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From: jsc@sun.uucp (James Carrington)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.books
Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law
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Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 02:57:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 23 02:57:40 1985
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Summary: 

In article <11311@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>There have been references to Theodore Sturgeon recently, and also a few
>citations of the famous "Sturgeon's Law". I would like to trace down the
>actual origin and exact text of this famous principle.

I hate to post something I can't substantiate right at the moment, but I believe
he said it at a world science fiction convention, while on some panel or another
of sf authors. I recall reading an anecdote about it in one of I. Asimov's 
HUGO winners anthologies.


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