{"id":1812811,"date":"2023-02-21T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1812811"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:47:57","slug":"an-sf-fantasy-map-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/02\/an-sf-fantasy-map-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"An SF\/Fantasy Map Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December Tor.com revealed the map<\/a> for Martha Wells\u2019s upcoming fantasy novel, Witch King<\/em><\/strong>, which comes out in May. The post includes both Rhys Davies\u2019s map and Wells\u2019s initial sketch: compare and contrast. Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>\/UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

How often do Star Trek<\/em> tie-in novels come with maps? John Jackson Miller\u2019s Strange New Worlds<\/em> novel, The High Country<\/em><\/strong>, which comes out today, includes maps of the low-technology world on which it is set; in Miller\u2019s Twitter thread last month<\/a>, he wondered whether his book was the first, but it turns out that a 2000 Deep Space Nine<\/em> novel also had maps<\/a>. Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>\/UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

In my article about maps in science fiction<\/a> I made reference to the maps in Kim Stanley Robinson\u2019s 1993-1996 Mars<\/em> trilogy. Mastodon user 65dBnoise decided those maps were \u201cvery few\u201d and \u201cvery coarse\u201d (he\u2019s not wrong<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>) and made some higher resolution maps based on USGS topographical maps of Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December Tor.com revealed the map for Martha Wells\u2019s upcoming fantasy novel, Witch King, which comes out in May. The post includes both Rhys Davies\u2019s map and Wells\u2019s initial sketch: compare and contrast. Amazon (Canada\/UK)… 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":[745,31,295,644,645,643],"class_list":["post-1812811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-mars","tag-science-fiction","tag-science-fiction-maps","tag-star-trek","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787577,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/mapping-deep-space-nines-bajor\/","url_meta":{"origin":1812811,"position":0},"title":"Mapping Deep Space Nine’s Bajor","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Fantasy worlds have established maps. 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. Its map was created by DS9 writer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Imaginary Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Imaginary Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/imaginary-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bajor-whitehead-1024x651.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bajor-whitehead-1024x651.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bajor-whitehead-1024x651.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bajor-whitehead-1024x651.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4310,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/the-only-star-chart-youll-ever-need\/","url_meta":{"origin":1812811,"position":1},"title":"The Only Star Chart You’ll Ever Need","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 April 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The successor to\u00a0the Only Fantasy Map You'll Ever Need\u00a0is the Only Star Map You'll Need, a riff on maps of galactic empires and space-opera tropes\u00a0that\u00a0emerged from the discussion in this thread. It's a few years old, but Boing Boing spotted it yesterday. 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Fantasy maps increased in number during the 20th century due to the rise of science fiction and fantasy writing, and the birth\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":"Bernard Sleigh, \"An ancient mappe of Fairyland,\" 1918. 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