RM>> all types of books. You learn about different countries and cultures,
  >> the past and educated guesses at the future a well as mythology and
  >> there's Real science often buried in the science fiction books, etc..

MP>Not too long ago in another forum, I had someone tell me that there
  >doesn't need to be any real science in science-fiction in order for it to
  >be science-fiction.  IMHO, it needs to have some resemblence to science,
  >i.e. something that might be possible, or all it can be is fantasy.

This is true, and I've read both types of books, and both can be
entertaining, but I usually more enjoy the ones with some real
science in them. I enjoy learning new things..

But the books I read cover a vast range of types and subjects,
some with no redeeming qualities other than an interesting story.

I've read a lot of books listed as Fantasy, usually intended for
Young Adults, containing Witches and Vampires and all sorts of odd
things and they are a break from reading books about Science, the
Military, Lawyers, Police or the vast number of Mysteries written
by women who want to be Agatha Christie when they grow up..  B)

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