Folks, I'm going to ask that we all step back for a day or two, think about everything that's been said here, and come back once our emotions have cooled.
In essence, Mark has just given the Fenspace Writers' Collective its first "bad review." And I, for one, think that's a good thing - as long as we take it as constructive criticism.
How we can take it as constructive criticism without changing the setting even more than the retconning-away of the Boskone War would ... is currently beyond me. But I'm sure it can be done.
(And much of that's been said can be applied, to a lesser or greater degree, to both the Whole Fenspace Catalog and our recent "magic is loose in the world" idea.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
In essence, Mark has just given the Fenspace Writers' Collective its first "bad review." And I, for one, think that's a good thing - as long as we take it as constructive criticism.
How we can take it as constructive criticism without changing the setting even more than the retconning-away of the Boskone War would ... is currently beyond me. But I'm sure it can be done.
(And much of that's been said can be applied, to a lesser or greater degree, to both the Whole Fenspace Catalog and our recent "magic is loose in the world" idea.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012