Jay Kay Klein
courtesy of Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust
Theodore Sturgeon was a terribly important figure in my youth. His science fiction was a ubiquitous part of my reading.
But, I also think his highly critical approach to everything seeped into my pores. He is more famous for “Sturgeon’s Law,” that “Ninety percent of [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.” Which is good. But, as the Wikipedia article on him says, his personal credo was “Ask the next question.” “He represented this credo by the symbol of a Q with an arrow through it, an example of which he wore around his neck and used as part of his signature in the last 15 years of his life.”
Wisdom for the ages…
So, glad to remember him on this ninety-eighth anniversary of his birth.
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