Sturgeon's Law

adds new meaning to: It's always in the last place you look



p.s. love your tag line




I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it

Cool. Never heard of it until now.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.- Einstein

I've seen the quote appear in many places before, although the word crud was always replaced by something more colorful.

Friends don't let friends vote for Donald.

something more colorful.

Shit.

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Sh!t.

Yup, that's one of 'em. I've also seen crap a lot.

Lots and lots of crap.

Friends don't let friends vote for Donald.

Interesting - thanks.





"A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff" The Tenth Doctor explains all.

I'm probably going to get flack for this, but I think that when he came up with this, he was genuinely just making excuses for the fact that the science fiction field at the time simply had lower standards than mainstream literature.

While I agree with him that the best 10% of science fiction in the early 1950's could have probably stood toe to toe with the best "literary" fiction, most of the "crud" in mainstream writing was hands down better than what editors in SF circles were letting through.

This all started to change when the New Wave in the late 50's through the 70's brought more mature and daring sensibilities to science fiction. Now I'd say Sturgeon's Law holds true. But not really when he coined the term.

I'm probably going to get flack for this

Not from me.

the science fiction field

I find that Sturgeon's Law is applicable to many other fields, e.g. pop music, Hollywood films, television, modern art, comic books etc.



"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" Winston Churchill (1874-1965)