I’m starting to enjoy io9. Much of what they produce is about movies and the like so not very interesting to me, but every so often I get a glimpse of how that large group of people who consider themselves science fiction fans, but are not members of “fandom” think. Today’s little gem goes like this:

Here’s another one of the amazing “facts” you’ll get from Discover: apparently TRUE science fiction fans don’t like the epithet “scifi” and prefer the abbreviation “SF” (Fact #6). Um, yeah. There are like ten guys with giant beards who have never read anything written past 1960 who care about that distinction. The rest of us just like good writing, and we don’t care if it’s labeled scifi or SF or science fiction or speculative whoozit or floop or Jimmy Jam Jam. Seriously, people, we’re not an oppressed group; we don’t need a special, PC label for our textual preferences, OK?

Beautiful.

More ranting about a rather silly article in Discover magazine here.