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Originally Posted by Phogg
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.
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The point of my joke was that the academics were arguing the genre became legitimate coincided with the time that they started reading it, whether the genre is/was always "legitimate" is irrelevant. The same joke may very well apply to Gardner Dozois setting the date of the first eReaders to coinciding with the arrival of his eReader. I think there are plenty of ebook naysayers who have been announcing the arrival of the ebook market shortly after they've broken down and purchased one.