Comment by namaria

Comment by namaria 10 months ago

4 replies

Has the overbearing tone of painfully detailed world building with very little narrative power I've come to expect from Chiang. Guy has cool ideas but really likes to describe how cool his ideas are in detriment of telling a compelling story.

teekert 10 months ago

Hmm, to me the worlds draw me in as soon as my eyes hit the paper, I love the world building, the detailed description, it make the whole reading experience so much richer for me.

It's like Peter F Hamilton, his stories are insane in length but you almost feel like you experienced the book, and what it is like to live in that world.

  • namaria 10 months ago

    I find hard to dive into contrived realities. A good story with hints of a larger complicated world in which it happens is in my opinion much more enjoyable than painstakingly describing everything.

    • teekert 10 months ago

      I do have that with fantasy, but with scifi I always feel like “Yeah if we progress enough this could become reality one day…”

      • namaria 10 months ago

        That's immersion and an author in love with their ideas tends to ruin that for me. It starts to feel like smarts porn.