Post originally by Rob at 2003-09-12 07:59:17
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"How do people cross it? How do they find any of the settlements when the settlements are constantly moving? Why is anyone living in such a freakish place in the first place? Those aren't minutiae that can just be glossed over, they're very important questions that have a huge bearing on that area of the world. Do travellers cross it, or do they have to go around it? Does that isolate some parts of the world from the more populous areas? Is it an army-proof political border?"

You're telling me you can't figure out answers for those on your own? I wouldn't mind getting some authorial intent, but you really have missed the point if you think all thse questions are accidentally left unanswered. I see all of those questions as grist for the imagination-mill. And furthermore, we are reassured that we will not later be told that our answers are wrong. That's great.

Would I have welcomed more detail? Sure. But can I get really excited about what I have and see the alternate opportunity it presents me? Absolutely.

This is really like buying a sports car and complaining that you don't like cars that don't have big back seats.