Kowal pulls a similar trick in "Ghost Talkers," creating a world different enough from ours to be fresh but close enough to this one to feel real. In "Shades of Milk and Honey" (2010) and her succeeding Jane Austen-inspired novels, Kowal took well-researched reality and added one fantastic notion - glamour, a form of magic worked by manipulating strands of the ether. While British soldiers and their allies fight Germans on the ground, American heiress Ginger Stuyvesant battles Jerry through the ether. In Mary Robinette Kowal's version of World War I, there are no materialists in the foxholes.
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