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Yeah, space opera. Some of it is good. But most of it isn't.
All of us are born with an imagination. Then other people, adults and kids both, tell us to stop imagining things.
Took me over 30 years to stop listening to those who would stifle other people's imaginations.
Then I started writing poetry. I started off very badly, I haven't posted any of it here. Some friends encouraged me, and I started writing poems worth reading.
I'm sure many people I grew up with, wouldn't like writing. Some of the peopel in that small town out west told me I shouldn't go to high school, others said university was a bad idea.
So, I imagined what it would be like going to university. I didn't get it right, but I did start using my imagination.
Or as one co-worker puts it these days 'thinking outside the box'.
As for sci-fi, it is indeed an insult. I mostly see it when print media, or the local television, covers a sf convention I am attending.
As for English professors. Some I took classes to, didn't like students usig their imaginations, some preferred imagination use.
As for 'writing what we know'... if we all did that, no sf or fantasy stories would be written.
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