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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Bgalbrecht was posting *a joke*.
There has been serious academic criticism (in the sense of literary criticism) of sf since at least the 60's.
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I remember the 60s.
The joke works because that attitude proloferated before the late seventies.
Had the bias against the genre not been widely and vehemently held within academia, the joke would not have been conceived, nor would it have found an audience.
There are several old threads floating around about the bias against science fiction in days gone by.