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> someone studying the history of scifi literature would be an academic.
by hyperpallium 7y ago
> someone studying the history of scifi literature
would be an academic.
- coldtea 7y agoNo, could just as well be a sci-fi fan/reader. I certainly did dug back for most genres I follow to earlier history of the genre.
- gerikson 7y agoI enjoy reading older SF too. A lot of SF is responding to older works, expanding or critiquing on their ideas. Without the Foundation series, I doubt there'd be the Culture novels - or at least not in that form.
- mrmuagi 7y agoYou can study things and not be called an academic. For instance if you enter a genre by force, you usually read some sort of chronology of best hits by the decades -- because there are many more books published to discover beyond this year.