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I’ve got Norad Santa<\/a> up and am tracking Santa’s progress across the globe. As far as holiday traditions go, this one is particularly interesting to me as a writer.<\/p>\n

Whenever a writer tries to create a fictional culture, (s)he tries to make things believable by envisioning all the consequences to society. One of the ways to gain a real feel is by inventing holidays or traditions that relate to peculiar conditions of your world. If you have two moons, you would have a conjunction day, which might be a celebration of love.<\/p>\n

Many science fiction writers of yesteryear envisioned the internet. Did any of them think of this? Future generations will wonder what the holidays were like without it.<\/p>\n

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