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On April Fool's Day in 1977, the paper published a seven-page supplement about the fictional archipelago of San Serriffe, whose islands included Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse.
His Lyonesse trilogy is set during the Middle Ages in the Elder Isles, a fictional archipelago where daily life is animated by political rivalries and the spells of witches and magicians.
The fictional archipelago — detailed in a seven-page supplement in the Guardian newspaper, rife with droll typographical puns — tricked some gullible subscribers and convinced advertisers that the fool's holiday could be lucrative.
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Some make the historical personal: wonderful memoirs like Günter Grass's The Box, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, Fania Fenelon's The Musicians of Auschwitz and of course Solzhenitsyn's stream of epic works, from The Gulag Archipelago to the quasi-fictional Cancer Ward.
It'll be very interesting to see what Nintendo has in store for the return visits to the new universe they created, which occupy a Hawaii-like archipelago of islands in the fictional universe.
Christopher Priest's The Gradual (Gollancz), set in a vast archipelago, develops a straightforward-enough science-fictional version of time zone differences into an extraordinary meditation on travel, ageing and loss, while Nina Allan's beautifully written The Race (Titan) works four characters and two versions of Britain into a heart-wrenching story about the difficulties of human connection.
Sorry, Archipelago.
archipelago -- n.
Archipelago Books.
And fictional.
The archipelago surrounds me.
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