I'm starting a campaign called "Sci-Fi Is Okay" to reclaim the word "Sci-Fi" for fannish uses. Fandom's had such an inferiority complex about the term, that somehow we didn't notice when Sci-Fi channel started up two decades ago.
My point is that Sci-Fi is now used by the general populace to refer to that skiffy stuff, and not just to B-Movie fare. And that Sci-Fi has exactly as much (or as little) legitimacy as Science Fiction. (See also Ansible's regular "As others see us" quotes column.)
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Date: 2007-11-22 07:15 am (UTC)My point is that Sci-Fi is now used by the general populace to refer to that skiffy stuff, and not just to B-Movie fare. And that Sci-Fi has exactly as much (or as little) legitimacy as Science Fiction. (See also Ansible's regular "As others see us" quotes column.)