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TECH BUZZ: A British author uses Google Maps to publish a thriller. Charles Cumming’s “The 21 Steps” is about a man in London who thinks he’s being followed, and readers follow the story as it unfolds in Google Maps. This could be a perfect new medium for choose-your-own-adventure tales.

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The Best Links:

1. Here Are Some Tools to Help You Make Your Own Map Stories
2. Future Google Maps of Sci-Fi?
3. ‘The 21 Steps’, by Charles Cumming, a Story Told in Maps
4. This is But Part 1 of a 7 Part Online Game
5. A Thriller Told via Google Maps