Yeah, I am obviously preaching to the choir, as it were. :-)

The thing is, based on Bloom's theory of real life trumping fiction, one might expect more realistic stories to produce more "and what next?" responses, since they would be more likely to 'fool' people into treating them as real. Yet in my experience of fandom, I would say that the more fantastic elements a story has (whether actual fantasy/sci-fi elements, or simply elements foreign to the average person's life, such as spies, mysteries, foreign settings, violence, etc.), the more likely people are to explore it further. I would be curious to see what he'd make of that apparent contradiction of his theory.