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> the signal-to-noise ratio of quality-to-sub-par in certain genres is abhorrent

Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap

re: overnight success, Ted Chiang got a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990) which was his first published work when he was 23. He wasn't writing for extremely long before he was recognized for his talent.

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1990 to 20XX is a long path. I perhaps mis-spoke in the sense that "people didn't invest in his work and bring it to a wide audience by way of a film adaptation until recently" which I intend to mean the concept of 'crossing over.' Recognition outstide of one's genre is an appreciation of talent and craft in ways that might be hard to understand, and I don't mean to be insulting. There are conventions, and rising above them is worth appreciation.

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