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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 8927572" data-attributes="member: 27897"><p>I was born in the early '60s. SciFi and Fantasy have never really been considered "serious literature" despite the existence of Mary Shelly and Jules Verne, as lauded authors. The general public has always looked down their noses at such things. The contemporaneousness (Is that a word?) of the original Star Trek and the Apollo Programme were key in sparking my interest in SciFi. Fantasy followed shortly afterwards. They were definitely something that I kept to myself, however, as they were looked down upon. If I read "The Time Machine" then my parents were pleased, because I was reading classic literature. If I read "First Lensman" then I was wasting my time. Hypocrisy, but they didn't know that. It all went to developing language skills that they celebrated.</p><p></p><p>When it came to RPGs.... Let's just say that I came to them in the early days of The Satanic Panic. I went to high school and college in the region just to the south of the town that became infamous because of one of the "D&D murder cases." The so-called expert in D&D, Thomas Radecki, testified at the trial in 1985. D&D was banned in that region and we were afraid that it would be banned where I lived, also. Even before that, in the late '70s, we had to call our high school RPG club the "War Games Club" in order to have it sanctioned by the school, because RPGs were "dangerous."</p><p></p><p>Even today I would say that it's only the mainstream Fantasy and SciFi that's popular. The stuff that's most easy to consume. I don't think it's necessarily that SciFi and Fantasy have become popular, but rather that popular media is taking the form of them. Semantics, perhaps, but a distinction none the less.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 8927572, member: 27897"] I was born in the early '60s. SciFi and Fantasy have never really been considered "serious literature" despite the existence of Mary Shelly and Jules Verne, as lauded authors. The general public has always looked down their noses at such things. The contemporaneousness (Is that a word?) of the original Star Trek and the Apollo Programme were key in sparking my interest in SciFi. Fantasy followed shortly afterwards. They were definitely something that I kept to myself, however, as they were looked down upon. If I read "The Time Machine" then my parents were pleased, because I was reading classic literature. If I read "First Lensman" then I was wasting my time. Hypocrisy, but they didn't know that. It all went to developing language skills that they celebrated. When it came to RPGs.... Let's just say that I came to them in the early days of The Satanic Panic. I went to high school and college in the region just to the south of the town that became infamous because of one of the "D&D murder cases." The so-called expert in D&D, Thomas Radecki, testified at the trial in 1985. D&D was banned in that region and we were afraid that it would be banned where I lived, also. Even before that, in the late '70s, we had to call our high school RPG club the "War Games Club" in order to have it sanctioned by the school, because RPGs were "dangerous." Even today I would say that it's only the mainstream Fantasy and SciFi that's popular. The stuff that's most easy to consume. I don't think it's necessarily that SciFi and Fantasy have become popular, but rather that popular media is taking the form of them. Semantics, perhaps, but a distinction none the less. [/QUOTE]
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