Almost Good
Apr. 18th, 2005 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollI won't be specific but I just finished a book that was interesting enough to keep me reading while being saddled with enough unnecessary flaws to make me want to beat my head against a wall.
Two issues that leap to mind. No, three, but two are related:
If your story is set 9000 years in the future, the names should probably not all sound like they came from the Philadephia phone book circa 1970, particularly if there have been a number of dark ages in between (although then we get into the issue of "Have any dark ages been universal?").
In a related matter, stuff probably happened between 2000 AD and 11000 AD. It's a bit odd when a lot of (or even any) references to the 20th century turn up in a book like this.
One unlikely astronomical event is OK. Two, particularly if the second one appears to be physically impossible, is probably one too many.
Two issues that leap to mind. No, three, but two are related:
If your story is set 9000 years in the future, the names should probably not all sound like they came from the Philadephia phone book circa 1970, particularly if there have been a number of dark ages in between (although then we get into the issue of "Have any dark ages been universal?").
In a related matter, stuff probably happened between 2000 AD and 11000 AD. It's a bit odd when a lot of (or even any) references to the 20th century turn up in a book like this.
One unlikely astronomical event is OK. Two, particularly if the second one appears to be physically impossible, is probably one too many.
