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Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Fri Jan 21 10:16:36 EST 2000


In article <388521FB.BCC45087 at callware.com>,
Ivan Van Laningham  <ivanlan at callware.com> wrote:
>
>Years ago, Susan Sontag discovered Science Fiction.  Being a big name
>with a large reputation, she thought it incumbent upon her to call
>attention to the small, overlooked ghetto of SF.  That would have been
>fine, but when she wrote articles about SF, she failed to do even the
>minimal research needed to find out what fans of SF called it.  So she
>made up a name, and referred to it as "Sci-Fi" in her essays.

Like Brett Porter, I thought that Forrey Ackerman laid claim to the
coinage; got a source?
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