I love comedy, drama, and some romance. While I really enjoyed some comedians books (like Dave Berry, Bill Cosby et al.) they are more exaggerated non-fiction than fiction. Not something I would like to write or have the talent to. But mixing up comedy, drama and romance seems good for a story. Keep the reader entertained. Another piece of literature I like are story of morals as in like Aesop's Fables. Driving home a point or an idea is very attractive.
Two genres in particular are attractive to me, science-fiction and murder-mystery. I guess because the ideas of exploration and investigation are almost synonymous, and curiosity is a great hook.
Of course great stories of Star Trek, Space 1999, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica (old and new), Star Gate, Star Wars are great influences. They provide a range of story telling styles form the old single plots to the modern multi-plot stories.
Needless to say my favorite genre is actually sci-fi. So that's what I'm currently writing in. But mixing up stuff seems like fun too.
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