Back in the seventies a charismatic preacher talked all the Baptist in our area to for go Halloween.
Instead, they have fall festival for the kids with food and candy but it was like really, really str8.
My coven used to skip that idiocy and go out in the woods and drink heavily and smoke lots of pot.
Ah the memories.
Oh no. I'm saying that it is a simple idea. On the other hand, the execution can be enormously complex.
Many writers have created incredibly complex universes.
Herbert's Dune series spans a galaxy and involves rich and diverse themes ranging from religion to planetology.
Asimov's idea of applying mathematical models to mass human behavior formed the basis of the Foundation series.
How good they are and how much they matter is up to the author.
I'm sure that the searches I ran while writing In the Shadow of the Dragon got me written up.
>>AGM-88 harm performance envelope
>>AGM-84c harpoon flight characteristics
>>shaped charge warheads
>>weaponized yersina pestis
>>BL-4 specifications
Yeah... there's probably a black helicopter orbiting my house.