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3. "RE: Writing process question"
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   Actually, I think I can boil it down to this: The needs of the plot outweigh the needs of the hardcore sci fi realist. It's okay to have a certain amount of handwaving technological factors because not handwaving them interferes with the story. There is a limit to how much of this an author can do, of course--I would argue the end of Mass Effect 3 is a fine example of what damage too much handwaving can cause--but UF, in all the time I've been reading it, has never strayed out of a good comfort zone between plot and physics.


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