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ccc wrote:

One could almost take this as an Insult to the Futurama Fan Community.

Or of SF fans in general.

Gets you to thinking.

So why do Science Fiction adafacandos suffer the slings and arrows while readers of other genres go unpunished? I mean, you never hear anyone say, "There goes one of them weird Tom Clancy fans."

Well, some of us think they *are* pretty weird! ;)

Janet F Caires-Lesgold wrote:

I am a Tom Clancy Fan And it agree they are weird.

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Futurama Fan Community.

slings and arrows while

you never hear anyone

fans."

;)

I'm sure some are, but my point was that the perceived strangeness of spy novel enthusiasts is a non-factor compared to the stereotype that's been built up around the "Sci-Fi fan." And my question was why?

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:25:24 GMT, [email] wrote:

The Sci-Fi stereotype dates back to when it was a pretty new genre. There were few SciFi books before the 1930s and the style began to get popular with early pulp magazines. They featured bug eyed monsters on the cover and the stories were often pretty outlandish. They were generally displayed with comic books rather than other magazines.

Other than a few visionaries, most people believed that humans would never leave the earth. Going to the moon was so preposterous that reading a story about going to the moon was akin to reading fairy tales. And if you're old enough to read, you're too old for fairy tales and other such nonsense.

I read a while back, that the best indictor for who in high school and jr high would go into scientific fields as an adult, was who read SciFi. It was even a stronger correlation than who enjoyed science class. The stereotype of the SciFi fan is similar to the physics or chemistry majors.

Asimov described how he had to hide his magazines from his parents because they did not want him reading SciFi. If you can find a copy of "Before the Golden Age", it may be worth reading. It's a collection of early SciFi short stories, edited and introduced by Asimov.

--Larry

Hey now, some of us could use that address... (j/k)

Sean Rea

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