Tyburn
Terrorastrian
It's widely accepted that infodumping is not a terrific idea - great walls of text explaining something in great (usually usually technical) detail.
What I'd like to ask is "Can small infodumps be acceptable?".
For context, I've just realised that there's a part in the early chapters of my MS where Space Captain Flight receives a distress call from a star system 40 light years away. Though I've not explained it, I do have the whole mechanism worked out - the Matrix - in fact it forms the basis for a later part in the series. I can explain the Matrix in a sentence or two, but is that an acceptable infodump? Is there any such thing as an 'acceptable infodump'?
What are your views?
What I'd like to ask is "Can small infodumps be acceptable?".
For context, I've just realised that there's a part in the early chapters of my MS where Space Captain Flight receives a distress call from a star system 40 light years away. Though I've not explained it, I do have the whole mechanism worked out - the Matrix - in fact it forms the basis for a later part in the series. I can explain the Matrix in a sentence or two, but is that an acceptable infodump? Is there any such thing as an 'acceptable infodump'?
What are your views?