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Ninety-two pages, ~20% in, it’s readily apparent that the authors employ writing software templates. The tells are legion (pun intended); same words, same phrasing, same storylines and plot lines, same flaws and fails, all present. The repetitive loops of the programming not subtle or hidden… it’s overt. The patterns are prevalent within not solely these authors, but the scifi genre as a whole. It’s why they all read the same because they are the same.
Some might consider it a ‘bug’ when it’s a’feature’ of the business model put in place over the past few years. Indie authors are forced into exile or co-opted to join publishing groups. The lack of basic writing skill sets, imagination, and originality all a rarity, with re-boots of a re-boot of someone else’s film, TV show or book, now the norm. The worst are authors & publishers re-booting their own prior content into either endless sequels or knockoffs of the prior content into a ‘different’ series.
The patterns once seen by a reader cannot be unseen.
Going forward only going to Note and/or Highlight the more egregious examples as plenty pointed out prior.
