{"id":5314,"date":"2012-04-08T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/04\/el_viaje_de_argos\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:27:11","slug":"el-viaje-de-argos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/04\/el-viaje-de-argos\/","title":{"rendered":"El Viaje de Argos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a> Alejandro Polanco Masa<\/a>, whose map blog La Cartoteca<\/a> is one of the finest on the subject in any language, has announced<\/a> the availability of his speculative fiction novel El Viaje de Argos<\/cite><\/a>, in which maps play a prominent role. Here’s the description in Spanish:<\/p>\n

Desde antiguo un enigm\u00e1tico astro llamado Argos siembra la atm\u00f3sfera con una substancia muy especial. S\u00f3lo un peque\u00f1o grupo de sabios sabe c\u00f3mo recolectar y emplear esa esencia de los cielos que permite la vida eterna. Pero en pleno auge de la Roma imperial, un desastre sacude a la hermandad de sabios. Desperdigados por el mundo y sin los conocimientos necesarios para mantener la inmortalidad, vagar\u00e1n sin rumbo, condenados al olvido. Hasta que en el siglo XXI, una inquieta historiadora, Irene Abad, descubre un antiguo mapa que, sin saberlo, conduce hasta el peligroso secreto que los Hijos de Argos han perseguido durante dos milenios.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wish I could say more about this, but I never studied Spanish and can barely navigate Spanish-language websites, much less read novels. El Viaje de Argos<\/cite> is available in ebook form via Amazon<\/a> and iBooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alejandro Polanco Masa, whose map blog La Cartoteca is one of the finest on the subject in any language, has announced the availability of his speculative fiction novel El Viaje de Argos, in which maps… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[644],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-science-fiction","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788776,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/an-explorers-cartography-of-already-settled-lands\/","url_meta":{"origin":5314,"position":0},"title":"An Explorer’s Cartography of Already Settled Lands","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 April 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"As you probably know, I\u2019m keenly interested in fiction where maps are part of the story. 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