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(fandom slang, usually, derogatory, or, jocular) Low-quality science fiction.

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, year = 1984 , first = David , last = Hartwell , authorlink = David G. Hartwell , title = Age of Wonders , chapter = The Golden Age of Science Fiction is Twelve , isbn = 9780802708083 , page = 13 , passage = The science fiction reader sneers at fake SF, artificially produced film tie-in novels and stories, most SF films, most TV SF. This he calls sci-fi (or "skiffy ")—junk no right-thinking omnivore or chronic should read, watch, or support. }}

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, year = 1989 , date = July , first = Bruce , last = Sterling , authorlink = Bruce Sterling , magazine = SF Eye , issue = 5 , page = 77 , passage = Many of the best new writers seem openly ashamed of their backward Skiffy nationality. }}

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, year = 1993 , first = Peter , last = Nicholls , authorlink = Peter Nicholls , title = , url = http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sci_fi , isbn = 9780312096182 , page = 1079 , passage = Around 1978 the critic Susan Wood and others began pronouncing the term "skiffy'". In 1980s-1990s usage "'''skiffy'''", which sounds friendlier than "sci fi", has perhaps for that reason come to be less condemnatory. '''Skiffy''' is colourful, sometimes entertaining, junk sf: Star Wars is ' skiffy . }}