“If I ruled the world, or at least a publishing company, all books would contain as much supplementary information as possible. Nonfiction, fiction—doesn’t matter. Every work would have an appendix filled with diagrams, background information, digressions and anecdata. And of course, maps. Lots and lots of maps”
Victoria Johnson, “The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids” (cf. my post, “Maps of Fictional Worlds”)

Notes

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    Yes! As a side note, this is another thing that makes The Magician King one of the best books in the world.
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    Yeah! Annotated as hell!
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    Worlds”](http://www.austinkleon.com/2008/05/21/maps-of-fictional-worlds/)) This reminds about when I used to work at a...
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