The_Uncredible_Hallq comments on Lawrence Watt-Evans's Fiction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: The_Uncredible_Hallq 17 July 2008 08:36:03PM 0 points [-]

Caledonian--You forget that in the first encounter with the Borg, they were saved by a shameless deus ex, in which an established character (Q) was made to do openly what writers normally do by contrivance. Don't know whether it's good writing, but it's not as bad as some of the "three thousand, seven hundred and twenty to one!" successes that appear in fiction.