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Originally Posted by Sirtel
This.
True, I have perhaps not reached such a venerable age quite yet, but if I want to learn something, I'll read a non-fictional book. Fiction is for entertainment.
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Ah but salting some real facts about a time period into a piece of fiction can help make the illusion of reality that much richer. An example on TV is the episode of Star Trek where they end up being thrown back to the 1960's around the time of the first moon shot. I don't know if it was an actual news broadcast but around the same time we were actually working to reach the moon. Or there is "Space" which followed the lives of people who may not have existed themselves but there were people like them who did take part in actual historic events on which the story was based.