Part of the answer must depend on your own tastes, at least as they are right now. What did you like or dislike about the works on your list? For that matter, what do you hope to get out of reading science fiction?
Mostly I read fiction for the entertainment value. I enjoy the stories. The science fiction stories I have read, I’ve enjoyed because the stories were imaginative.
Entertainment value is good, but I must press you to be much more specific. Let me just say a lot of science fiction is “imaginative,” and there’s a lot of science fiction. You don’t have all the time in the world, and there’s plenty of writing that’s imaginative, but will still seem like crap to you—or at least not as good as some other stuff you might be reading. Anyway, what do you mean by “imaginative?”
Part of the answer must depend on your own tastes, at least as they are right now. What did you like or dislike about the works on your list? For that matter, what do you hope to get out of reading science fiction?
Mostly I read fiction for the entertainment value. I enjoy the stories. The science fiction stories I have read, I’ve enjoyed because the stories were imaginative.
Entertainment value is good, but I must press you to be much more specific. Let me just say a lot of science fiction is “imaginative,” and there’s a lot of science fiction. You don’t have all the time in the world, and there’s plenty of writing that’s imaginative, but will still seem like crap to you—or at least not as good as some other stuff you might be reading. Anyway, what do you mean by “imaginative?”