Post #2246362
2026-05-08 22:03 UTC
necromancer is brilliant prose first and foremost, and yudkowsky not being able to realise this is so very symptomatic
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@Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-09 00:56
I liked it and I’m not really into sci-fi because I need good prose to read more than the content.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-05-09 02:23
Yeah, all that “style over substance” nonsense is really strange given that those early sci-fi authors were more notable for cleverness and sheer volume of output than for consistent literary quality (and I say this as someone who also read and enjoyed a lot of Asimov and friends growing up). Like, Sturgeon may have coined the “90% of everything is crap” law, but when you write the amount that they did for the pulps you end up with some real gems in that 10%.