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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2516069" data-attributes="member: 18832">Oh, yeah, I always forget:I don't care about the setting because I immerse myself in it; I never do. Immersion is completely alien to my reading experience. I care about setting because - especially in SF - character development usually pales miserably compared to that found in non-genre literature. The world, the big picture, is what's most interesting.That's why I admire Tolkien even though I don't and won't read him - it's obvious that he's managed the monumental task of creating a living, breathing, fascinating setting. I think his ability to write either characters or prose is vastly overrated, and I don't actually even like his setting very much (proceeding as it does from premises I find pretty damn unpleasant), but I certainly admire his achievement and the effect it's had on multiple generations of his readers.</blockquote>