Sci-fi?

[naosu]

Curious to ask how big is the sci-fi genre audience on Scribble Hub? Anyone have an idea?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Not big.

 

[Alski]

Write a good one and i might read it

 

[OokamiKasumi]

Curious to ask how big is the sci-fi genre audience on Scribble Hub? Anyone have an idea?

Alski said it:
-- "Write a good one and I might read it."

There are no good sci-fi stories on the 'Hub, so there's no audience. Yet.

So, write one. Just remember to follow--

Azimov's Law of Science Fiction:
"If you can take the Science out of the Science-Fiction -- you did it Wrong."

 

[Rhaps]

Alski said it:
-- "Write a good one and I might read it."

There are no good sci-fi stories on the 'Hub, so there's no audience. Yet.

So, write one. Just remember to follow--

Azimov's Law of Science Fiction:
"If you can take the Science out of the Science-Fiction -- you did it Wrong."

Meanwhile, I have a pension to rationalize everything. Shoving the science into fantasy

 

[OokamiKasumi]

Meanwhile, I have a pension to rationalize everything. Shoving the science into fantasy

As one does, on the 'Hub.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Curious to ask how big is the sci-fi genre audience on Scribble Hub? Anyone have an idea?

There is a site called "Space Battles" that seems to have the strongest Sci-Fi following. Was a bit of a pain to wade through so I lost the bookmark - it's all forum-based so stories are done as posts, and comments are sub-threads.

 

[Leti]

There is a site called "Space Battles" that seems to have the strongest Sci-Fi following. Was a bit of a pain to wade through so I lost the bookmark - it's all forum-based so stories are done as posts, and comments are sub-threads.

And another one called "Sufficient Velocity."

 

[CharlesEBrown]

And another one called "Sufficient Velocity."

First time I've heard of that one. Cool. If I ever decide to write pure sci-fi (I tend to do hybrid stuff or straight fantasy... or occasionally horror) I'll have to check it out.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Write science fantasy instead, it's more interesting.

Also, science fiction is all fantasy anyway.

 

[beast_regards]

Science fiction and fantasy audiences are effectively the one and the same at the sites like this.

It may always not be the case, but for web novels, it often is.

Spacebattles are the same, why they nominally recruited their original userbase from the Star Wars fans, it is no longer the case. In the present day, they are Worm fan-fiction site.

 

[John_Owl]

Curious to ask how big is the sci-fi genre audience on Scribble Hub? Anyone have an idea?

Well, there's two ways to view it.
1, There's fewer stories, so it's a niche you can fill here.
or 2, there's fewer stories here because no one here wants to read it.
You'll have to post to find out. But then you have the issue of is it THAT story, or is it a general lack of audience?

 

[Goodmann]

Asimov, Hal Clement, Larry Niven, C.J. Cherryh -- read the good stuff first. Then if you write SF here I will read it.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Just make sure it IS Sci-Fi and not Skiffy or Sy-Fy...

 

[beast_regards]

Sufficient Velocity is not a sci-fi site either.

It's basically Spacebattles 2.0 (or rather 1.1). Sufficient Velocity is the splinter site that separated from the Spacebattles over the mod disagreement, but their community is compromised of the same people. If someone has an account on Spacebattles, he or she have the same account on Sufficient Velocity, the only exception is when you are banned from one but not from other. You could imagine SB and SV as identical twins, indistinguishable from each other in every single detail, which act the same, look the same, and even think the same, but then their parents have an argument and one dyed her hair blue...

Neither SV and SB are sci-fi sites per se, but you certainly could post there.

Their audience doesn't look for sci-fi or fantasy, they look to satisfy their inner munchkin urge to min-max everything, and rule lawyer out of everything. As a result, they love fan-fiction, not necessarily sci-fi but the setting where there are established rules, and then they want to break that rules because they are smarter than the universe.

Sufficient Velocity is the reference to their obsession with calculations. As everyone knows, there is no such thing as "enough dakka" and thus there is no "sufficient velocity" either, hence the name.

The original fiction isn't popular as a result. Not because of the genre, but because no one knows what the rules are. If no one knows what the rules are, where is the fun with outsmarting them?

That's why it is mostly Worm.

Worm is the SB original superhero setting (hence theoretically sci-fi) where powers work the specific way, and couldn't work otherwise, hence every single fan-fic ever created revolves around outsmarting the universe. Since everyone knows what the rules are (everyone on SB and SV read Worm), they could rule lawyer around then. It has very little to do with science, and everything to do with the established mechanic you bypass because you min-max, or not obey them at all,

You won't have much success on either if the audience couldn't tell what is the trick is.

 

[Azhurie_Mythephan]

I won't read it unless our MC is a human reincarnated as a female alien in the same universe and she goes back to earth and causes political strife and other insanities.