when I was a teen and very into AD&D I got very mad at dungeons where inadequate thought had been given to caloric flows like, how is there a dragon down on level 8 of the dungeon? that dude's probably gotta eat a cow a day, so he needs access to farmland,,,https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1430156362441396227 …
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Walter Jon Williams has made extremely complex financial transactions a major plot point in like 4 of the 7 books of his I've read. Yeah, it does double duty of very quickly illuminating a lot about how the society functions and justifying why a character has so much funding.
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One book, the character is an outlaw trying to hide his ill-gotten gains from the all-seeing eye so he funnels it through thousands of individual transactions designed for maximum confusion/evasion. In another, one guy's complex scam literally sparks an interstellar race war.
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3/ yes, WJW rocks ; he's on my list of "woefully under-famous SF authors"https://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1430176241706020868 …
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Which of your novels would you recommend first to someone who loves that stuff?
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When critiquing one of my novels,
@KarlKGallagher once asked, "But where does the food come from???" So I added a paragraph to explain it. Or maybe explain it away. Sheesh. Logistics guys. Don't get me started.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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