One could posit a world in which humans as "stuck in the middle" between the fast-reproducing species, and the very-long-lived species, having neither extreme advantage and trying to leverage a blend of the two to avoid being marginalized or even competed right out of existence.
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2020-10-19, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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Re: Solving the "elf superiority problem"
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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