Yup. It does a good job of breaking up the action by having multiple parallel storylines going at the same time. This helps it avoid feeling like “all gas, no brakes” that many fiction authors tend to fall into.
And the “sci” in sci-fi is typically kept fairly light. Lots of authors (looking at you, Crichton) get bogged down in trying to explain all of the minutiae of how their science works. It’s like they’re afraid that if they fail to explain the science, their world-building will all fall apart. But this means they can be a slog to get through, because the author spends entire chapters explaining background features, instead of focusing on the action. The Bobiverse managed to avoid this, and only touches on the science side when it’s relevant.
Yup. It does a good job of breaking up the action by having multiple parallel storylines going at the same time. This helps it avoid feeling like “all gas, no brakes” that many fiction authors tend to fall into.
And the “sci” in sci-fi is typically kept fairly light. Lots of authors (looking at you, Crichton) get bogged down in trying to explain all of the minutiae of how their science works. It’s like they’re afraid that if they fail to explain the science, their world-building will all fall apart. But this means they can be a slog to get through, because the author spends entire chapters explaining background features, instead of focusing on the action. The Bobiverse managed to avoid this, and only touches on the science side when it’s relevant.