Try a Google Map Story
Google doesn’t quite rule the world yet but is infiltrating new regions every day.
Last year Penguin Books commissioned writers and designers to create six digital stories. Each pays homage to a well know traditional story. Explore them all at We Tell Stories.
One of the new stories created is The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming. The design people at Six to Start mashed the story with Google Maps to produce a story where you follow the characters across the map. In this case the story goes from London to various locations in Scotland. This means that The 21 Steps is clearly in the setting as well as the genre of its 1915 predecessor, The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan.
Please road-test The 21 Steps (and The Thirty-nine Steps for that matter) and let us know what you think by commenting below.
You might also like to investigate Google Lit Trips for another way of using Google with literature.
