(urth) Sci-Fi

[David Stockhoff]

SF has also been tried on as "speculative fiction." But all it is is an 
alternative---or the original---to "sci-fi," which is a marketing 
creation more or less synonymous with "bad." As Dan'l says.

However, I'm uncertain as to how to use the term without offending, 
since it has a real meaning. Good sf and bad sf share the same 
technologies and ideas, after all. Thus, I should have used quotes when 
referring to commercial sf.



On 12/15/2010 6:33 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Scifi works as a film genre, but SF is more PC as Science Fantasy 
> falls under the umbrella.
>
> Or do I have it all bass ackwards?
>
> ...ryan
>
> On Dec 15, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Matthew Weber <palaeologos at gmail.com 
> <mailto:palaeologos at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> It's more how nobody who actually lives in San Francisco calls it 
>> "Frisco".
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Son of Witz 
>> <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org <mailto:Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Why is Sci-Fi offensive?
>>     Is this like, If you were Straight-Edge playing in a Melvins or
>>     Black Sabbath cover band and you insisted that your genre be
>>     referred to as "Doom-Metal" rather than "Stoner-Rock"?
>>
>>     On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:50 PM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes"
>>     <danldo at gmail.com <mailto:danldo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     > Also, please refrain (note that I am asking politely) from
>>     using the term "sci-fi." Some find it very offensive
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>> The seaman's story is of tempest, the plowman's of his team of bulls; 
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>>     Sextus Propertius (54 B.C.-A.D. 2), Elegies, II, i, 43
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