of Sci-fi on NL or anywhere else.

Do chicks hate Sci-fi or wha


Cc Teempakguy, blackjewelry, Preboy, Apollux, et-al...

Wtf! How many girls have you seen/been with for you to conclude such?

our scifi na jazz, witches and wizard tins

The major reason why Nigerians are not interest in science fiction is because of the abstractness of science in this environment. i.e. science is hardly felt. Science in Nigeria is only limited to books. Most of us that were good in physics then cannot even fix simple electrical appliances. I remember those days my parents and siblings would become so disappointed in me because of my inability to fix electrical appliances even though I make A1 in physics and mathematics. The reason for this abstractness is lack of scientific equipments in secondary schools and universities.

I think it has to do with the Nigerian altitude toward science in general. Nigeria is tilted toward the cultural and religious way of life, secondly I think we are so mentally lazy that we are quick to attribute everything to a Divine act instead of looking at the scientific and practical side of things.

writing sci-fi requires deep knowledge of how things work in the ream of science as some work are term bad Sci-fi because they will not hold even in the weirdest of Scientific theory.

Also writers of Science fiction has to have a broad mind as you will be exploring an area nobody has explored before.
Speaking of which, does anyone have the sci-fi e-book version mission earth?

am a sci fi fan, i read sci fi books and watch sci fi movies. some of my favs are enders game, star wars.

unclezuma:


That'll be Jurassic Park

No. Jurassic Park us another interesting sci fi.movie. This one is one of his last novels b4 he passed on.

SirWere:
I noticed this trend first on NL, then now on other numerous Whatsapp groups and online bookclubs.

Normally, I shrug this off. The average Nigerian doesn't give a damn about stories and prefer watching crappy love stories or reading celebrity nonsense and what not.


However, whenever I have the extraordinary luck to connect or view stories by true fans of literature; I notice most of them shy away from Sci-Fi.
Indeed a very rare minority show intrest in sci-fi or write stories about it (Nairaland as a case study).

Why?? What could be the cause of this



On a related note, I'm yet to see a female fan of Sci-fi on NL or anywhere else.

Do chicks hate Sci-fi or wha

R u kiddin me?! What nonsense luv stories? I'd pick sci-fi n horror over all dt mushiness anytym...I'm a female sci-fi fan on NL...Nw u knw...

peacettw:



Females hating sci-fi Wherever did you get that impression from? I live for anything sci-fi. movies, books, documentaries...pls count me in. My best birthday gift till date given to me 10 years ago remains a book on Aliens. It is still in my library Do you know that the moon is hollow and that when a meteor hits it, it rings like a bell. it was much closer to earth during the time the pyramids were built ....and so forth. If you want to make me happy, a good sci do movie or novel will do.

Read Abducted by Robin Cook and you will never remain the same. Also watch Ex-Machina

I have Ex-machina but have not been able to watch it yet.

Will try out Abducted.

You can try this ones out, they are good IMO,
Douglas Richard - The Brain Web, Wired
Richard K Morgan - Takeshi Kovacs
Dani Kollin & Eytan Kollin - the Unincorporated Man (quite an interesting one)
Marcus Sakey - Brilliance Trilogy
Vaughn Heppner - The Lost Starship
Tad Williams - Otherlands

Will search out some more and post them.

vislabraye:


No. Jurassic Park us another interesting sci fi.movie. This one is one of his last novels b4 he passed on.

will definitely look it up though there was cloning in JP...

One of my best ever novel is a sci-fi triology by Julian May called the Pliocene epoch. I'm still looking for an e-book version of it.

And, they are about 5-6 books actually.

One Nigerian Sci-fi I enjoyed reading was The Fist 2.0 on the naked Convos. The writer was fantastic. And it was more interesting because everything was based in Nigeria.

So if it's based locally,I would gladly read a Sci-fi story. NL writers I know who can totally pull that off are Royver and Frank316.

I think Royver has done something like that on NL.

orimsamsam:
I hate science fiction because it is far away from reality

Isn't that why it's called "fiction"

Besides, Sci-fi is not as far away from reality as you wish. There are many inventions that have been predicted from sci-fi novels.

The internet of today was predicted by Neuromancer for example.

herald9:
I love sci-fi novels and I'll continue loving it.

But then, I only love sci-fi stories from foreign authors cause I know that's their reality out there.

What does an average Nigerian know about robots, flying cars and space exploration that would culminate into a beautiful sci-fi novel that would keep you on your toes, without you getting bored to death?

Here in Naija, we are still living in a semi-rural society that is still striving to push its luck on areas of science and technology... And someone would describing flying cars, skyscrapers, space exploration and vice versa in a Nigerian setting?

Haba... We should be able to differentiate between science fiction and a lie na .

If you want sci-fi business to thrive in Nigeria, start with the basics, don't skip timelines. The novel should be more 'chemical and biological' in nature instead of full-fledged techy.

Every novel mirrors a society. Let's take our time.

The war of the worlds was written in the 1800's; when england was very much like Nigeria in terms of intellectual disparity and general enlightment.

Yet the novel was a bestseller and predicted war machines that eventually came to fruition.

Our society no be hindrace jare >

Alohamora:


Wtf! How many girls have you seen/been with for you to conclude such?

A lot of girls actually.


Most prefer reading about romance or whatnot.