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Old 11-10-2009, 11:05 AM   #79
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That reminds me, does anybody else feel irked when an author invents a society to illustrate his/her theories about how things should work, then makes the characters constantly point to how well such a society works in the novel as "evidence"? It always makes me wish I could deduct points or something. (edited to add: L. Neil Smith is another good example of this.)
That's what I (and others) call heavy-handed and when it's clearly obvious, it is annoying.
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