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Originally Posted by ficbot
And he told me that it's all pretend anyway so it doesn't have to make sense. I say fiction or not, it still has to make sense and if there is some special explanation for something illogical, they need to clue the reader in. So, what do you think...it's all pretend so who cares, or I am right to demand an explanation.
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For me it has to make sense within it's fictional context. The context may be waaay.. on out there, but then the author has to make it work. Sounds like it doesn't work.
I enjoy character driven fiction. That sounds like what you're reading. But at the same time, I like the world in which the story is taking place to be thoughtful and make sense. I can barely tolerate the ones where someone had a great world idea, it all fits together brilliantly but no story in it, they're just using 90% of the book to share their great world. There are a bunch of those too.
Lots of writers
Lots of reasons people become writers. They're not all good writers. We vote with our discretionary spending. heh, I think I wouldn't regret the time I lost reading it as much as I'd regret having encouraged them to write another book or the publisher for having no sense.
Like I've mentioned, that's the thing about sci-fi and fantasy. If it's good writing, most of the stuff written in roughly the last 35 years and some beyond that - could have been written and published last week.