http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:11:23 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/13/062056.php#comment-57754 The Hugos really aren't about sci-fi (pronounced "skiffy") but about speculative fiction, which is a much larger genre, encompassing hard sf, fantasy, alternate history, comix, basically whatever you want to point to which uses "what if?" as a premise. As an example, William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" - SF or not? As for "Firefly" you really should rent or buy the DVD set, it is really good space opera (which was derived from the slang for westerns - horse opera) with horses, cows, hoowers, and spaceships. 57754@blogcritics.org Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:11:23 EDT