{"id":739,"date":"2013-02-19T17:56:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T22:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=739"},"modified":"2013-02-19T17:56:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T22:56:58","slug":"on-fictional-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"On Fictional Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-743\" alt=\"atat\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/atat.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"187\" \/>I&#8217;m currently on the third book of a science fiction trilogy that has started to drag a bit for me, because we&#8217;re in a section involving military battles and things keep happening that make no damn sense.\u00a0 It is sci-fi, and not hard scie-fi, so to an extent one can get away with a hand wave and a muttering about &#8220;advanced technology&#8221;, but at some point internal consistency breaks down and there just seems to be no reason for the various antagonists in the war to do what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>So I was interested to read this breakdown of the various<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/02\/battle-of-hoth\/\"> tactical and strategic errors in the Battle of Hoth<\/a>.\u00a0 I admit I&#8217;d never thought of these problems before (Han Solo bragging about making the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs had always bugged me, since that is a unit of distance, but the Empire Strikes Back always seemed a bit more internally consistent).\u00a0 But all authors should take this as a cautionary tale &#8211; if the Empire Strikes Back can be picked apart, what can&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, also &#8211; if you are riding a tauntaun and find yourself in danger of freezing, don&#8217;t cut it open and crawl inside.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5931217\/science-proves-luke-skywalker-should-have-died-in-the-tauntauns-belly\">It just won&#8217;t work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently on the third book of a science fiction trilogy that has started to drag a bit for me, because we&#8217;re in a section involving military battles and things keep happening that make no damn sense.\u00a0 It is sci-fi, and not hard scie-fi, so to an extent one can get away with a hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}