adamgreenfield, Year before last or so, as I may have mentioned to a few of you heads, I tried my hand at writing a short SF story. It was called “The Inheritance,” and, speaking broadly, it sucked. So I have a real operational sense of just how difficult it is to balance worldbuilding, character, dialogue, and plot in any literature of the fantastic, and my already-significant admiration for those who do it even halfway competently has only grown.