(April 10, 2016 at 4:01 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: In my first novel, I put my characters in Los Angeles. I'd hate to think that 2000 years from now people will be standing in the administration building at Cal State thinking, "Oh wow, we're standing right where Chloe met Ted. And there really is a King Hall here. There really is a Greyhound station on Los Angeles Street, so Rhonda's book MUST be true."
That's not what fiction writers mean when they say suspend disbelief.
Agreed.
A better metaphor, though, would be if you wrote a book about London in the 1600s, and people claimed that because there really is a Tower of London, etc, that it's really true... even though due to shoddy or unavailable research materials, you actually got a lot of stuff wrong (like putting a suburb that wasn't founded until the 1800s in the story because you didn't know it wasn't always there), and yet people claim your book is the definitive guide to 17th century England.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
