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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
It has nothing to do with being a pretentious snob. "SciFi" was the term used by outsiders for years to belittle the literature we enjoyed.
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Strange-the terms *I* remember used to belittle the stories I enjoyed 50 years ago were 'trash', 'escapist', and 'science fiction'. I don't recall hearing SciFi used at all until the 80's, when science fiction started becoming popular. (That's when all us long-time readers started turning into pretentious snobs because we'd recognized the worth of thinking about the future years before.)