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Since: Jan, 2001

What is it when a writer goes back and adds something before other stories that does not necessarily invalidate the stories (as in a retcon) but rather looks odd for not having been mentioned in them? I.e. Honor Harrington causing a diplomatic incident in a prequel to On Basilisk Station that nobody in OBS seems to know about?