<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Hi, Doc_Grey. She sounds like me! My father is a big science fiction (film and book) fan and he definitely passed his sci-fi genes to me. I remember going with my father to a drive-in movie to watch "Beneath the Planet of the Apes".....my sister and mother politely declined to go with him, but I loved it. I was only a baby when the original Star Trek was on TV, but when reruns began airing....my father and I would plant ourselves in front of the TV to watch. He would go to the used book store and bring back stacks of science fiction books ( and westerns, which I never got into...Zane Grey and such) and I started reading sci fi when I was in junior high.Now, my son is showing that he has inherited the "sci fi gene" too. For Christmas, he got the entire "Orphanage" series by Robert Buettner. He loved the Ender's series. He loves science fiction movies also. He makes fun of the original Star Trek (those.........dramatic........pauses.......by Shatner), but every time I get out a TOS DVD, he stops what he is doing and watches it with me. Sometimes it's hard for fathers and daughters to find things to talk about. But I can always get my father to talk with me about the latest book he's read or about what sci fi movie he's watched lately (didn't like the recent Day the Earth Stood Still at all.....did like Wall-E, tho). Wishing you and your daughter many happy sci fi memories! <br />Posted by starsinmyeyes44</DIV></p><p>Well, her #1 love is anime and Japanese culture which I've been a good sport learning about to keep those rare common interests open (we usually watch Ghost in the Shell reruns together)-you're right dads and daughters are different breeds somtimes. </p><p>And I laughed my butt off when Shatner looked out the window and was faced with the rather cheesy looking 'monster' in <em>Terror at 20,000 Feet...</em>she guessed it was coming and still jumped!<br /></p>