{"id":1811454,"date":"2023-01-12T19:49:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T00:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1811454"},"modified":"2023-01-12T19:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T00:49:33","slug":"new-fantasy-novel-the-map-and-the-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/new-fantasy-novel-the-map-and-the-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fantasy Novel: The Map and the Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book I\u2019m always interested in fantasy novels in which maps play a role beyond the endpapers\u2014where maps or mapmakers are a key element of the story. So I\u2019m noting for future reference The Map and the Territory<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by A. M. Tuomala (Candlemark and Gleam<\/a>, Dec. 2022), which has a wizard and a cartographer as its protagonists. Nerds of a Feather<\/em> has a review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m always interested in fantasy novels in which maps play a role beyond the endpapers\u2014where maps or mapmakers are a key element of the story. So I\u2019m noting for future reference The Map and the… 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":[745],"class_list":["post-1811454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787906,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/a-fantasy-maps-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1811454,"position":0},"title":"A Fantasy Maps Update","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 October 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"It\u2019s been a while since my last post. That\u2019s because I spent most of last week with my head down, working on a presentation about fantasy maps for a science fiction\/fantasy convention that took place over the weekend. 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