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Every single Speculative Fiction setting comes with a hot, mildly stimulant beverage that can take the place of coffee. Apparently coffee itself is too mundane to talk about; alternately, authors of Medieval European Fantasy may want to avoid it because it wasn't common in Europe until the 17th century. Sometimes authors justify it by saying that coffee exists in-universe, but the beverage in question isn't really coffee, or is a specific form of coffee that everyone inexplicably prefers to all other forms. Examples of Uncoffee include:

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  • Every single Speculative Fiction setting comes with a hot, mildly stimulant beverage that can take the place of coffee. Apparently coffee itself is too mundane to talk about; alternately, authors of Medieval European Fantasy may want to avoid it because it wasn't common in Europe until the 17th century. Sometimes authors justify it by saying that coffee exists in-universe, but the beverage in question isn't really coffee, or is a specific form of coffee that everyone inexplicably prefers to all other forms. Examples of Uncoffee include:
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  • Every single Speculative Fiction setting comes with a hot, mildly stimulant beverage that can take the place of coffee. Apparently coffee itself is too mundane to talk about; alternately, authors of Medieval European Fantasy may want to avoid it because it wasn't common in Europe until the 17th century. Sometimes authors justify it by saying that coffee exists in-universe, but the beverage in question isn't really coffee, or is a specific form of coffee that everyone inexplicably prefers to all other forms. Can be considered a Sub-Trope of Most Writers Are Writers: anyone who's ever struggled with writer's block will feel they owe a debt of gratitude to the drink, and a brief cameo is the least they could do. Nick Lowe, of "The Well-Tempered Plot-Device" fame, has suggested that this is a vicious cycle: you have writers block, you drink coffee, you start thinking about coffee, and you mistake this for your writer's block clearing up. Compare Call a Rabbit a Smeerp, the supertrope for things other than coffee. Also see this essay by Jo Walton (which, incidentally, links back to this wiki). Examples of Uncoffee include:
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