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Originally Posted by Catlady
The point is that the author made the clones sterile for no reason. Why do it? [...]
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I'm not going to argue the rest (we've been there done that and failed to convince each other), I'm just pointing out that there is no denial of fact.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
I assure you, I am quite happy to read fiction that is uncomfortable, challenging, and disturbing, but the author still needs to make it plausible and provide a semblance of reality.
An author needs to know every detail about the world he creates, whether the specifics end up on the page or not--when he doesn't, it shows. This author doesn't seem to have any idea of how his fictional world actually functions.
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Not telling the reader is not the same thing as not knowing - there is a lot that authors never get around to telling their readers.
All I was trying to say is that some books work for some readers and some don't. This didn't for you, fine, but your insistence that the author doesn't know what he is doing implicitly denigrates the reaction of those that did enjoy the book - and I object to that (since I happen to be one of them).