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* ''[[The Guns of the South]]'' has a scene where Robert E. Lee and his staff survey the heart of Washington D.C. from a nearby hill; in the author's notes, [[Harry Turtledove]] admits that this is impossible, remarking "Sometimes geography has to bend to suit the author's wishes."
** Of course, there's also the fact that he invents a South Carolina town out of the blue for the time-travelers to come from; it could have been [[Handwaved]] if it was just them, but the fact that one of the main characters is also from the town becomes an important plot point.
* [[Stephen King]] did this on purpose in ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series. In the foreword for ''[[The Dark Tower
** The former becomes a plot point later on, when Eddie finds out that Co-op City, where he's from, is in a different part of New York City on Keystone Earth than it is in the version of Earth he's from.
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