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* [[David Drake]]'s ''[[RCN]]'' has Cinnabar use the imperial system while their enemies the Alliance (''not'' [[The Alliance]]) use metric -- but [[Word of God|Drake]] says that's just [[Translation Convention]] because he believes that after more than a thousand years, humanity will have scrapped both systems in favor of something else.
* As seen in the page quote, in British speculative fiction using the metric system in the future is usually a hint of dystopia. Oddly this is a much more common use than in American fiction, perhaps because the metric system has never been (in parts) imposed by government in America.
* Thoroughly averted by [[Larry Niven]]. His [[
* ''[[Uglies]]'' uses this, to the extent that another system of measurement isn't even mentioned.
* [[Warhammer 40000]] novels use metric (but the game mechanics use imperial).
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