The Blank Atlas

The world is an atlas. What is charted becomes true. What is erased is forgotten, as if it never was. Wystan Pell is a chainboy, the lowest rank in the Lowmarch survey, paid to hold the far end of a measuring chain and keep quiet. He walks home from a three-day traverse with a notebook full of honest numbers and finds a field of tall grass where his village used to stand. No ruins. No one who remembers it. Every official map says it never existed. Only his notebook disagrees. Wystan cannot lie, and no register can hold his name. That makes him useful to people who want the world to stay exactly as drawn, and dangerous to the people who drew it. With a bitter old surveyor, a runaway archivist who believes in rules, a smuggler who believes in nothing, and a footnote that has learned to talk, he sets out to prove that one small village was real. He has always hated a lie in the margin. Now he has to decide who gets to write in it. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Blank Atlas — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠