The map, please

Tempted again to incorporate a map into my book covers. That or somewhere in the index or something. Geography ended up an important part of the story in so many of this series. In the London book, the relationship of the under-construction Northern Extension with the Kennington Loop, Kennington Park, Nine Elms, and the Battersea Power Station is important to the plot.

In the Kyoto book, it is a minor plot element but the physical layout of the Transcendence complex has much to do with the theme as well. In the Athens book, her epic flight back from just south of Frankfurt could also benefit from a map. And in the Paris book, several of Huxley's clues are based on the physical relationship of various elements of the Parisian landscape; following the "ribbon of steel" from Sacre-Coeur to the champs-elysees, or taking one particular avenue from the arc de triomphe to Hotel Biron.

But it seems a bit much to clutter the index and appendix with a map, way too much to have one in the frontispiece like this was a '90s epic fantasy book, and wasted effort to do the back cover as my intent was always to prioritize the ebook side.