"the apocryphal HDAS III" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Strictly speaking, it would appear that Fred Galvin located the 1957
version (at least, Jeff Prucher gives him credit):
http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/328


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> Garson O'Toole
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> Subject: Re: "the apocryphal HDAS III"
>
> I apologize for the multiple posts but I do not wish to inadvertently
> omit a great find by a list member. A wider search shows that list
> Jeff Prucher located an earlier 1957 version of Sturgeon's Law aka
> Sturgeon's Revelation.  The cite appears in Brave New Words: the
> Oxford dictionary of Science Fiction. The core phrase is the same
> "ninety-percent of everything is crud."
>
> 1957 T. Sturgeon Venture SF Mag. Sept. 78
>
>
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