{"id":5391,"date":"2012-09-26T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/09\/here-there-be-dragons\/"},"modified":"2017-10-22T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T16:10:09","slug":"here-there-be-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/09\/here-there-be-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Zelazny’s Here There Be Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Zelazny<\/a>\u2019s Here There Be Dragons<\/em><\/strong> is a short fairy tale that first appeared as one volume of a two-volume limited-edition deluxe illustrated signed slipcased hardcover set published by Donald M. Grant in 1992. Zelazny wrote it and its companion story, Way Up High<\/em> (about a girl and a pterosaur) in the late 1960s, and had Vaughn Bod\u00e9<\/a> illustrate them before his untimely death in 1975. The story is about a kingdom that nobody ever left because its Royal Cartographers always wrote “Here There Be Dragons” at the margins of their maps, so everyone thought they were surrounded by dragons. Hilarity ensues when the princess wants fireworks for her birthday, but no one knows how to make them anymore, so the idea is hit upon to enlist the services of a dragon. And so it goes. It’s a clever little story, but you’re almost certain never to see it: the print run was limited to a thousand copies, and while the set is available used on Amazon<\/a> and AbeBooks, it’s very, very expensive. I’m afraid it has become collectible<\/em>. (I was lent<\/em> a copy. I have to give it back.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Zelazny\u2019s Here There Be Dragons is a short fairy tale that first appeared as one volume of a two-volume limited-edition deluxe illustrated signed slipcased hardcover set published by Donald M. Grant in 1992. Zelazny… 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-5391","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":1788140,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/12\/mason-and-millers-third-act-map-dragons\/","url_meta":{"origin":5391,"position":0},"title":"Mason and Miller’s Third Act: Map Dragons","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 December 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Betsy Mason and Greg Miller started blogging about maps at Wired Map Lab (which ran from 2013 to 2015), then moved to National Geographic, where their blog, All Over the Map, provided first-rate coverage of all matters cartographic, and formed the core of their book, coincidentally also called All Over\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs & Newsletters"","block_context":{"text":"Blogs & Newsletters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/blogs-newsletters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5322,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/06\/a-scholarly-work-on-fantasy-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":5391,"position":1},"title":"A Scholarly Work on Fantasy Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 June 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"I knew that Swedish literary scholar Stefan Ekman has been studying fantasy maps\u2014see, for example, this blog post of his\u2014but I only found out today (thanks to the Locus forthcoming books listings) that he has a book coming out on the subject: Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings\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":5583,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/06\/review-here-be-dragons\/","url_meta":{"origin":5391,"position":2},"title":"Review: Here Be Dragons","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Stefan Ekman\u2019s Here Be Dragons\u00a0(Wesleyan University Press, February 2013) is a book-length examination of the use of maps and settings in fantasy literature. 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Every single one calls out for exploration.\"\u00a0Some of them are familiar in form, others are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Games"","block_context":{"text":"Games","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/games\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}