/lit/ - Literature

Why couldn't it just be about cute alium slugs? Was the inclusion of pozzed human parts about a brave team of diverse female-led astronauts with names like Pajeet Abdul Park Leibowitz who spend their time whining about small NASA budgets really necessary when it only hurts the story. I'm just thinking how much better off the story would've been if every mystery happening to the inhabitants of Dragons Egg wasn't instantly revealed to be a result of mundane human interference.