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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3459596" data-attributes="member: 2205">I'm not convinced that that's relevent, though.&nbsp; The Great Gatsby is a novel in which the setting was the everyday world that the author knew and presumably the readers would too, and the more detailed setting description about the particular place and society in which the novel takes place--is described in great detail by Fitzgerald, while the other stuff about the setting is merely inferred because there was no reason to spell it out.In a fantasy or science fiction book, that's not true, and arguably one of the primary drivers of the genre is the setting and how it differs from the everyday world that the readers already know.&nbsp; While his advice about not going overboard on setting detail is noted, and I agree with it (again; looking at the few authors who manage to get published despite not grasping this detail, their books are dreadful to read) it also seems to go a bit too far.&nbsp; One of the consistent details and main attractions of this genre is exploring a setting different from the regular world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 3459596, member: 2205"] I'm not convinced that that's relevent, though. [i]The Great Gatsby[/i] is a novel in which the setting was the everyday world that the author knew and presumably the readers would too, and the more detailed setting description about the particular place and society in which the novel takes place--[b]is[/b] described in great detail by Fitzgerald, while the other stuff about the setting is merely inferred because there was no reason to spell it out. In a fantasy or science fiction book, that's not true, and arguably one of the primary drivers of the genre [b]is[/b] the setting and how it differs from the everyday world that the readers already know. While his advice about not going overboard on setting detail is noted, and I agree with it (again; looking at the few authors who manage to get published despite not grasping this detail, their books are dreadful to read) it also seems to go a bit too far. One of the consistent details and main attractions of this genre is exploring a setting different from the regular world. [/QUOTE]

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