Sturgeon's law
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Sturgeon's law states, "Ninety percent of everything is crap". The adage was coined by American science fiction author and critic Theodore Sturgeon while defending the merits of the genre. Sturgeon ob
The cover of the September 1957 issue of Venture Science Fiction where Sturgeon first wrote, "ninety-percent of everything is crud."
James E. Gunn
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James Edwin Gunn was an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work as an editor of anthologies includes the six-volume Road to Science Fiction series. He won the Hugo
Sturgeon's law
…by William Tenn. On Labor Day weekend in 1953, Sturgeon repeated the concept during a talk at the World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia. James Gunn attended the event and recalled Sturgeon's remarks decades later in The New York Review of Science Fiction: "When people talk about the mystery…
Gunn in 2005
Gunn's novelette "Powder Keg" was the cover story for the April 1958 issue of If