(urth) Sci-Fi

[Jeff Wilson]

> "Sci-Fi" is the sound of two crickets screwing.
>
> More seriously: "Sci-Fi" is a term made up by a publicity hack, in
> analogy with the then-popular "Hi-Fi" for "high fidelity" stereo
> equipment.

Forry Ackerman might have been a publicity hack and a schlockmeister, but
that hardly sets him apart from early fandom, not to mention authordom.
Sci-Fi was and remians a popular self-adpoted term for fans of fantastic
non-book media. It's offense is more in the sense of not-Americans calling
Americans "yanks" or yankees, which aggravates southerners but is proudly
owned by plenty in the north.