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The limit of character driven S/F is - do you like the character(s)?
If you don't, then you miss everything else the author was saying.
Really good S/F is multi layered. Character development is only one layer.
A Literary Fiction reading friend, had to read Dune. His comment after was that it was "just an adventure story" and not worth his time. When I pointed out some of the other layers of the novel, such as a study of ecology, or predestination vs. free will, OPEC power politics, among others, all I got was. "gee, I didn't notice that".
He only got out of it the surface story.
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