No, you can't move the real world (unless you have a really good reason to) but what a lot of contemporary authors do in other genres is to add to reality - having a whole new street, or landmark building, or city quarter, that you can shape however you want without stepping on anyone's toes. Having all the rest taken from the real world lends your book authenticity. There's nothing worse than someone getting easily researchable details wrong.
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Date: 2008-11-22 08:52 am (UTC)