No biggie It's not the fantasy element, it's that the characters don't speak like Americans, especially lower income Americans (in the US setting), he had his info on Mormon religious hierarchy wrong, and his RL settings weren't accurate. Stuff like that shakes me right out of the story. Just my personal biasBeen years since I read Weaveworld. My question is how can it be badly researched if it's a fantasy novel, one that is made up by the author? I'm not criticizing you, just curious about your opinion. I thought it was a pretty good book, but I also don't read alot of fantasy or sci-fi either.