Sturgeon's

Sturgeon's Law is no respecter of genre boundaries.

MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1) 2009

He's a real treasure in the genre and anytime anyone says sf is not literary, they can throw Sturgeon's name at them.

MIND MELD: Members of Book View Cafe Reveal Their Favorite Books 2009

Sturgeon's Sylva Wycke, though loving and benevolent, is none-the-less the literary ancestor of Asimov's Solarians (in his Elijah Bailey Robot novels) or the Tessier-Ashpools in the Villa Straylight space station in William Gibson's Neuromancer who are so rich and so far above the rules and challenges of the rest of humanity that they have in effect become alien.

MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2) 2009

A lot of Sturgeon's work should be taught in high school classes.

MIND MELD: Members of Book View Cafe Reveal Their Favorite Books 2009

I'm saying that Sturgeon's Law holds, and I've gotten the feeling it's largely the fault of this pernicious myth that short fiction is some kind of path to novelist fame and fortune.

Salute Your Shorts yuki_onna 2010

Theodore Sturgeon's "When You Care, When You Love", about a young woman who uses her inexhaustible wealth to find any way possible to save her dying husband, is another one that really sticks out.

MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2) 2009

Theodore Sturgeon's solution to the Battle of the Sexes: "I can't buy Sturgeon's premise that [sexism] is the primary source of all the ills in the human world, or the suggestion that if that problem could be eliminated, utopia would be the natural result."

April 2009 2009

Because it sounds about right for the stuff I worry about too, and now I am wondering if it is something like Sturgeon's Law, or the programming thing where 90% of the project takes 90% of the time and the remaining 10% takes another 90% of the time ....

mrissa: "Rissy, 90% of the things you worry about never come to pass."--Grandpa mrissa 2010

There are, unfortunately, a lot of genuinely terrible SF books out there (Sturgeon's Law).

What's the Worst Book You've Ever Read? 2009

As with all aspects of human endeavor, both follow Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud).

An Interview with David Kopaska-Merkel marshallpayne1 2010