<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">According to Harlan Ellison, anything he dislikes is dangerous. Of course, most of what he likes is also dangerous<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com" target="_blank">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 04/14/2014 12:39 PM, leam hall wrote:<br>
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I wasn't too clueless and called it SciFi. Long before SyFy was a channel. <br>
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I'm just going back in history when this was the popular opinion:<br>
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According to iconic (and contentious) sci-fi author Harlan Ellison, the term sci-fi is a "debasement" -- and a dangerous one -- of a proud genre that is properly referred to as science fiction or SF.<br>
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