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In a message dated 97-11-17 13:14:39 EST, you write:
 
<<      As the winter drearies approach, I am looking for some good
      cartographic reads, and am wondering if mapsters out there have
      favorite fiction incorporating the use of maps in important ways.
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Hmmm.   There was a fascinating, tho throw-away, scene in one of 'Andre
Norton's' early science fiction novels, that had a group of time-travelers
playing a 3-D strategy game on a holographic map.  If I can recall the title
I'll forward, but I read this piece in the late 50's or early 60's (sic), and
am lucky the old synapses still have enough recall to retrieve this much.
 
There are magical/mystical/haunted/alien maps all over genre fiction
(children's, mystery, horror, fantasy and science fiction).  I remember using
some of the encyclopedias and topical readers' guides from the reference
stacks of the Denver main public library when on similar hunts in the
past....
 
Good Luck..
 
Ed Sullivan
Economic and Planning Systems, Inc.
 
P.S.  Poe's 'The Gold Bug', and Tolkein's 'The Hobbit', and RLS' 'Treasure
Island', and....