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I'm starting to prioritise things in my mind, and the monthly SF meet-up and conventions are currently not scoring too highly. I need to get out of fandom for a bit for 2 reasons.
1. My sanity. I tend to start something and immerse myself to the point that one day I wake up, and it's taken over everything else, and I start to resent it. Fandom is getting that way. I need to walk away for a bit.
2. I've realised what I knew all along. It's not SF that I love. It's fantasy, horror and comics. That's not to say that I don't like SF, just that it's not my preffered genre, and I think I've been kidding myself by trudging through massive space operas when I could have been reading some Moorcock, Eddings, Barker or even Burroughs or Vonnegut.
This probably sounds a bit crap and over-analytical. After all it's only books, but, I do tend to obsess slightly, and end up spending a fortune on stuff that ultimately I'm a bit meh about.
So that's it. SF groups, only if I'm in the mood, not every month as I currently do. Conventions? If it's in Glasgow, maybe. Elsewhere, highly unlikely.
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