Date: June 10th, 2019 19:09 (UTC)
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Right? I find it insulting and also baffling that young people are not supposed to be able to relate to books written before the year 2000. News flash: almost all of literature in human history that they will be expected to read for the rest of their lives was written before the year 2000!

Also, if you're going to change the time period of a book, you really need to actually think about how the time period affects your book. I read an interesting tumblr post, wherein someone reported seeing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic tagged "Modern AU" on AO3 and feeling super old, and someone reblogged to say, "No, but think about it! The plot would have been completely different with smartphones with built-in video cameras and social media." Which is also how I feel about Duncan's paranormals. Either they're set in circa the 1970s, or more than just a search-and-replace of the word "email" for "letter" is different.
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