Author Topic: What's important for Fantasy/Sci-fi literature to have?
Excellence 
Registered: Jul '02
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Date Posted: 2/11/06 4:36pm Subject: RE: What's important for Fantasy/Sci-fi literature to have?

I agree too. Are there any books where the main character is a son of a gun, killing and hurting whenever the fancy takes?

 

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Registered: Feb '04
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Date Posted: 2/12/06 12:05am Subject: RE: What's important for Fantasy/Sci-fi literature to have?
My opinions.

1: Flawed realistic but ultimately likeable hero. Doesn't necessarily have to be a cliche saintlike or perfect hero.

2: Great villain, should be 3 dimensional and by able to sympathised with, like Thrawn, he was technically a "villain" but you never disliked him or even disagreed with him.

3: Great story, good background interworked in the main story and a realistic but still exotic feel. Also I like it when they take down the "hero bubble" and allow them to be killed, akin to A Song of Ice and Fire when it is well done, not like Star by Star when it was for shock value which basically destroyed years of character/story development. (though I believe GL specified who had to die)

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