Diverse Position Science Fiction

I really enjoyed Bloodchild actually.  It was strange but interesting.  I think one of the best thing about scifi is getting to create a whole other culture and way of living. Bloodchild is a good example of this. It is a totally alien world and way of live using different part of our world and imagination.  I personally think this is way fantasy and scifi is the prefect place to explore diverse position of life since you don't have to weighted down but any sort of human history or idea, you could literally make your own.  So It's always a little disappointing to see a lot of the scifi and fantasy still be mostly based on white western heterosexual gender ideas when there isn't any reason for it.  I'm going to ask every writer who think aliens from a totally different planet would have the same ideas of gender, race, sexuality as human often do, why the hell that makes sense.

Cyberpunk and Steampunk and other forms of punk

I've never really been into cyberpunk or steampunk plots for the most part. Reading Johnny Mnemonic was interesting.  Something about the classic mafia story in a future world allows for a lot cool ideas and plays off both stories. I think that's what Cyberpunk and Steampunk is good at, being two concepts into the same world. While Cyberpunk is the future while Steampunk is often the past.  In some ways they are totally opposite but in the way they use their tones and idea to tie though two worlds.

Bloodchild

1.  That was interesting ride. I was trying to decode what was going on from the beginning. Are Terrans humans or something else? Are we still on earth? Is this going where I think it's going? There were a lot of alien concept though at you quickly.  I like a lot of stuff like this, an interaction between aliens and humans. Sort of an after invasion or after first contact sort of story. This story does a good job at establishing the history and culture of world, while still allowing some questions. I thought it was interesting.

2. I have sort of getting an alien dystopian feelings from the opening pretty strongly. The sort of distorted family united and the rules and relations started to give it away pretty quickly.  I had a hard to times placing or imagining what T'Gatoi looked like though. The story sort of blends this sort of dystopian feeling with usual alien scifi feelings.

3. I think it would dark could still be easily adapted into a film.  Using the time to development and show character relationships while also telling a complete story. Film could really sell the locations and create an otherworldly feeling using lighting and composition and color work to really create a mood.  

COME TO VENUS MELANCHOLY

I really really enjoyed reading COME TO VENUS MELANCHOLY.  Robots are a cool concept in scifi but often I don't connect to them especially if it's played really boring.  I often can't think of them as scary but honestly I'd like to be friends with a robot.  I really like the character in it, she is very understandable  and sympathetic. I wanted to help her out in the end but I thought the end was still super powerful.  

Opera and adventure in Space

I was surprised how much I liked The Martian. I thought it would be harder to follow. I read the novel Dune in middle school and I guess I thought it would be like that.  But I couldn't have been more wrong.  The Martian is super easy to follow and the character was really relatable.  It's a very different kind of scifi novel.  I wasn't surprised that it was compared to other land survive novels. It seems scifi has this thing with taking other genre and putting them in SPACE.  Space Opera, Space Adventure, Space western.  You can being a lot of neat things to an old genre by place in a new place..like Space.    

Contemporary Urban Fantasy and Gaiman

I've seen a lot of bits and piece of Gaiman's work,  most fully Coraline which I love. The concept of a urban fantasy in contemporary time is interesting.  There is something new and fun about add fantasy to a urban setting.  I really enjoyed reading the start of the Graveyard books. Gaiman does a great job of making his stories Contemporary while also being timeless. Coraline is modern but you could never tell 100% what year it is,  This makes the story seem timeless.  The Graveyard books seem similar, it's obviously not olden times, but it's seems like it takes place in a contemporary setting. I think this concept works well with fantasy and Gaiman is good at this.  Using fantasy and myth ideas and using them to built on a contemporary setting in a cool and new way.

Futility of trying to replace Harry Potter

Now I'm a fan of Harry Potter, it's hard to find someone who isn't.  I wasn't a crazy fan as child, I didn't read the first few books till middle school, and I didn't read the last few books till high school. So I was late to party as usual.  So I bonded with it in a strange way.

Now, trying to read another and new youth fantasy books I've always had a hard time getting into them.  I'm not sure why but I have not found a books series that captured that same light.  I often don't enjoy young adult book because they usually have too much "adult" for me.  I tend to like my fantasy to be more about fun then trying to get to that edge they think 13-17 will enjoy. Again this may be 100% on me. I've almost felt like everything is trying to recapture what happened with Harry Potter, which I think it's impossible. I think it'll only happen once and can't be replaced in the way people want it too. You can't recapture lighting in a bottle.