There's also a novel I read, but have forgotten title and author. Automated newspapers have been setup; completely autonomous, self-powered, gathering their own news, etc. And one of these papers is running a series of articles about a military conqueror's progress across the United States. A conquest that *isn't* happening in the real world of the story. So is the newspaper making it up, has it tapped into an alternative world, or is this the future of the story world?