Entertainment value is good, but I must press you to be much more specific. Let me just say a lot of science fiction is “imaginative,” and there’s a lot of science fiction. You don’t have all the time in the world, and there’s plenty of writing that’s imaginative, but will still seem like crap to you—or at least not as good as some other stuff you might be reading. Anyway, what do you mean by “imaginative?”
Entertainment value is good, but I must press you to be much more specific. Let me just say a lot of science fiction is “imaginative,” and there’s a lot of science fiction. You don’t have all the time in the world, and there’s plenty of writing that’s imaginative, but will still seem like crap to you—or at least not as good as some other stuff you might be reading. Anyway, what do you mean by “imaginative?”