{"id":1786498,"date":"2018-10-25T08:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786498"},"modified":"2018-10-25T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:35:30","slug":"more-from-and-on-the-writers-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/more-from-and-on-the-writers-map\/","title":{"rendered":"More from (and on) The Writer’s Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Monday\u00a0I received<\/a> a review copy of The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a collection of essays edited by Huw Lewis-Jones. It’s out this week from the University of Chicago Press<\/a>. It’s very much up my alley, relevant to my interests, et cetera, and I’m looking forward to reviewing it, though the to-be-reviewed pile it’s sitting on top of is getting very large.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, another book excerpt has been reprinted online: Literary Hub<\/em> has Lev Grossman’s wide-ranging piece on fantasy maps<\/a>. It joins the essays by David Mitchell<\/a>, Frances Hardinge, Robert Macfarlane and Miraphora Mina<\/a> we’ve seen before. The book isn’t all text, though: as you might expect, there are rather a lot of maps in it. Those maps are the focus of Atlas Obscura<\/em>\u2019s look at the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously: David Mitchell on Starting with a Map<\/a>; Essays on Literary Maps: Treasure Island, Moominland and the Marauder\u2019s Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday\u00a0I received a review copy of The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, a collection of essays edited by Huw Lewis-Jones. It’s out this week from the University of Chicago Press. It’s very… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-1786498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-books","tag-fantasy-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788038,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/the-writers-map-wins-a-world-fantasy-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786498,"position":0},"title":"The Writer’s Map Wins a World Fantasy Award","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 November 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The Writer\u2019s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, which I reviewed on Tor.com last year, has won a World Fantasy Award for its editor, Huw Lewis-Jones. 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Science fictional worlds not so much: what maps exist of imaginary planets are often fan imaginings rather than \u201cofficial\u201d work. One exception is the planet Bajor, a key location in the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 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