{"id":1788776,"date":"2020-04-22T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788776"},"modified":"2020-04-22T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:39:04","slug":"an-explorers-cartography-of-already-settled-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/an-explorers-cartography-of-already-settled-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"An Explorer’s Cartography of Already Settled Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"An<\/a>As you probably know, I\u2019m keenly interested in fiction where maps are part of the story. The latest example of this comes from my friend Fran Wilde, whose story, \u201cAn Explorer\u2019s Cartography of Already Settled Lands<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d went live on Tor.com this morning. This is a story that challenges our ideas of what a map is for and what a map does\u2014what a map maps<\/em>\u2014as travellers from another world discover that their destination is already inhabited, and try to map themselves into a safe space in between the settled areas\u2014which is a real twist on the colonial uses of maps in history. It can be read for free online; an ebook<\/a> is also available at a nominal cost.<\/p>\n

(See also my in-progress list of fiction about maps<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you probably know, I\u2019m keenly interested in fiction where maps are part of the story. The latest example of this comes from my friend Fran Wilde, whose story, \u201cAn Explorer\u2019s Cartography of Already Settled… 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":[746,644],"class_list":["post-1788776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fiction","tag-science-fiction","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786118,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/new-edition-of-star-trek-stellar-cartography\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788776,"position":0},"title":"New Edition of Star Trek: Stellar Cartography","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 August 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"A new edition of Star Trek: Stellar Cartography is coming out in October, TrekCore reports. 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