ooohhh thats a great question actually. admittedly, for a lot of my childhood / teenagehood and early years of adult life i didnt really vibe with scifi as a whole because i felt like everything we had in mainstream media was tired and boring at this pint and way too overdone. to me it was always almost the same motifs and the same storylines just with minimal twists and obviously people will disagree with me. i only liked dystopian novels because i felt those had more interesting subjects but nowadays people are experimenting way more with scifi and i think theres a lot of fun stuff within the genre i really love when the focus is on robots or anything futuristic and machinery, not only because im a little freak and i enjoy the concept of robotfucking, but because theres a lot of untapped potential still. scifi aus in fandoms are also pretty neat and i find them fun, but if i had to read one i will have to say that if its simply oh members go to space or mostly just some space story, you kinda lose me because i need more than just that. that kind of scifi just doesnt interest me. robots, dystopia, other planets and exploring them (think of subnautica here), cyberpunk, apocalyptic scifi scenarios, these things are what interest me mostly. so if you want to go to space in an au, you gotta give me something else as well. exploring the big starry sky and just that and having maybe a war with the aliens or something akin to that is just not for me usually.