Why Do You Read This Crazy Stuff?

[sleigh]

I'm teaching a Lit class looking at SF & Fantasy. How would you explain to those students (most of whom don't actually seem to read the genre) why you read this weird stuff? What is it about sf&f that you love? (Warning: I'm likely to relay your answers to the class -- anonymously, of course!)

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SF&F

[aerohudson.livejournal.com]

I am drawn to SF&F for one overarching reason. There are more detailed answers for me to be sure, but at the end of the day, its because anything is possible. Any setting, technology, magic system, world, civilization, etc. can be created. There's something exciting about plopping some deeply complex characters in the middle of a completely fabricated world and see what happens.