Is 90% of everything really crap?

Whenever you talk in speculative fiction circles about quality writing you will inevitably hear someone cite Sturgeon’s Law. Theodore Sturgeon, a science fiction writer, defended science fiction against critics of the genre who said that 90% of science fiction was crap by saying that 90% of everything–film, literature, consumer goods, etc.–was crap. Therefore, pointing out that

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