‘Sma, believe me; it has not all been “fun”.’ He leant against a cabinet full of ancient projectile weapons. ‘And, worse than all that,’ he insisted, ‘is when you turn the goddamn maps upside-down.’ ‘What?’ Sma said, puzzled. ‘Turning the maps upside down,’ he repeated. ‘Have you any idea how annoying and inconvenient it is when you get to a place and find that they map the place the other way up compared to the maps you’ve got? Because of something stupid like some people think a magnetic needle is pointing up to heaven, when other people think it’s just heavier and pointing down? Or because
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