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Originally Posted by hildea
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?
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No, but they tend to be used differently. Sci-fi is general public shorthand to mean 'a story with lasers or spaceships in it' and covers everything from 2001 to the Marvel movies and even things that wouldn't be considered science fiction in any way. There's a reason that everything from the Battlestar Galactica reboot to Dinocroc vs. Supergator are shown on the Sci-Fi channel (now the SyFy channel).
SF tends to be used more by people that grew up with Asimov/Clark/Heinlein paperbacks and attend science fiction conventions.
And speculative fiction mostly seems like a relic of new wave science fiction from the late sixties/seventies.
At least that is how it used to be. Usage has likely drifted.
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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.)
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You don't see why scientific background is important to a genre called science fiction?
