14.44: Realism vs. Rule-of-Cool
b'Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard
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\\nWhere do you draw the line between what seems plausible, and what would be cool? If you pick "plausible," how do you stay cool? If you pick "cool," how do you avoid knocking the readers out of the story? And finally, how might we structure things so that when the time comes, we don\'t need to choose one or the other, because we can have both?
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