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Posted 2012-March-21, 02:33

View Postkenberg, on 2012-March-20, 14:54, said:

I was unaware that this had been elevated to a Revelation. I first heard it as:

I've generally heard it called Sturgeon's Law. Is a relevation higher than a law?

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Posted 2012-March-21, 18:50

Sturgeon's Revelation is what Sturgeon himself called it. Sturgeon's Law is something else, although people frequently call the Revelation "Sturgeon's Law".

I first heard about it in an article written by another SF author, whose name escapes me. Among other things, he said Sturgeon was a gentleman of the old school, who used the word "crud" in his formulation of the Revelation, "crap" being a word he would not use in public. :ph34r:
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