{"id":1790768,"date":"2021-05-04T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790768"},"modified":"2021-05-04T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:02:34","slug":"mapping-the-freedom-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/05\/mapping-the-freedom-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping The Freedom Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Lucinda Roy, The Freedom Race<\/em> (2021).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For her upcoming fantasy novel\u00a0The Freedom Race<\/em><\/a> (Tor<\/a>, July 2021), Lucinda Roy decided to do what a lot of fantasy authors do: draw a map<\/a>. But she did it in a way that most fantasy authors don\u2019t: \u201cI needed a persona<\/em> map\u2014a map that could feasibly have been drawn by Ji-ji, the main character in the book. Her map doesn\u2019t simply introduce the world to readers, it actually appears inside the narrative and helps catalyze the action.\u201d Then she decided that she needed\u00a0two<\/em> maps, both intrinsic parts of the story, both revealing a great deal about their respective mapmakers. Very much relevant to my interests: I wrote, after all,\u00a0a piece about fantasy maps in fantasy worlds<\/a>\u00a0(and got some flack for it). Though it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve heard the term\u00a0persona map<\/em>. A new term of art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For her upcoming fantasy novel\u00a0The Freedom Race (Tor, July 2021), Lucinda Roy decided to do what a lot of fantasy authors do: draw a map. 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J. O'Connell dealt with the editorial decision on whether to include a map in a fantasy novel. That\u00a0article appears to have followed up on\u00a0O'Connell's piece from last August, which I missed. It explores why some fantasy\u00a0authors may or may not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":645,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/three-fantasy-authors-talk-about-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790768,"position":1},"title":"Three Fantasy Authors Talk About Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 January 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Seth Dickinson\u2019s debut fantasy novel,\u00a0The Traitor Baru Cormorant\u00a0(which by the way is an amazing book that I recommend wholeheartedly) contains a map unlike your typical fantasy map:\u00a0it includes annotations by the protagonist that conceal as much as they reveal, and reveal more\u00a0about the protagonist than\u00a0they do the geography. 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