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A story can't be 'wrong' as long as the grammar is used correctly. Sure it can, have a murder mystery where Joe kills bob in the library with the revolver. On

A story can't be 'wrong' as long as the grammar is used correctly. Sure it can, have a murder mystery where Joe kills bob in the library with the revolver. Only problem is Joe was in Monte Carlo, and bob was Austin at the time of the murder, and there is no twist remote tele-presence robot. Stories must have internal logical consistency for them to work well. Something like Oceans 11 wouldn't have worked if there had been concurrency issues.

rwmj 14y ago
"Unreliable narrator" stories can be "wrong" in the way you describe. cf. American Psycho. There are plenty of stories where unrealistic things happen, eg. JP Donleavy's scene transitions where people melt from one place to another (which are stylistic devices, not sci-fi). This is a whole rabbit-hole (pun intended ...)