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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 28 December 2011 06:37:21PM *  4 points [-]

An ideal author can write ideal stories. But I found that scariness sucks story energy from the other parts (both for me and the reader). A long story can cope with it, but a short story risks becoming a SCARY utopia rather than a scary UTOPIA.

More details in my post at http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/920/eutopia_is_scary_for_the_author/