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1st September 2009, 01:04 AM
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| Fool  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Australia, New South Wales
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| Re: Science Fiction v Fantasy: Race to 100 I fear the same Teresa - although, note that I didn't use a question mark but an exclamation mark, surely implying that my 'question' was rhetorical, that is unanswerable. Stay back, sci-fi fans! |
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1st September 2009, 01:22 AM
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| Goblin Princess  | Re: Science Fiction v Fantasy: Race to 100 I say SF instead of sci-fi (a term that still makes me shudder), but I prefer to think of myself as a purist, not a geek. Fortunately, Fantasy has so far managed not to pick up such a loathsome abbreviation yet. I suppose with its ever-growing popularity it will, though. |
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1st September 2009, 01:37 AM
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| Goblin Princess | Re: Science Fiction v Fantasy: Race to 100 Nope, that was Forrest J Ackerman who invented the term. He was an avid reader of SF and a prominent fan, but the term never caught on with other fans, and for years was used dismissively by other people who wanted to sound like they knew what they were talking about. Even though younger fans use it in quite a different sense now, it still rankles with most old-timers, savoring of a certain youthful disrespect for the traditions of the genre. |
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1st September 2009, 01:43 AM
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2nd September 2009, 08:44 PM
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| Holy Knight  Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Tennessee
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| Re: Science Fiction v Fantasy: Race to 100 I will in the future attempt to eschew the use of the aforementioned abbreviation for the use of SF. I usually just don't think about it. I do grind my teeth at NBCs new SYFY for the SYFY Channel. As for Fantasy you're probably right. I date back to when finding fantasy in the stacks was the problem, now it's finding good fantasy. |
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