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Lack of research will often break the artificial realism. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between insufficient research and the author didn't care. Case in point: The Crystal Singer by ...
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System
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2019-12-08T01:34:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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staticsan
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2019-12-08T01:34:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
Lack of research will often break the artificial realism. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between insufficient research and the author didn't care. Case in point: _The Crystal Singer_ by Anne MacAffrey. Central to the universe is the idea of a natural mineral on one planet that responds to "perfect pitch". Except "perfect pitch" is a furphy created by human history. Nature will create octaves, perfect fourths and fifths (and maybe a few more), but the western even tempered scale is entirely artificial. when I learnt about that, it quite broke my enjoyment of the novel.
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System
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2011-05-11T05:18:36Z (over 13 years ago)
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