skiffy - What does it mean?

Noun

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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 . }}