Well, all I can say is that background parity is a rarity.
So *many* things that folks just have to go "look how cool I am, I'm representing!"
It has a much greater effect if it's "just there". Check out Heinlein's comments (in Grumbles From the Grave) about the editor for his juveniles. Especially apt are the objections to bits in The Star Beast.
She objected to "kids divorcing parents" to which Heinlein replied along the lines of "we have that *now*, we just call it something else".
I think she also objected to "coercion in the choice of careers" being grounds for it. :-)
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Date: 2024-02-21 09:04 pm (UTC)So *many* things that folks just have to go "look how cool I am, I'm representing!"
It has a much greater effect if it's "just there". Check out Heinlein's comments (in Grumbles From the Grave) about the editor for his juveniles. Especially apt are the objections to bits in The Star Beast.
She objected to "kids divorcing parents" to which Heinlein replied along the lines of "we have that *now*, we just call it something else".
I think she also objected to "coercion in the choice of careers" being grounds for it. :-)