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[deleted] t1_isxl42x wrote

Reply to comment by ActonofMAM in Why are there no popular character focused Sci Fi series? by DapperTalk2702

You could just skip all the chapters about the enemy politics, and go skim the Wikipedia page on the French Revolution.

Because that's what the author did, yuk yuk yuk

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ActonofMAM t1_isxlkjb wrote

Weber was at one point a history grad student working toward a PhD. It's his tragic flaw: to him, all the back story stuff IS interesting. He was also absent the day the "show, don't tell" unit was covered in writing class.

But I'll forgive him one heck of a lot for "Ooops," said Shannon Forraker.

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