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Old 01-17-2018, 01:07 PM   #1312
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
I've encountered this much more frequently in detective / police procedural fiction than in science fiction. I've read a few where key plot devices would be unusable in a story set since cell phones became common.
OTOH, I'm currently watching the George Gently series set in the 1960's and it's refreshing to see a mystery get solved without resorting to cell phones, DNA analysis, computer hacking, traffic cams, facial recognition or GPS tracking...
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