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Originally Posted by Cyclops
I'm normally of the opinion that sci-fi is the stuff you see on TV with its bad science and whooshy sounds in space, whereas SF is found in books, best written by those with a scientific background.
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I've always seen "science fiction", "sci-fi", and "SF" as synonyms. Is it usual to see "sci-fi" as a different subgenre than "SF" in English?
I don't see scientific background as important in SF, though it's probably important in the subgenre called "hard SF" when I was a teenager. (Not sure if that term is much used now.)