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From: shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: The bright side of the USA-USSR arms race (SPOILER)
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Date: 26 Dec 87 21:44:45 GMT
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In article <931@cod.NOSC.MIL> rupp@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes:
>In article <1987Dec23.162159.16826@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>   >>By the way, most sf fans consider the form "sci-fi" a pejorative.
>   >>(I make this remark only for purposes of informing.)
>
>I wonder if it's a generational thing. I first started reading science
>fiction about 1956 or 1957.  "sf" is the term that was used in fandom
>and in the magazines.  "Sci-fi" was, and is, used by journalists who,
>perhaps, don't know a faster-than-light drive from third gear.  For

I don't know if this is generational or not.  I'm of a younger generation
(or used to be).  I didn't mind the term "Sci-Fi" in the past, but I get
more and more annoyed with it as time goes on.  I suspect that this is because
it is used by the bubble-head generation of TV reporters.  They tend to 
shove all SF, Fantasy, and anything they don't understand in to the "sci-fi"
section of their minds.

These are the people who start their newscasts with "President Reagan's Space
Defense Inititive, 'Star Wars' as it is commonly known..."  They decided what
to call it for the "simple people", then shove it down everybody's throats.

That is why I now hate the term "Sci-Fi".
 

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