SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

DAVID V BARRETT ROUNDS UP THE LATEST TITLES FROM THE WORLD OF SPECULATIVE AND FANTASTIC FICTION

The Cartographers Peng Shepherd Orion 2022 Hb, 392pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781398709928 Map-makers sometimes include false information in a map – a made-up river name, or a small street or hamlet – to catch other map-makers stealing and copying their maps. But what if one of these “phantom settlements” becomes a real place by being created on paper? We’re given this spoiler right at the beginning of Peng Shepherd’s The Cartog-raphers, but the foreknowledge makes the novel even more intriguing. Some years ago Nell Young fell out spectacularly with her father, a senior cartographer at the New York Public Library, leading him to fire her from her dream job there. Now he’s died suddenly at his desk – and she discovers a web of intrigue around a cheap, mass-produced road map…

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