Writing the opening scene for chapter 18 of Elevated, I realized that my twenty-five year old memory of how Rio de Janeiro is laid out was a little fuzzy and as a result, the way I laid out Rio, the capital of New Rome, doesn't actually fit the geography.
This will teach me not to rely on memory when maps are available.
When I do the clean-up of Elevated, I'm going to have to move some things around. The most notable change is that there's actually no place that has the views described from Gaius's estate. Where I'd meant to put it, there's actually no ocean view at all. Also, the Imperial Coast Highway should be running northwest out of the capital, through what is actually Sao Conrado.
None of this requires story changes, but it may be a little jarring to anyone that knows the map of Rio when we get to chapter 18 because I need to make a continuity break, which I will go back and fix later.
This is one of the hazards of posting as you write, I imagine.
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