Thursday, March 22, 2007

 

Thought of the Day

Practically all Science Fiction is trash.

Stanislaw Lem

Comments:
I can't speak to the Lem quote, but the usual version of this is Sturgeon's Law (after Theodore Sturgeon):

90% of science fiction is crud. But then 90% of everything is crud.

Frankly, I think Sturgeon was being more generous to "everything" than to "science fiction".
 
I love Lem, who died last year, but I don't actually agree with this quote. I was never a huge fanof Sturgeon either, though.
 
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