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Re:The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction by zone411 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:31PM (#18900661)
If your tastes require solid character development then sure. But other people might enjoy a book more for its plot or ideas. There are books (especially in science fiction), movies, and TV shows that are widely recognized as very good without a lot of character development.
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Re:The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction by arkh on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:34AM (#18901572)
> But other people might enjoy a book more for its plot or ideas.

I'm on the "don't care about character development" side. But those books are atrociously slow. The whole "3 body problem" could be condensed to maybe 50 pages.

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Re:The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction by beambot on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:21AM (#18901066)
To be "best of all time", it definitely needs all three: ideas, plot, & characters.
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Re:The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction by askmike on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:51AM (#18901163)
Not according to everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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