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Questions regarding the physical location and time period in which a work of literature takes place.

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Where are the white folks in The Expanse?

Am I anticipating a future revelation about the setting or is this just an uncommented bit of subtle worldbuilding? …
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What does its future setting add to Cold Comfort Farm?

However, setting the action in the future doesn't impact the plot or characters in any particular way, and although Gibbons places many movements and genres in her satirical sights I don't get the impression … What does setting Cold Comfort Farm in the future add to the novel? …
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Do Holmes and Challenger coinhabit the same fictional world?

Doyle published The Lost World well after both killing off and reviving Sherlock Holmes. He wrote about Professor Challenger and Holmes concurrently for about fourteen years, and continued to write Pr …
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Could you actually go around the world in 80 days?

Circumnavigation was nothing new. Speedy circumnavigation was new, but not unheard of, and Around the World wasn't positing anything outlandish or even vaguely sci-fi. It's a story celebrating what th …
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