Comments on: David Weber’s Honor Harrington Series http://thesoapvox.com/2006/03/12/david-webers-honor-harrington-series/ All the stuff that goes through Vox's mind, including SF/Fantasy books, open source software, linux, security, and many other geeky pursuits. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Vox http://thesoapvox.com/2006/03/12/david-webers-honor-harrington-series/#comment-6 Vox Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:31:27 +0000 http://thesoapvox.com/2006/03/12/david-webers-honor-harrington-series/#comment-6 When the term "sci-fi" was coined back in the mid 50's, Asimov upon hearing it for the first time said that "sci-fi is what you call crap that has nothing of science in it and it should only be applied to made-for-TV crap about monsters from Mars" (I'm paraphrasing, can't find the quote..it's in one of his many many anthologies, in the comentaries he writes to introduce stories}. He always insisted that the good stuff be called Science Fiction or SF, and crap can be called sci-fi...and since I'm a big Asimov fan, I do tend to prefer SF over sci-fi...but I'm not all that sanguine about it...I'll tell you once or twice, but I won't crucify you for using it...at least not the first couple of times ;) When the term “sci-fi” was coined back in the mid 50’s, Asimov upon hearing it for the first time said that “sci-fi is what you call crap that has nothing of science in it and it should only be applied to made-for-TV crap about monsters from Mars” (I’m paraphrasing, can’t find the quote..it’s in one of his many many anthologies, in the comentaries he writes to introduce stories}. He always insisted that the good stuff be called Science Fiction or SF, and crap can be called sci-fi…and since I’m a big Asimov fan, I do tend to prefer SF over sci-fi…but I’m not all that sanguine about it…I’ll tell you once or twice, but I won’t crucify you for using it…at least not the first couple of times ;)

]]> By: HandySolo http://thesoapvox.com/2006/03/12/david-webers-honor-harrington-series/#comment-5 HandySolo Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:20:26 +0000 http://thesoapvox.com/2006/03/12/david-webers-honor-harrington-series/#comment-5 Hmm... I think I read some of these once, many moons ago. I'll have to look at maybe picking some up. Got a cite on the Asimov thing? You've dinged me twice now about that... While I've read pretty much every fictional thing he ever wrote, I confess I have no clue what you're so excited about! :-p Hmm… I think I read some of these once, many moons ago. I’ll have to look at maybe picking some up.

Got a cite on the Asimov thing? You’ve dinged me twice now about that… While I’ve read pretty much every fictional thing he ever wrote, I confess I have no clue what you’re so excited about! :-p

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