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But on the world we left and the world we come to, in those few minutes a hundred years are passing. The paradox is a lovely one to try to handle in the terms of lives and relationships and feelings of the interstellar travelers...But it messes up communications something awful...If we can't communicate, there can't really be much interstellar trad or diplomacy or any other relationship. And fiction's mostly about relationships, human or other.

But it's true a great deal of contemporary fiction isn't a fiction of character. The end of the century isn't an age of individuality as the Elizabethan and the Victorian ages were. Our stories, realistic or otherwise, view their unreliable narrators, dissolving points of view, multiple perceptions and perspectives, often don't have depth of character as their central value. Science fiction, with its tremendous freedom...

#QuotsyApr21 @TK-421
Prompt: Poetic