Re: RARA-AVIS: Sturgeon's "Cellmate"

From: foxbrick ( foxbrick@yahoo.com)
Date: 11 Jun 2008


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Vorzimmer" <jvorzimmer@...> wrote:
>
> > PS. Sturgeon's law: what a bunch of crud. If 90 % percent of
everything
> > was
> > crap, we wouldn't have this list or then there's thousands of
cruddy
> > hardboiled and noir novels being published each year.
>
> There are. Maybe not pure crap, but mediocre at best.

That's pretty much what Sturgeon meant--from the ridiculously awful to the utterly humdrum mediocrity.

Todd Mason



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