On 29 Jan 2003 at 16:55, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-St wrote > > I enjoyed your commentary but do you have any answers to the original > question of why? I didn't. > > Rachel Oh sorry...I went off track again, huh? The short answer is - I don't know why females tend towards fantasy and males to SF. In my case, I was raised by wolves...er...my siblings, and they didn't really pay much attention to what I was reading. I was let to run wild through the library, and never noticed I was reading "boy stuff". I just read whatever looked good. My sisters both read lots of romance novels - I tried a few, found them to be repetitious, and went back to what I found interesting. I may have unconsciously avoided fantasy novels back then because the covers reminded me of romance novels. Of my male role models - the only one who read fiction, read SF. So, nature or nurture? M Michele Riccio mr1 at rcosta.com