I think I owe a lot to #SciFiMonth in terms of helping me with my blog post inspiration. I saw Maryam at The Curious SFF Reader do this tag, and I decided to do it myself! Since I’ve been talking a lot about science fiction, I’m gonna do this for fantasy. Here we go!!

One of the things I loved about SciFiMonth last month was discovering new blogs and bloggers to follow!! One of the new bloggers that I found is Louise at Monstrumology! A while ago she posted about her favorite subgenres of science fiction (find it here), which I really enjoyed reading. It made me think about mine, so I decided to make a post discussing the different subgenres of sci-fi. Thanks for the inspiration Louise!

Of course, there are infinite subgenres, and I know I’ll miss some of them. So please don’t come for me if I leave out your favorite subgenre lol. It absolutely wasn’t my intention, I just sadly am not omniscient. I’ll tell you which ones of these are my favorites, and I’ll give you some examples of where you can find each subgenre. Obviously I’ll talk about books, but I’ll include some tv shows, movies, and video games as well! I know we all like different types of media.

Also before I start, another disclaimer. Media is fluid, and can’t be pigeonholed into one neat little box. So a lot of the examples of media that I’ll mention probably fall into a few different subgenres of sci-fi! I tried to choose what I felt was the dominating one. Just as an example, take Star Wars. I’ve categorized it mainly as a space fantasy, due to the Force and the Jedi, but it’s obviously a space opera as well!

Okay, now let’s get into the different subgenres!!

Wait so uhhh it’s December? AKA the end of 2021? HELLO WHAT THE HECK??? Not like I’m still trying to process 2020 over here…

Since time will not SLOW DOWN that means it’s time for a November wrap up! I read some things, watched some things, and posted some things! As usual. Okay enough blabber, let’s get to the details!

So, I admit defeat. I have miserably failed at #SciFiMonth. Sometimes I get in blogging and reading ruts, and turns out the most of November was a rut for me. My philosophy is to not force myself to read or blog during those times, since I don’t want either to feel like a chore. So I spent time playing video games, watching tv, and hanging out with my family. But I wanted to squeeze in one more post before the month ends! I saw that the SciFiMonth Twitter had posted about a post that Laura made about sci-fi novellas, so that sparked my motivation a bit and here I am doing the same! So thank you Laura for the inspo.

Spooky season may be “technically” over but it’s never over in our hearts. If you want to continue the spooky season with your reading, this is the perfect book for it. It’s a slightly creepy fantasy novel that just released today! It’s got witches and fae and creepy monsters! And the author is one of my friends on Instagram, Claudia Cain (find her here: @cainbooks). She asked if people would like to review her book, and I said yes! My friendship with her doesn’t affect my review in any way.