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>chad stacks have all the spines facing inward so you need to play jenga every time you want to browse your collection
Kino.
The Starscribe Special, IMO, is the sinking feeling of having a great premise and setting gradually squandered by a clear lack of planning. The pacing starts out strong, and the characters are set on an interesting path towards some distant objective. The story continues to develop at a good pace over the first few chapters, slowly increasing in scope. Later, despite some hiccups and retcons, you hold out hope that the characters will make some satisfying progress towards their goal. The plot continues to sprawl, always developing but never nearing a resolution. Finally, once Starscribe loses interest i.e. once the patron stops feeding him money to continue, the story has its throat slashed and rapidly bleeds out over the course of ~3k words of a pitiful excuse of a "conclusion".