The question still remains, though - do most readers care about all the specifics?
Our readers care about the beer and potato chip diet.
The challenge is to write it so that the reader cares.
But halfway through the book, a reader doesn't care anymore.
We think readers still care a lot about the comics.
Our readers don't care about respectability one way or the other.
The fact that it had actually happened was interesting to him, but the typical reader didn't care at all.
"And if the reader doesn't care anymore about those distinctions, well then I think it's a shame."
I want the reader to even kind of get behind and care about the colony that is under siege.
He also knows his readers could not care less.