Sentence:  Stephen Pickering's observations regarding the dilemma of the <WSD>sercon</WSD> fan confronted with an undercurrent of unorganized anti-intellectualism in APA fan-circles is a particularly brilliant, valid, and wholly justifiable resentment of the human condition which threatens to obfuscate and perhaps destroy the cogent and indispensible contributions to fandom (i.e., fandom as an expostulation of sf as a literary genre) which its <WSD>sercon</WSD> intellectuals have made. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Having a serious intellectual approach to science fiction; literary; scholarly; studious.