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** Ed Greenwood, ''the'' author of [[Forgotten Realms]], is a librarian and used to fence. This shows. "[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13186&whichpage=35#297253 Many of Ed's original players either worked in breweries or brewed their own]" - which also shows: you're not going to run into "[[All Beer Is Ale]]" thing in Volo's Guides or other [[sourcebook]]s by Greenwood or anyone who consulted with main developers. His novels and sourcebooks mention breweries and specific beverages fairly often, some got whole lists of local beverages - not just names, but the specifics of how it tastes, what it was made of and (sometimes) who tend to drink this. There are references to (and in [[epigraph]]s quotations from) [[In-Universe]] books and ballads, usually involving at least a hint at their context, if it's not completely obvious from the text and title.

* [[Gregory Benford]] is a physics professor who writes [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|hard science fiction]]. The main character in his book ''[[Cosm]]'' is a physics professor. The book is about her physics research.

 

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