October 21, 2015 - A fantasy novel’s map is more than just a piece of cartography, it is a depiction of the world the writer has created in their mind, and a glimpse into a new world. The rivers, valleys, forests, and mountains can sweep across continents and ...

December 11, 2015 - All of the locations labelled appear in the book and there is no extraneous information. That said, I was still entranced by this map. Having so little information makes what there is all the more important. What happened at the mountain, where the sword declares the site of Boar’s Battle? What are the flood tunnels for? And, of course, it has a decorative border, and they’re always nice to look at. Alright, I might be biased, but these are some of my favourite fantasy maps purely because they’re of the world I’ve invented for the Realm Rift Saga.

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May 30, 2020 - I think of the presence of maps in genre fantasy novels as a function of needing to establish that the fundamentals of physics are the same in the particular fantasy realm as in the real world. Yes, the fantasy realm has magic and gods and demons and what have you, but if it can be mapped it can’t be that different from our own world!

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I love it when an author creates a fantasy world in their book, and then is nice enough to give us a map to help navigate through the world.

July 16, 2024 - Luckily, a display at Harvard’s Pusey Library takes the guesswork out of planning your next fantastical trip through Middle Earth. “From Academieland to Zelda,” on view in the library’s first-floor corridor through Nov. 3, features fictional maps that chart everything from TV, film, and literary locales to video game worlds, and even abstract concepts.

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July 26, 2025 - Bookstagammer @athomeintheclouds has just launched the #prioryathon readathon for anyone who has been looking for a reading buddy to tackle this book. Prior has not one, but two beautiful maps! The story features dragon riders, royal families, a variety of LGBTQ+ characters, promises epic adventures and has endless reviews singing its praises. If you (like myself) absolutely loved the Shadow & Bone series, you’ll have already been introduced to some of the compelling characters from Six of Crows (and its duology sequel Crooked Kingdom).

August 20, 2021 - Literary maps hold a special place in my heart, letting us visualize fictional lands and imaginary places. This is a list of literary maps, in their delightful and beautiful cartographic splendor, from a variety of genres and books.

January 19, 2017 - It is made up of different countries including Adarlan, Terrasen, Eyllwe and Fenharrow. Erilea exists within a greater universe structured and controlled "by the Wyrd". A map of Erilea is included at the beginning of each book.

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August 24, 2015 - One book, many maps Joe Abercrombie, like Jemisin, embraced maps after a mapless fantasy trilogy. There were no maps in his First Law series, and in fact wrote about this in 2007, saying that maps weren’t suitable for his character-driven fiction. “I want a reader to be nailed to the text, chewing their fingernails to find out what happens next,” he wrote, “not constantly flipping back to the fly-leaf to check just how far north exactly Carleon is from Uffrith, or whatever.” Two books later, however, he didn’t just include one map, he had five.

November 28, 2021 - But you can also imagine taking a different road and seeing the pleasant countryside sights that the book never describes because the characters simply don’t go that way. The map itself adds to that because it is drawn in a simpler style than the faux cartographic main maps. You feel that there is a rustic reality to the place that you see on the map, one that you could touch. A map that to me gave that feeling and even more is the one that I consider the greatest fantasy map of all: the Wilderland map from The Hobbit.

October 19, 2022 - The science fiction we read did without them, but any cover featuring a dragon, a many-turreted castle, or a woman in a leather bra suggested you’d find a map the moment you peeked inside the book. Like so many things that once set adolescent geeks apart, reading maps for places that aren’t there has gone mainstream. Nerds and non-nerds alike relish their weekly swoop across the map of Westeros in Game of Thrones’ gorgeous title sequence. The map that opens every episode of Game of Thrones addresses the viewer as two persons at once: a resident of Westeros, and a reader of a fantasy novel.

January 3, 2022 - A really lovely scroll map of Garth Nix’s beloved Old Kingdom, featuring very fancy burned edging and wooden ends. $38 · Inconceivable! Guilder and Florin face off on either side of the Dread Pirate Roberts in this charming recreation from The Princess Bride. $27 · The Wheel of Time is a rather topical choice but always a personal favourite of mine, and this version has a lovely focus on geographical features. A3 for $70. Twin Peaks deserves a place at the book table as far as I’m concerned.

For one thing, it’s notable how often maps of science fictional planets adopt the distinctive style of fantasy maps. The best-known example is, of course, Anne McCaffrey’s Pern. Bob Porter’s iconic map, which accompanied the main books from Dragonflight (1968) to Dragonsdawn (1988), adopts many elements of the default fantasy map style: oblique hill signs, shaded coastlines, labels that use script lettering, and an ornate compass rose.

January 1, 2025 - Most people who publish a book with a map typically use a combination of these. They might hand draw it and later hire a designer to make it print-worthy. Choose the best option for you and move on to the next steps! This option for learning how to make a fantasy map is among the most popular. You can customize your map to about 90% of what you want with the higher tier softwares, even without any graphic design experience. Take this map example from Tales of Bastunia created with the software Inkarnate:

August 10, 2022 - Here are some great fantasy maps from novels and other sources that will help you to travel through Realms, Dungeons, Far Away Lands and Schools of Magic. A map of the land of Oz from the Oz Series…