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Theodore Sturgeon
(February 26, 1918 - May 8, 1985) American Science-Fiction Writer, Essayist, and poet
- Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud.
- This statement which Sturgeon labeled "Sturgeon's Revelation" has often been simplified into the variant: "Ninety percent of everything is crap", and become known as "Sturgeon's Law".
- I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.
The Revelation: Ninety percent of everything is crud.
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.
Corollary 2: The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
- Venture Science Fiction (March 1958)
- Sturgeon's Law originally was "Nothing is always absolutely so." The other thing was known as "Sturgeon's Revelation".
- Interview with David G Hartwell, The New York Review of Science Fiction (March - April 1989)
- A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
- Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called "other", which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
- From an interview with David Duncan
- If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister?
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