How to Choose a Novel

[rich]

I highly recommend Sturgeon's work.  I had noticed that he wrote a few
original star trek episodes along with other greats like harlan
ellison, frederick pohl, robert bloch.

his collected stories are being published--think we're up to volume 9
at this point

rich

On Dec 11, 2007 9:03 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1842639,00.html
>
> How, then, to find the novels that you do have the time to invest in?
> As the science-fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (the original for Kurt
> Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout) observed: "Ninety per cent of science
> fiction is crap. But 90 per cent of everything is crap." How can we
> identify the 10 per cent, or less, of fiction available that is not
> crap?
>
> [...]
>
> Marshall McLuhan, the guru of The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), recommends
> that the browser turn to page 69 of any book and read it. If you like
> that page, buy the book. It works.
>