aylin ᯓ★ asked Rick Riordan:

Hi! I was wondering which year the sun and the star will be set in because it would be interesting to correlate to events..Also, your books are fantastic! (?)

Rick Riordan Hope you enjoy the book! I never tie a particular 'real year' to the action of a novel, just as I never assign a birth year to any of my characters. The novel happens in its own 'modern day,' whenever the reader is reading it. Of course you can try to guess what was going on in the real world when I wrote any particular book by the kind of cultural references I make, but even that doesn't necessarily tie to exact years. For instance, 'So Yesterday' was a hit by Hilary Duff the year I was writing The Lightning Thief, but that doesn't mean the book action has to happen in that year. I think the joke of Grover playing that particular song only gets funnier the older the song is.

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