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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
One suspects that Gardner Dozois owns a Kindle. I know that there's a joke in the SF community that many academic studies of SF like to claim that SF became "legitimate" around the time the author started reading SF. I'm sure the same blinders apply in other areas as well.
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I submit an alternative hypothesis:
Science fiction has been legitimate since Jules Verne.
Academics in general looked like gibbering asses regarding the genre until a few of them realized how they must appear to the public in the wake of George Lucas' tremendous success with Star Wars. Those few undertook an effort to reform the outlook of their profession to remove themselves from the ridicule they had become aware of.