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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
Mark Twain said it best: "Of course real life is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
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I agree with Twain to a degree. But I would add that it depends on the literary style a bit as well. Surrealism makes sense and does not make sense but it has it's inner logic (think Kafka). Or think of the book called One hundred years of solitude. The flow of time is totally twisted in that one. And that is the thing that makes the book special.
Science fiction should make sense probably a bit more than your average story in a sense that it should be SCIENTIFICALLY accurate and thought through. Perhaps they have underground factories and slaves doing all the stuff? Think Wells.
--Michael