The Secret Map
Travel Essays by Simon Slater
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“One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.” – Alan De Botton It was during a…
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Neo Seoul, South Korea. 2047. The immigrant massacre of 2045 sparked an uprising halted by a titanic explosion that cast a dark, toxic cloud over the capital. Nobody knew for sure who gave the order, though most had an idea. In the run up to the blast, rumours had been circulating that underground Samsung labs had been engineering military weaponry…