![]() ![]() ![]() Fantasy Maps Don’t Belong in the Hands of Fantasy Characters. The Territory Is Not the Map: Critiques of Fantasy Maps Have More to Do with the Shortcomings of Fantasy Worlds than the Maps that Depict Them. Grown Man Refers to Map at Beginning of Novel to Find out where Ruined Castle of Arnoth Is Located. Here are online essays about maps in fantasy novels (I hope the links all still work):Īaronovitch, Ben. So, here’s a download from the database of works I’ve noticed over the last decade. I thought people might like to read some other commentaries. In the previous post I cited an online essay about maps in fantasy novels. Yes, the fantasy realm has magic and gods and demons and what have you, but if it can be mapped it can’t be that different from our own world! The map indicates to the reader that they’re not going to have to work too hard to understand the system of the fantasy realm.Īnd, of course, the map indicates that the author has done the appropriate world-building work, and that the social and cultural forms will be worked out with a similar degree of detail. I think of the presence of maps in genre fantasy novels as a function of needing to establish that the fundamentals of physics are the same in the particular fantasy realm as in the real world.
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