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I spent most of January 1990 (I think that was the month) reading the entire run of Astounding/Analog from 1953 to 1985. That was better than quite a lot of the extrapolations therein. Anthologies of the best modernist SF gloss over really quite a lot of the awfulness that was actually published, even in the best magazine ...
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.
Well, yeah. But boy did I have it brought home to me.