Ah, true. The rapidly shifting POV stories sometimes are very confusing. Offhand it seems to me that our auctors have tended more to a single viewpoint in a chapter -- and being pretty good about letting us know when they are shifting POV.
I certainly have found some books in the SF field that have taken the initial mysteries and puzzlements a bit far, sometimes without later resolutions. For a while there seemed to be a vogue of having a first chapter or perhaps prologue that was completely off-the-wall, purple prose and fireworks, followed by a very prosaic second chapter. Those were difficult to read. But I digress, as usual.
Balancing the mysteries and wonders with enough recognizable "here we are" so that they produce a sense of wonder and not just vertigo is the art of SF, perhaps?
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Date: 2009-02-04 12:07 am (UTC)I certainly have found some books in the SF field that have taken the initial mysteries and puzzlements a bit far, sometimes without later resolutions. For a while there seemed to be a vogue of having a first chapter or perhaps prologue that was completely off-the-wall, purple prose and fireworks, followed by a very prosaic second chapter. Those were difficult to read. But I digress, as usual.
Balancing the mysteries and wonders with enough recognizable "here we are" so that they produce a sense of wonder and not just vertigo is the art of SF, perhaps?