Best selling science fiction books. What clicks and what doesn't!

 

Best selling science fiction books. What clicks and what doesn't!

I have read a few #scifibooks. But I remember a select few of them very well, as if I had read them yesterday. Their story revolves in my mind with a freshness that self renews itself whenever I think of #scifi as a genre, with no particular scifi book in mind. 

I call it complete possession of the scifi reader’s imagination by a scifi concept that is so diverse in its influence that it finds its way into every imagination of the scifi reader. With strong notes of influence that self emerge whenever this scifi reader’s mind travels on the trail of science fiction. 

But, why is it so in case of a few scifi books? 

There may not be a single explanation to understand this phenomenon. But as humans we do come across similar experiences, where we feel or see something and then it lives with us forever. Impacting us deeply! 

If you are wondering what I am referring to, let me offer you some insight. Not by means of a note from a counsellor, but an example from a fellow human being who too feels influenced by the same phenomenon that only lucky scifi readers get to experience via their interaction with the best #scifibooks.

Coming back to the example.

During our school days everything and everyone appears to be carefree, and happily so. And as we all assume destiny dictated roles in our advanced lives, we sometimes do think of a few special moments experienced by us during our school lives. It can be a special school teacher we are reminded of often, it can be a prank that we had played on our friends, or anything else, rather a lot of other things. However, even after many decades we feel we are living these moments with a renewed freshness. 

Why?

We feel so for one reason alone. “Innocent indulgences of childhood!” Where everyone has a right to be naughty because no one is cunning or beguiling. It is straightforwardness of character that flows from everyone in equal volume, but with different projections and varying inclinations. But overall everyone is doing what everyone else is busy doing as well. Being involved in innocent indulgences and at times being a bit naughty too. 

It highlights one fact about this school life. “Originality of feelings gets translated into the originality of actions. And when human actions are original, with native and innocent intentions, humans tend to interact with them with a mental steadfastness that is anchored in the core of each person’s character. 

In order to associate with the native originality of a person’s mind one has to invoke his/her own native and original feelings. Only then can both enjoy the physical and mental indulgences and in adulthood it is these flashes of native originality that we are reminded of often.

Children seem to achieve this naturally because their mind at this stage of development is naughty or a bit mischievous, but it still has not learned to be cunning and  appallingly vicious. 

Human mind appears to acquire these traits after school life, when we become part of life’s real schemes and plots. And to survive them, we as grown up men and women have to learn and invent counter schemes and plots. And when this happens, we learn to trick our own nature into believing that this is a part of our native personality, whereas in reality it is not so. 

But as children, since we are not dealing with real life and its cunning schemes, our personalities remain etched in the universe of innocent indulgences, where we can be nothing more than being naughty. And as such these moments of our lives stay with us forever and tend to have long lasting influences on our personalities. Because they are a part of our native and original personalities where nothing is filled with malice and cunning.

And what does this have to do with the best selling #scifibooks, when it comes to their long lasting impact on us? 

There is a lot in common, actually there is so much in common that when you know it via this article you will be left amazed. I assure you of this!

So, allow me to amaze you please.

By now we know the following:

• Innocent indulgences stay with us longer

• Originality and native feelings and experiences stay with us much longer

And that is the main point. Here is how.

The authors of the best selling scifi books are aware of both these facts. And they use them in their scifi books, and when they do it with perfection, they create scifi books that stay with us forever, and like I mentioned above, “Their stories revolve in our minds with a freshness that self renews itself whenever we think of scifi as a genre.” And we as scifi readers feel a naughty compulsiveness to read these scifi book again and again. Almost like beautiful and naughty childhood memories that we are reminded of as grown up men and women.

Still wondering why?

Well I thought you might have already guessed it. Nevermind, let me elaborate on it further.

Because these best selling scifi books naturally awaken the childhood like originality and innocence within us, and we are bound to react with one reaction alone, to get drawn into their lure that creates for us, now grown up men and women, an ecosystem where we can once again, without feeling ashamed or belittled, practise our childhood like innocent indulgences.

With one major difference, which actually is a good development.

We indulge innocently in scientific imagination, where we are led everywhere by the scifi author’s imagination, while offering us many avenues to bond our own imagination with it and feel the wonder of science fiction. With no need to be cunning, but every need to be naughty scifi readers. And it is our right to be rightly and righteously naughty!

Yes, that is our right. Because if a scifi book proposes a scientific thought that talks of aging slowly in few regions of the universe. Our innocent indulgence would let us entertain the thought. And without feeling the need to be an impulsive scifi reader. Instead we act naughty. We deliberately quieten the opposing arguments arising from our IQ on this proposed scifi concept; and then we race our imagination alongside this concept till the end. Because our childhood like naughtiness encourages us to believe in what we believed in as children. That anything is possible! And by the time we have concluded reading the best selling scifi book, we realise that indeed anything is possible. 

It proves that these best selling scifi books naturally awaken the childhood like originality and innocence within us. Had it not been so, we would have quit reading the scifi book the moment we came across an opposing scientific concept being promoted by the scifi author via his/her scifi book.

And we achieve this only via our innocent indulgence and naughtiness. Had we been cunning, we would first have been possessed by envy and then the need to challenge the thought. As a result of this we would have become victims of our own cunning. Because we would have been deprived of discovering a scifi book that had the potential to stay with us forever. And whenever needed resurrect the childhood like innocent indulgences and naughtiness within us. 

So, by now it is clear that Innocent indulgences stay with us longer;

as do originality and native feelings and experiences. And the best selling #scifibooks make use of these innocent indulgences and originality to keep the scifi readers completely engrossed in their original plot of #scifi wonder.

And when it comes to scifi originality and innocent indulgences, they exist in different forms.

For example. It can exist in the form of original scientific thought that is groundbreaking, and when a true scifi reader comes across such a scifi plot. his/her childhood naughtiness is auto revived and he/she interacts with the best selling scifi book with a lot of enthusiasm.

At times the author of the best selling scifi book purposefully adds a new and scientifically almost impossible angle to the original idea. But it is done with an immaculate sensibility, where the scifi author only deviates slightly from the original thought to add a strong element of wonder to it. So that the scifi reader feels what he/she felt as a child, “anything is possible.” By the time the scifi reader is interacting with the scifi book as a child who has unlocked his/her side of innocent indulgences, the scifi author gradually moves back to the original track of thought, because the scifi author knows that soon the scifi reader’s IQ of an adult will raise questions, which would then develop into doubts around this new angle that was seeded by the scifi author to build excitement for the scifi readers. And if that happens the scifi reader’s naughtiness will transform into cunningness. And at that stage the #scifi author’s book will stand no chance to hold its ground of logic in the flood of counter arguments initiated by the scifi reader.

But this shifting of tracks has to be done with such precision that the scifi reader does not realise it. That is why the scifi author deviates from the original thought very slightly. This deviation is insignificant when it comes to its instant impact on the overall logic of the scientific idea proposed by the scifi book, but significant enough to offer the scifi reader, moments of scifi excitement. By the time this scifi reader feels swarmed by this scifi excitement, the scifi author leads him/her back to the original track of scientific concept.

Therefore it is true and right to confess that the authors of the best selling scifi books know when and how to bring the childhood like naughtiness alive in all scifi readers. And then they keep kindling it with well timed bursts of scifi excitement. Allowing the scifi reader to fully utilise his/her innocent indulgences and be a bit naughty too.

It is only this fact that is responsible for making a scifi book the best selling scifi book.

There is one such scifi book, that offers the scifi readers every opportunity to invoke their innocent indulgences and feel that childhood like naughtiness. It is titled, They Loved in 2075.

It is a romance scifi, set in 2075. When self aware machines are redefining human societies, and as a result of increasing human interaction with these self aware machines, humans are losing their ability to emote and feel like humans. In the midst of this emotional crisis, a boy falls in love with a beautiful girl, who is unable to emote like a human.

Will she ever understand the boy’s love for her? Will self aware machines take over the planet? Will all humans lose their native emotions eventually? Will a feeling like love even exist in 2075?

You see, this science fiction, They Loved in 2075, offers many opportunities to bring out that childhood like imagination in every scifi reader. And turn the #scifi readers into men and women who love experiencing childhood like innocent indulgences of the human mind. The only bridge that keeps adult men and women connected with their originality and their native side of their personalities- That beautiful and wonder packed side of human personalities.

To know what becomes of the boy, the girl, their love, humans, and the world in 2075, please discover the scifi book titled, They Loved in 2075.

Dedicated to the child in all of us. Because if the child is alive within us even when we are very old, we shall never feel deprived of youthful flushes of joy and enjoyment!