That explains it!

Have just learnt Sturgeon's Revelation that states, more or less, that it's not surprising there's so much bad SF out there because "Ninety percent of everything is crud."*

Not that I'd be shallow enough to dismiss a whole genre on the basis of one dodgy book with a naked blue girl on the cover!**

But I wish I'd thought of that first.


*Thanks to Laura for posting it at sarsparilla.

**No, really. In fact, I jumped back on the horse and read a 1960s Russian SF book I didn't understand either (of which, more another day.)