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@lorenschmidt totally! and I definitely like the latter, and it's definitely "better" but also there's a part of me that just wants to read pages and pages of exposition and a scifi author going off on how cool the space elevators they've made up are and how they work
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@lorenschmidt which I guess I would also connect to my love of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, which are genuinely well written, but also have bursting through them a desire to tell you about this cool thing she's currently into, all this detectiving just an excuse to talk about bell ringing
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@lorenschmidt or Delicious in Dungeon, also genuinely well written and has good characters and so on but also has pages where she's like "okay! let's talk about the flows within this fantasy dungeon ecology!" and y'know, I'm there for it.