When It's Time To Change Your Reading Habits - Reactor

It's funny, sometimes, to step back and look at your own reading habits. They can seem thoroughly unremarkable-so much so as to be unnoticeable-until something shakes them up. Left to my own devices, I am as likely to get into reading ruts as I am to zoom all over the genre and topic map, trading fantasy for nature writing for literary fiction for an anthology of essays for a memoir about a place or a neighborhood or one moment in time.

This year, though, I've been reading almost exclusively science fiction, which is a trip. It's limiting and eye-opening at once, an experience that is fascinating and weird and sending me down a lot of random meandering paths about what exactly science fiction is, what it does, what it ought to more frequently encompass, and what beautifully porous boundaries it has.