Lineages
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Bring any book to the centre: what it draws on is to its left, what draws on it to its right.
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Bring any book to the centre: what it draws on is to its left, what draws on it to its right.
Of its time
We don’t know yet if this was inspired by another work, do you?
Its heirs
Douglas Adams named The Sirens of Titan as an influence: a comic tour of the solar system in which human history turns out to serve an absurd alien purpose, as the Earth itself does in The Hitchhiker's Guide.
Of its places
Every line in the atlas, by place or by time. Tap a work to bring it to the centre.