That "causal way" is one of my deep pleasures reading short stories. The format's constraints discourage authors from spelling everything out. Assumes reader is

That "causal way" is one of my deep pleasures reading short stories. The format's constraints discourage authors from spelling everything out. Assumes reader is smart, leaves more to the imagination. The opposite of Andy Weir's The Martian, which is the best technical manual I've ever read about potatoes.