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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dimwhit" data-source="post: 1217147" data-attributes="member: 2576">Actually, I think mmu1 has a point. If an author is going to create technologies and base them on our perceived physics, then odd discrepancies like that need to be explained using the new physics of that world. If there's a legitimate reason for such an odd mixture of technologies to exist in a world, it needs to be explained. Otherwise, some readers are going to use the laws and physics of their own physical world and conclude that it's just not plausible. But then, I suppose that's where you get two different kinds of readers. I think all readers will look at a story, even fantasy and scifi, through their own reality. One type of reader, however, will accept a new or skewed reality (common in fantasy/scifi) without question as to the mechanics behind that reality. The second type of reader would like to know why the physical world of a story operates differently than our own. Failure to do so would be considered a serious flaw. I tend to lean toward the second type of reader. I don't like vastly different realities without an explanation. For example, I'm always bugged by stories that contain a world with a green sky. How did that happen? The only way I can think of to have a green sky is to have a completely different color spectrum than we have in our world. Doesn't seem possible, even for fantasy. Dang, I'm rambling, and I don't think I even made sense. Is it Friday yet?</blockquote>

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