[Dragaera] Awesome's Razor

Alexx Kay alexx at panix.com
Thu Oct 16 09:22:43 PDT 2008


Decided to codify this, thanks to J C for the name, and Steven Brust for
the Cool Theory of Writing which inspired it:

Awesome's Razor: "Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity --
unless it makes the Story Cooler."

[Which clearly has been frequently applied to Dragaera, what with
seventeen Great Houses, seventeen Great Weapons, at least six different
kinds of magic, and so forth.]

Alexx

Gosh, that takes me back... or forward.
 That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell.
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