Why no sci-fi??

I was starved for sci-fi and used the search function, only to realize that the twelve most recent submissions in this genre are all written by me, reaching all the way back to September 2022, making me the only sci-fi writer for the past two years... Depressing. Come on people, I can't be the only author who enjoys writing off-worldly stuff, right?!

Gloup

I'm thinking that you're so good at it that other authors hesitate to make their own offerings

Hi Glagla,

I have read a couple of your pieces and enjoyed them.

From a personal writing point of view, I think you have to have a certain mind set to write in this genera well. You do, I certainly do not. I have tried and just deleted them. Even my supportive hubby said they were pants and I should take them down. I did, but he meant the stories, but he spanked me anyway

I would try reading some. ore work if it ever gets uploaded, but sorry, I will not be submitting my garbage. I stick to stories I can relate to and have experienced in some form or another.

Hope you pop a few more items through please Glagla.

Outside of what I do here, I do occasionally dabble in SF, although mostly fantasy. The ideas I have spanking fiction by and large just don’t fit into the SFF box.

It's a challenge. I'll have a go.

Geoffrey Stirling.

The problem I got is that SF should mean a more sophisticated society and to be honest I don't think that a spanking society is more advanced. In 2020 I found it had to believe that in nearly half the US-states corporal punishment it still considered a form of education while barbaric Germany banned it from schools in 1970. Our smart politicians tried to completely outlaw it in 1980 but were too dumb to make a waterproof law. In 1990 they tried to fix it but it still took more years before they implemented the EU law and fixed it.

Yes, Gloup, why don't you write us some more Sci-Fi?! They're so entertaining as is most of your work.

In all seriousness, I'd love to, but haven't thought of a good enough scenario yet to start writing. Plus, for the past year or so I've struggled to finish anything

Hasn’t Neil done a few sci-fi stories on here?

Many thanks for the kind praise offered, but I'm afraid that flattery won't get you out of this one now when you've stuck your neck out, so please do write me a sci-fi, I have my eyes on you

Great! I'm eagerly awaiting when you smash my unbroken line of sci-fi submissions


It doesn't have to be. I grew up with Bladerunner, Gor, Alien, Death Race, John Carter, Mad Max, Rollerball and Planet of the Apes, so to me the future is rather dysfunctional and without legal certainty. When you write you don't have to consider current morals or laws. It can be quite liberating and open up for scenarios which wouldn't work in our time and age.


That was very kind of you. I do happen to have some more sci-fi piled up, to be released in time.

Due to excessive work load during the past year, just like you I've also had severe problems getting any writing done. This summer however, just as I was supposed to go on vacation, I was unexpectedly hospitalized for a month. Deadly bored and high on morphine, I wrote more than 40 stories to pass time, so I have a pile almost ready for release. On the downside, the experience reading them might be Gloup-on-drugs and I'm not certain how that one will go down. I'll issue a general health warning when they are loaded.

Interesting thread so far and an intriguing question. As regular readers of my stories know, I dabble in multiple genres. However, I'm not a big fan of mainstream SF, so I find that particular genre difficult. To date, I believe my only story is Space Madness. I am currently working on a dystopian novella; however, I don't really consider that SF. Best wishes to all.