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Originally Posted by HarryT
It depends whether the inaccuracies fall within your field of expertise or not. If they do, they can be infuriating; if they don't, the reader probably isn't going to even notice. I wouldn't have known the "Congressional Medal of Honor" was wrong, had you not told me that it was.
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That's true, but at the same time, if the story is obvious fantasy, you can check your mind at the door.
For instance, glaring science mistakes in Space Opera don't bother me at all (well, maybe a little*), but if it's Science Fiction, they do.
*When people go out in space and immediately freeze.