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If the tech or magic isn't new to the setting, how has it been integrated? Are there traditions or taboos associated with it? Social/class considerations? Black or gray market operations? How has it changed over time? What kinds of literal or figurative arms races have occurred?

Valerie Valdes on Twitter: &Quot;Random Writing Tip: When You're Inventing New Technology or Magic for Your Story, Dig a Little Deeper to Consider the Full Ramifications on Your World. How Will People Really Use It? Modify It? Hoard It? Abuse It? Mone

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In practical terms, Szabo felt the library should begin offering classes and voter registration and literacy programs and story times and speaker series and homeless outreach and business services and computer access and movie rentals and e-book loans and a nice gift shop. Also, books.

The Library Book

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Napoleon was a serious student of history, especially of great commanders, claiming that “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

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