I've always thought that "sci-fi" sounds bad to some people
because it sounds like "hi-fi".
Now, in Finnish "sci-fi" is actually pronounced "skiffy",
which version I've seen some English-speaking people
use.
As for Noir Science Fiction, there are noirish elements in
some of Harry Harrison's novels (for example the first
Stainless Steel Rat book). Other writers who I feel have
written noirish stuff include Robert Sheckley and Algis
Budrys. There might be more in the paperback SF of the
fifties and sixties. (If no one has yet answered this, A
Plague of Pythons is by Frederik Pohl.)
Leigh Brackett might be more hardboiled than noir - she's
certainly a very good writer of tough action conducted by
lone, cynical men.
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
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