Editing Marion County, West Virginia (section)

==Literary presence==
In the [[1632 series|''1632'' series]] of [[science fiction]] novels, the fictional town of [[Grantville (1632 series)|Grantville]] (closely modelled after real-life [[Mannington, West Virginia|Mannington]]) and its environs were part of Marion County until the [[Extraterrestrials in fiction|alien]]-caused [[space-time]] anomaly which sent it to 17th-century [[Thuringia]]. The county and its institutions are frequently mentioned in the course of the series, and writers interested in the series have held a number of "mini-cons" (miniature [[science fiction conventions]]) in Mannington.<ref>"Author's Afterword" in Flint, Eric. ''1632''</ref><ref>[https://marioncvb.com/eric-flint/ Marion County VB. "Eric Flint's Best-Selling Sci-Fi Novel Takes Place in Marion County: Grantville Gets Transported Back To 1632" July 31, 2020 ''Marion County Visitors Bureau'' website]</ref><ref>[https://www.baen.com/interviews/intdemarce Baen Interviews: Virginia DeMarce March 2006. ''Baen.com'']</ref> Flint has stated, "The town of Grantville is very closely modeled on the actual town of Mannington. There are rules that I require everyone to follow when they write in the series. One of them is that it if it wasn’t in the town of Mannington in 2000, you can’t have it in Grantville. The one cheat I had to do was that I needed a power plant. The power plant is about 15 miles away, in a town called Granttown, so I just sorta moved it over. That’s the only real cheat.”<ref>[https://locusmag.com/2016/12/eric-flint-remaking-history/ "Eric Flint: Remaking History"] December 4, 2016 ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]'' magazine website</ref>