[sbierwagen]

>To me, it made <cool scifi thing> about as fun to read about as... tedious government bureaucracy.

This is also the problem with Charles Stross' Nightmare Stacks. The concept was kinda funny in 2004, but by book number 10 it just gets tedious. The reader cries out, What is the point of all this, and Stross answers with a shrug.

[hnmullany]

I always think of this part from Wonderboys:

https://youtu.be/BrVl1hWrWBs?si=UPgOdjd6ujlJ1UKP&t=95