Ninety Per Cent of Everything: An Introduction

This is a blog I have started just to let me write about stuff I am interested in. I am most definitely a geek, I love films, television, books, plays, all kinds of interesting things, and will probably write mainly about that but also things in my life, politics, science, news, anything really. I have become obsessed with history in recent years and so this will feature as well. 

The name of this blog, Ninety Per Cent of Everything, comes from what is sometimes called Sturgeon's Law or Revelation, made up by the science-fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, the below is a quote from Phillip Klass regarding the 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 SF is crud.

Using the same standards that categorize 90% of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. are crap. In other words, the claim (or fact) that 90% of science fiction is crap is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same trends of quality as all other artforms."

I fundamentally agree with this, I'm a huge sci-fi fan the worst of the worst is brought out to show how it is terrible, and anything good ignore or forced into other categories, but in terms of this blog it is that yes, for a lot of stuff, 90% of it is terrible but the remaining 10% is more than enough and can be spectactular. While I may talk about the 90% I will try to focus on the 10%.

R