...how Pinoys distinctly wrote them...

“…science fiction and fantasy stories as how Pinoys distinctly wrote them…”

I felt at the time – and I still feel today, albeit it’s not that strong of a feeling anymore – that the term got/gets in the way of the writers actually writing truly scifi and/or fantasy texts, to the detriment of the movement. I’m not being purist. The term just gave/gives too much leeway for texts that only merely incidentally have scifi/fantasy (and now any other genre fiction) elements, which isn’t how I see these things ought to be written.

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