Conflation of Science Fiction and History

I made an embarassing faux pas today, emailing an obituary of the Tongan King to a Samoan friend. The main reason I transposed Tonga for Samoa in my head was that I'd been reaing Rudy Rucker's Realware recently. The obituary had mentioned several technological advances made by the Tongan King, including support of geostationary sattelites over Tonga, which are echoed in the novel, but in the novel the setting is Samoa, and the charachter is the Samoan King of about 2050 (who's in a relationship with a 'Moldie', which is an intelligent piece of peizoplastic, supported by various chemical reactions in its symbiotic fungi).

Sorry Ron!