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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.
*** Considering what the author ''did'' to that town in the story its apparent why he didn't use a real one
* [[Stephen King]] did this on purpose in ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series. In the foreword for ''[[The Dark Tower/The Waste Lands|The Dark Tower]]'', he notes that his New York readers will notice that he has taken "certain geographical liberties" with the city. In the later books, when he writers himself into the story, he distorts the geography of Maine (where he lives) because he doesn't want people harassing him in his home.
** 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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