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Literature Map: Results for Neil Gaiman
Try out the Literature Map to find authors who you might like – type in the name of an author and it will give you a cloud of names to try, who should appeal to you. Not so many entries for non-English writers unfortunately.

World Mapper: percentage of the world’s births per territory (click to view the full map)
Another place, which has enjoyed a lot coverage in various magazines recently, and which has a growing collection of interesting maps is World Mapper, a site which shows maps distorted so that the area of each country represents that county’s share of whatever is being mapped (imports, wealth, disease, etc.). Can this map of births really be correct – the proportion (area on the map) of British births to the USA is surprisingly large, I thought? Makes fascinating browsing.

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