SFF, BSFA, etc.

[watervole]

This is a poll that does actually serve some purpose, and may be useful to a friend of mine.  Note that the questions are deliberately vague.  I didn't want to have a list of items to match against each organisation as that's a leading question.  I want to see how much the average SF reader knows without any prompting.[Poll #1439063][Poll #1439063]

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

SFF has two meaning to me as a librarian, it also means Science Fiction and Fantasy in the library speak I learned. Even though I know the meanings of the abreviations as you mean them I have no idea what they do, please will you tell us.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Yes, I originally answered "yes" on SFF because I was assuming Science Fiction and Fantasy; when I saw from the later questions that watervole was talking about the Science Fiction Foundation I changed the answer to "no", because although I think I've heard of it I wouldn't have remembered it.

I know about the BSFA because, although I was never a member, I used to help produce one of their zines.

[julesjones]

Ditto -- it might be worth changing that question to make it clearer that the correct expansion is *not* "science fiction and fantasy".

[jon-a-five.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought it was Sci Fi & Fantasy too.