Liar out of the gate.
NO ONE who is a SERIOUS science fiction reader calls it “sci-fi.” That is considered an insult to the genre.
IOW: Cool story, bro.
I’m a sci-fi fan and that’s what I call it.
“....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!
Sci-fi is science fiction for short. What’s insulting about it?
I’ve been reading sci-fi since the mid-70s (hard sci-fi, with an actual chance of happening, not the dragons and wizards crap), and I don’t get offended by the term.
Who cares what another person calls it - just enjoy this most interesting of genres, one that has inspired real scientific advances because of how it has inspired so many bright, young kids to go into the sciences.
A phrase from a film that was decidedly not sci-fi comes to mind: “Lighten up, Francis.”