That vampire yakuza thing is persistent isn't it. For me, while a book that hangs on 'cool idea, lets see what happens to a world in which it appears' is fine, I'm perfectly alright with stories built around unoriginal tropes that do something interesting in some other fashion. Now whether you can get anyone to notice the other interesting thing because they fixated on the unoriginal trope is another thing, but that's what word of mouth and reviewers are for.
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Date: 2010-03-26 03:58 am (UTC)That vampire yakuza thing is persistent isn't it. For me, while a book that hangs on 'cool idea, lets see what happens to a world in which it appears' is fine, I'm perfectly alright with stories built around unoriginal tropes that do something interesting in some other fashion. Now whether you can get anyone to notice the other interesting thing because they fixated on the unoriginal trope is another thing, but that's what word of mouth and reviewers are for.