Stungeon's Law

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I share your passion! I read many of Jack Vance's books when younger and you've now made me realise how many of his books I've overlooked.

I've recently begun to pass on some of my vintage SF/Fantasy collection to specialist bookshops so that others may have the opportunity to enjoy it. Hard to part with my core collection though!

I have so much vintage SF and Fantasy still to read, but so little time left to read it! :(

Jack Vance and Asimov, especially the Foundation series, share my top favs.
And P-J Farmers'sort-of porn.
 
I have to say I'm quite enjoying The Hydrogen Sonata
Yes, written by Iain M. Banks - a fellow Scotsman who has been taken from all of us Earthlings far too soon.

I also loved his non-SF books (written as plain old Iain Banks), although The Wasp Factory was described by The Irish Times as "a work of unparalleled depravity."!
 

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Yes, written by Iain M. Banks - a fellow Scotsman who has been taken from all of us Earthlings far too soon.

I also loved his non-SF books (written as plain old Iain Banks), although The Wasp Factory was described by The Irish Times as "a work of unparalleled depravity."!

Its news to me that Iain had a non SF body of work too - thanks for educating me! I'll have to check them out.
 
I'm tempted to start reading "The Three-Body Problem" by Ken Liu.

My problem is every time I start reading Sci-Fi, I end up staying up way late in the night reading and have a difficult time putting it down to go to sleep. This becomes a problem when I have to go to work.
 
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Yes it's Sturgeon's Law...

Sturgeon's law - Wikipedia

Interesting how many 90/10 rules we have, the one I am most familiar with is that getting the last 10% of anything requires 90% of the effort expended. (project management being one example)

Outside of the lounge I think far more than 90% of the threads here have some merit if not universal interest.

Such negativity! :D
Isn’t it interesting that in 1890 only 80% of everything was crap? Perhaps Sturgeon himself should accept more responsibility for the claimed increase?
 
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