“....NO ONE who is a SERIOUS science fiction reader calls it “sci-fi.” ....”
Don’t agree with this! I’ve read science fiction since I could read roughly 1960. I have seen it as short hand for science fiction since then. I am not offended by it, don’t know anyone who is ! Why would anyone be?
I am tired of the “Age of “I-Am-Offended-by-Everything!” it makes me want the “Age of Aquarius” back! It wasn’t as pompous & tedious and at least the chicks were hot!
I am not offended by anything. I am stating this label has been despised by science fiction fans going back to the Campbell era.
You should know this, as well as who Campbell was.