Catch of the Day

A person who has become interested in SF through the media, or because of vague childhood memories, will pick up a book from the vast SF rack and be turned off. He or she will be turned off because the work will almost certainly be crap. . . . Yup, you could read a good SF novel a week each week of the year, no doubt. But if you read an SF novel a week picked at random from the rack, you'd never come back for a second year of such torture.
—Robert J. Sawyer

[From Sawyer's “The Death of Science Fiction” (1991), an old piece given new life by recent citations in Bookmarks and Utne Reader. Via CJA at io9.]