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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4044731" data-attributes="member: 177">As I said, I cannot really argue that, as I feel it is a matter of taste.  I personally see the effects of the fantastic on something familiar and contemporary as being far more accessible.  We have problems sharing the state of mind with Han Solo, who lives in a world full of aliens and massively powerful technology (and magic), as compared to getting into the head of a soldier that live in our own world, but is then faced with a horde of several million zombies that don't stop when he shoots at them, and continue marching forward, moaning.  Or maybe the guys trapped in a market in Stephen King's The Mist.  These people, their fears, reactions, and strengths are understandable, where Obi Wan Kenobit's aren't.Plus, there's the simple major problem that "preventing obscene errors" will generally also prevent the story from being written.  If the story is about people, one should not prevent it from being written on technical grounds.  If Robert Forward (who writes science fiction that is mostly about the science) screwed up a technical point, I'd be annoyed.  But WWZ is not about the science of zombiedom.</blockquote>