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{{quote|''90% of everything is crud.''}}
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* 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.'' (Note: It is clear this doesn't ''necessarily'' follow from the Revelation- sci fi has minor advantages and disadvantages compared to other genres, and differing amounts of literature compared to other genres. If a thousand write sci fi, but a hundred thousand write real world, do the maths.)
* Crawford's Corollary: ''Should you ever find that less than 90% seem to be crap, your standard is set too low and should be adjusted.''
* Critic's Corollary: ''90% of people lack the taste necessary to distinguish between crud and non-crud.''
** Critic's Second Corollary: ''90% of people will criticize 90% of what they see regardless of their ability to distinguish crud from non-crud.''
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** TV Tropes' Laconic Corollary: ''Ninety percent of [[Laconic]] articles are crud.''
* [[The Theorem of Narrow Interests]]: ''The more constrained the thing you're looking for, the fewer good examples exist.''
** Also: ''If a video game has user-created content, a large amount of it will be based on [[Video Game Perversity Potential|male or female genitalia]] or "[[
* [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Ruri]]'s Law:'' "The vast majority of people are idiots".'' or, in other words, ''You're probably crud.''
* [[w:Isaac Bonewits|Bonewits]]' Law: ''"[W]hen it comes to stuff written about magic, 99.9% of everything is crap."'' (From his book ''Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic'').
Sturgeon's Law is particularly obvious when the barriers to entry—the whims of publishers—are removed. Self-publishing, especially in the virtually cost-free environment of the Internet, makes the cruddy 90% ''very'' visible to the public; it no longer languishes in an aspiring writer's desk drawer. This often leads to the false impression that [[Fanfic]] attracts poor writers; the fact is that the poor writers have ''always'' been out there, but until recently, their poor writing had few mass outlets. As one writer put it, "flipping through [[Fanfiction.net]] is like flipping through hell with an occasional slice of the heavenly cheesecake thrown in."
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