We insist that this stuff we call science fiction is not SCI-FI. For some in the ghetto of Genre this is axiomatic, a secret truth known only to the genre kids, that there is proper science fiction and then there’s that SCI-FI shit.

Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to be so overloaded with meanings it’s just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublethink.

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

Fuck, if only ‘aesthetic idiom’ didn’t sound so damn poncy.

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.

Soylent Brown? It ain’t people, but it comes from them.

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we’re talking now, not factuality but possibility.

–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.