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Shecky:
--- Quote from: neurovore on May 14, 2008, 03:25:20 PM ---If you are bothering to do that, you're way ahead of an awful lot of published fantasy writers.
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Sad but true - it's one of the reasons I tend to shy away from fantasy. It's so often SCREAMINGLY intellectually inconsistent.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Suilan on May 14, 2008, 08:14:39 AM ---If the definition of a science fiction novel is that it must not contradict science, then I believe I've never read one in my life :D
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Shame you picked "novel" there, because there's a whole pile of Asimov short stories that don't have anything in contradicting science, particularly the more mystery-like ones. I'm sure if I were at home and looking at my bookshelves I could come up with some counterexamples here.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Blacque Jacque Shellacque on May 14, 2008, 04:15:40 PM ---Sad but true - it's one of the reasons I tend to shy away from fantasy. It's so often SCREAMINGLY intellectually inconsistent.
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And occasionally there will be one that really thinks through the economics, or what magical healing does to infant mortality and how that affects population, and basically nobody ever seems to notice.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: neurovore on May 14, 2008, 06:01:06 PM ---And occasionally there will be one that really thinks through the economics, or what magical healing does to infant mortality and how that affects population, and basically nobody ever seems to notice.
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It's what I call the Good Politician Syndrome - they're so few and far between that people don't believe in them when they DO appear. ;)
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