No not at all

No way! As a matter of fact, I (a male) was introduced tp Sci-Fi in my early teens by one of my few girlfriends!! It's a HUGE genre, and you're tastes will change as you grow older. IMO, it's the most intelligent writing a person can spend time with!

No its for all age groups young and old.

Nope, my partner is 25 and he still has his light saber replica on our mantel-piece... please someone come and take it away!

Not at all. My mother, in fact, is quite a fan.

No. Science fiction is a large genre, and some or it is definitely much more adult and thoughtful than would appeal to teenage boys. Try reading Ursula LeGuin, for example - it is a pretty mature teenager who would enjoy that. Of course, there is a sub-genre of low grade space opera which will only appeal to teenage boys, but you get that in any genre. Not all romance is Mills and Boon.

no. I quite enjoy reading them and I'm a teenage girl... theyre much better sometimes than real-life books

Oh, no. From my observations, many scientists themselves love science fiction (if nothing else, they enjoy picking it apart...). Men and women, young and old. I'm a 36 year-old physician/medical researcher, and almost all of the fiction I read is sci-fi. My taste in movies is a little more eclectic, but I still like watching sci-fi movies where things go boom. :-)

Perhaps that's the stereotype. I've seen all ages, and equal number of boys and girls. You need to remember SciFi covers a pretty wide range of subcategories.

Not at all! To think that is to squeeze the genre too tightly! Sci-Fi has been an innovative form of fiction since Verne and Welles wrote in Victorian period. The best sci-fi does not require that a knowledge of science is necessary, what it does is breeds a love of science and quest for knowledge in the reader. I always liked science in school, but reading sci-fi lifted my brain to a place where I understood creativity in the scientific world. What I learned as a kid reading sci-fi has applied to all areas of life: from the visual arts to hobby like things - bird watching (and thinking evolutionary theories). Sci-Fi can be a jump point to ignite the young mind - and the young at heart mind never grows tired of it.

Never heard that. In fact most of the people I know who love it aren't boys, but grown ups and about half of them are women.

No. Before 1969, people travelling to the Moon could only appear in science fiction, and many people used to laugh at it because in could only happen in comic books and movies. "Well-written" science fiction may tell us something about the future.

Look at who is writing it...I'd say- no. Arthur C. Clarke was the best I've read and was in his nineties.

No. Although I was a teenage boy when I discovered SF, it was a female librarian that introduced me. Women have been "movers and shakers" in Science Fiction since the beginings, in fact it could be argued that a woman started SF... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Writer of one of the seminal SF masterpieces "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818). Andre Norton (aka Alice Mary Norton) - Female author of many classics of Sci-Fi including the fabulous "Witch World" series. Leigh Brackett - Award winning author of SF and the writer of the screenplay for "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Anne McCaffery - Multiple award winning author of the "Dragon Riders of Pern" series. Connie Willis - Author of "To Say Nothing of the Dog" which won the Hugo award for Best Novel of 1999. Susanna Clarke - Her first novel, "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" reached #3 on the New York Times Best seller list and won the Best Novel Hugo for 2005. D.C. Fontanna - Co-producer of the original Star Trek TV series and Producer of the Sar Trek Cartoon series as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation. Joanna Russ - Author of "The Female Man" which was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1975. WisCon - A feminist SF Convention that has been running since 1976. A Different Light - A gay/lesbian Bookstore opened up in the seventies that was named after an SF story "A Different Light" by Elizabeth A. Lynn. C.L. Moore - Writer of "Vintage Season" (with husband Henry Kuttner) which was adapted for the screen as "Timescape" (1992) and "Mimsy were the Borogoves" which was made into the film "The Last Mimsy" (2007). Bjo Trimble - A Science Fiction Fan. When she heard that "Star Trek" was being cancelled after the second season, she organized a "Save Star Trek" campaign that resulted in hundreds of thousands of letters to NBC. This made the network reconsider the cancelation and they kept the show on for the third (and final) season. She and her husband also ran a campaign which resulted in NASA naming the first Space Shuttle (an engineering prototype) "Enterprise". She also appeared as a member of the "crew" of the Enterprise in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Gale Ann Hurd - Producer of a many SF classics such as "The Terminator" (1984), "Aliens" (1986), "Alien Nation" (1988), "The Abyss" (1989), "Tremors" (1990), Armageddon (1998) and "The Incredible Hulk" (2008). As well as the two Terminator sequels. Even fictional females factor into SF... Samus, the "hero" of the "Metroid" series of video games is a woman. And on a personal note... One of my wife's favourite books is "The Door Into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlein. Hope this helps.

No, I know some grown up women who love Sci Fi

It's for those that enjoy it regardless of gender or age.

Not at all! I love science fiction. There's a lot of imagination involved and I find most of them have very intriguing and interesting plots to them that you can't get from some other genres.

No, there are many sub genres, so many different types. A lot of science fiction is written by scientists, too, and can be very sophisticated.