Some of the best "Sci Fi" I've ever read isn't even "Sci Fi."  Still 
really good books, though :)  (I'm thinking of Donaldson's GAP Cycle).

I think part of the reason that Sci Fi remains a niche market is mainly 
because many authors get the "Sci" part right, and the "Fi" part wrong. 
  So many of the books are just downright *bad*, and even many of the 
good ones have poor character development (wasn't it said of Asimov that 
he "[wrote] about people as if he'd never met one"?).

I would really love to see more quality Sci Fi, that's actually good 
fiction and not just good Sci Fi.  I realize Star Trek made attempts at 
this (to the point of ignoring the science except as a Deus Ex Machina), 
but they failed so horribly at the fiction part that it remains in a 
class by itself.

...Chambers

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