Now that I think about it:
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Originally Posted by Ea
Just remembered something that really irritated me: In George R. R. Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice" there's these flint mountains, and AFAIK it's a geological impossibility. It just kept taking me out of the story and I never got futher than the first book.
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In Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire", if I remember correctly, it is told that a season (any season) can be as short as 2 months or as long as 100 years, almost without predictability. Which is an astronomical impossibility.
Flint mountains bothered you, and extremely irregular and eccentric movements of the planet don't?
I'm not accusing, mind you, I'm just throwing food for thoughts: I remember reading, years ago, a fantasy saga set in a hollow world where gravity didn't pull towards the center of the planet but towards the planet's crust, so that those who lived "inside" the hollow world "walked on the roof" so to speak.
The "external" shell of the world still had mountains and oceans, even thought it would be geologically impossible as well.
This, absurdely, never threw me off. What I felt really distubing, and what kept pushing my suspension of disbelief hard, was that two of the main characters could block a zweihander (huge germanic two-handed sword) blow using a rapier. Which, if I tried when I practiced medieval fencing, would have caused my arm to be chopped off by the zweihander.