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No. I think that if a book is like sci fi or something,it should be read like it is, not differently because what genre it is.
What you said was not the way I was trying to come at. What I meant was maybe Herge just wanted us to really think about the book, like I said earlier.

I just want to clarify that I’m really interested by your idea - I’d not looked at it that way myself, because I thnk of sci-fi as being an area which Hergé was comfortable using, plus some of his books fall into several categories; I’d just not considered that he perhaps had a purpose in this case, and was wondering what you thought it might have been?
714 has always been a book I feel slightly ambivalent about - sometimes I like it more than others; if you can see a new angle in how to read it and get more out of it, it could be helpful!

Yeah, I guess you're right.