How to get hooked to Science Fiction?

For my latest assignment, my professor asked how science fiction can be introduced to people. Science Fiction is not the most popular genre out there and it is hard to like books. A great personal example is my latest experience with the genre. I had to read two of Orson Scott Card's novels, "Ender's Game" and Speaker For The Dead." At first, I was not thrilled to read these books. I am not an avid reader everytime I read a book for class, I half ass all the work by either watching the movie or going on sparknotes. The only way I can "get into" the book is if it relates to me, like the novel "Siddhartha", an intriguing plot, "Chinese Cinderella" or if it has a great start to the novel. Both novels by Scott Card did not relate to me nor did it intrigue me when I first heard of the plot. However, I gave it a shot by reading the 1st chapter before planning to watch the movie, and it blew me away.

Ender's Game starts the novel with descriptions of the main protagonist and the important characters of the novel. Scott Card uses simple and basic imagery that every type of reader, beginner or avid, can understand right away. The story then begins to unravel and everything begins to make sense to the reader.

Unlike most novels, Scott Card's novels are straight to the point. They reveal the plot with unsophisticated diction or vocabulary right at the beginning of the 1st chapter, thus making it easier for non-Science Fiction readers to understand the concept. Most readers who do not like Science Fiction do not read the genre because of the confusing dialogues or that it starts by explaining the middle part of the story which is the present, before going back to what has occurred in the past. Scott Card's novels follow the basic concept of starting from the very beginning until the end which makes it different than other Science Fiction novels.

I believe that the author's real first impression should be shown in the first few paragraphs of the first chapter. This is the perfect time to captivate the reader's mind and get him/her hooked on to the story. When a boring genre like Science Fiction is introduced to a reader, his/her mind starts to wander while reading because of the confusing introduction. Science Fiction can be loved by many if they just start with a bang like the rest of the story instead of a plain introduction.