"Sci-Fi/Fantasy"

Abstruse Goose: "Dear Book Stores: Please stop putting fantasy and science fiction books into the same category."

Note: this post is about how I disagree with this comic, however funny.

When the TV station formerly known as “Sci-Fi Channel” changed its name to “SyFy”, there was a (small) outcry. Was this because science fiction wasn’t mainstream enough? They had to distance the channel from D&D-playing, Asimov-quoting, Firefly-watching nerds in basements?1 Was it that they wanted to air shows that weren’t science fiction?

That last became the accepted answer: that many of their own shows were non-sci-fi and/or trash TV anyway, and so it didn’t really matter. My mom promptly dubbed the channel “siffy” and the matter…

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