All About the Characters

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Yesterday I talked about the SFF phenomenon where worlds become characters in their own right.

Yet New Zealand Maori, the indigenous first people of this country, have a whakatauki or saying:

“He aha te mea nui o te ao?
He tangata! He tangata! He tangata!

What is the most important thing in the world?
It is people! It is people! It is people!”

For me, this is very true of reading and writing fiction, although I would substitute “characters” for “people”, as not all great characters in Fan...