For Fantasy/Sci-Fiction Lovers: What Makes You Reada Book?

[Aoi Magi]

First of all, I hate when people mix fantasy and scifi, they are not the same genre dammit!

Next, I often pick up books based on suggestions or summaries, primarily on goodreads. Basically, what shows is what sells.

You also need to understand your target audience, like most americans seem to prefer a politics-centric thriller, whereas people in the eastern part of the world seem to appreciate romantic things more.

But the most important thing is content, especially if you are writing scifi, things have to seem plausible and possible, You need to describe things so that people can visualize them without making it seem like a science lecture.The hardest part is to see things from your reader's perspective and only explain things that demand an explanation, while still allowing the reader to use their own imagination to fill in the gaps.

Lastly, I cannot recommend my favorite author enough, Cixin Liu. Take a look at the "three body problem" and the last book in the series, remembrance of earth's past. It even contains a beautiful fairytale within a scifi, and the ideas are amazing.