https://i.imgur.com/4hfzeLX.jpeg
peter v. brett, thesa
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 05:59 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/xMUBB0G.jpeg
daniel abraham, from the long price quartet
https://i.imgur.com/GTUzczm.jpeg
piers anthony, phaze
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:00 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/5exDe2q.jpeg
r. scott bakker, from the price of nothing
https://i.imgur.com/esPpyRS.jpeg
robert jackson bennett, daretana
https://i.imgur.com/3mRArMM.jpeg
christopher buehlman, from the blacktongue thief
https://i.imgur.com/9s6gMHP.jpeg
kacen callender, from islands of blood and storm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:01 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/zJKGNiR.jpeg
c.j. cherryh from the morgaine cycle
https://i.imgur.com/gxhSrUY.jpeg
julie e. czerneda, marrowdell
https://i.imgur.com/8Xq0BjN.jpeg
seth dickinson, aurdwynn, from the masquerade
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:02 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/Tzdsbfp.jpeg
stephen r. donaldson, the fucking Land
https://i.imgur.com/j87eyAu.jpeg
kate elliott, the hundred from crossroads
https://i.imgur.com/OWwhBqh.jpeg
steven erikson, some of the malazan book of the fallen
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:03 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/n6hlEZG.jpeg
alan dean foster from spellsinger
https://i.imgur.com/0stvJQV.jpeg
basically japan, from lian hearn's tales of the otori
https://i.imgur.com/Z7C8k6v.jpeg
robin hobb, the six duchies from the farseer trilogy
https://i.imgur.com/wzobuuk.jpeg
marlon james, the north lands from the dark star trilogy
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:04 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/pShmXlz.jpeg
n.k jemisin, the broken earth
https://i.imgur.com/B8mr6r9.jpeg
alaya dawn johnson, from the library of broken worlds
https://i.imgur.com/eubEHl5.jpeg
robert jordan, the wheel of time
https://i.imgur.com/DEi1Brs.jpeg
rosemary kirstein, from the steerswoman
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:05 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/vKUezxB.jpeg
guy gavriel kay, fionavar
https://i.imgur.com/iaGZTCz.jpeg
r.f. kuang, from the poppy war
https://i.imgur.com/SPL1fBK.jpeg
katherine kurtz, gwynedd
https://i.imgur.com/iS6NdXW.jpeg
ursula k. le guin, earthsea
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:06 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/TtHStEW.jpeg
fonda lee, island of kekon from the green bone saga
https://i.imgur.com/kV5HIlj.jpeg
jenn lynons, the known world from a chorus of dragons
https://i.imgur.com/VqrSKle.jpeg
grrm - the fucking north
https://i.imgur.com/eGbCgyW.jpeg
patricia mckillip maybe wrote the best fantasy series ever
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:07 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/AW9Qesd.jpeg
china miéville, new crobuzon
https://i.imgur.com/uB9fyp8.jpeg
ilana c. myer, eivar from the harp and ring sequence
https://i.imgur.com/7uUvI6v.jpeg
alex pheby, mordew from the cities of the weft
https://i.imgur.com/67JkhIo.jpeg
robert v.s. redick, from 'the chathrand voyage'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:08 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/v7axXp3.jpeg
rebecca roanhorse, the meridian
https://i.imgur.com/H8CC4uX.jpeg
kim stanley robinson, the years of rice and salt
https://i.imgur.com/zKfx4sj.jpeg
patrick rothfuss, from the kingkiller chronicle
https://i.imgur.com/kLHZbWE.jpeg
samantha shannon, from the roots of chaos
https://i.imgur.com/vZdvff4.png
j.r.r.r.r.r. tolkien, middlearth
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:09 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/mRCi340.jpeg
j.r.r.r.r.r. tolkien, beleriand
https://i.imgur.com/QZyYVIi.jpeg
katharine kerr, deverry
https://i.imgur.com/Na83kYT.jpeg
james islington, from the licanius trilogy
https://i.imgur.com/bkIRBOJ.jpeg
martha wells, from the witch king
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:10 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/mGJqSkk.jpeg
ann leckie, from the reaven tower
https://i.imgur.com/O1ljwDS.jpeg
adrian tchaikovsky, from echoes of the fall
https://i.imgur.com/FE2HYMI.jpeg
aome place called creche?
https://i.imgur.com/omJeMfT.png
an insanely detailed map of ankh-morpork
https://i.imgur.com/PcH4RX0.jpeg
david eddings, tge belgariad
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 06:11 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/igPSF5r.jpeg
it's fucking narnia
https://www.louisecooper.com/fiction/fiction_images/tm_map.jpgNot very clear at all but it's Louise Cooper's Ten Provinces. There are different maps as the series goes on.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:49 (two years ago)
from the Time Master series
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:50 (two years ago)
mookieproof I salute you
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 20:02 (two years ago)
the Iron Crown Enterprises version of Tolkien's ME
https://merpnerds.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/0/7/16073144/2459133_orig.jpg
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 20:04 (two years ago)
and another ICE "non-canon" ME map
https://www.gaslightandsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Middle-Earth-non-canon-from-ICE-ScannedImage-53.jpg
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 20:05 (two years ago)
Love those ICE MERP maps.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 22:17 (two years ago)
Why did Eddings have to draw grasslands like that?
― jmm, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 13:40 (two years ago)
this is a fantastic thread
also proof that someone needs to write a short handbook for fantasy authors entitled "how rivers work"
― ን (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 20:36 (two years ago)
LOL
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 21:02 (two years ago)
top notch, mook! A++.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 22:08 (two years ago)
https://media.freelibrary.org/assets/digital/items/alex00067/images/large.jpg
Map to Westmark (from Lloyd Alexander's Westmark Trilogy).
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 23:14 (two years ago)
wait there are other LA books besides Prydain?!?!
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 17 October 2024 00:07 (two years ago)
I mean I was maybe 12 yo, but I was really, really into the Westmark trilogy.
It's basically Prydain but French Revolution instead of Welsh mythology.
The caveat being that even at a young age I could see that nearly every character had an equivalent character in Prydain.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 17 October 2024 00:30 (two years ago)
oh no
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 17 October 2024 00:31 (two years ago)
I still loved it. It's mysterious in a weird way considering there are not many supernatural elements.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 17 October 2024 00:36 (two years ago)
intrigued by the idea of a late-eighteenth-century french gurgi
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2024 00:54 (two years ago)
I think there is one, but I'm trying to remember them.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 17 October 2024 01:08 (two years ago)
croquements et grignotages, maître!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2024 01:28 (two years ago)
and mountains (tolkien's famous 'box' mountain range of mordor, among others).
― a mysterious, repulsive form of energy that permeates the universe (ledge), Thursday, 17 October 2024 07:46 (two years ago)
strong 'will this do' energy in katherine rundell's impossible creatures
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/9131YvlTe-L._SL1500_.jpg
― a mysterious, repulsive form of energy that permeates the universe (ledge), Thursday, 17 October 2024 07:48 (two years ago)
time for some DALOGRAPHY
https://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c21fc82da8e5b509e6a9e31101f40d5f&action=dlattach;topic=9951.0;attach=217194;image
the dalek book, terry nation, 1964
https://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c21fc82da8e5b509e6a9e31101f40d5f&action=dlattach;topic=9951.0;attach=217226;image
dalek outer space book, terry nation, 1966
― mark s, Thursday, 17 October 2024 09:32 (two years ago)
https://external-preview.redd.it/lZewdYTkntushclCwxIaauCqE8-V5wgmOV5shJomCGc.jpg?auto=webp&s=b5aeb5df435ec299f42d7bed6478217db0932193
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 17 October 2024 09:41 (two years ago)
when i see the term "land-bridge" i say RETVURN!
― mark s, Thursday, 17 October 2024 09:46 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/TFH22DT.jpeg
the planet mongo, alex raymond
― mark s, Thursday, 17 October 2024 12:12 (two years ago)
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/55f43f_6c2fcac27942428ba77ac7b8484d81e4.jpg
Ursula K. Ke Guin, Gethen/Winter, The Left Hand of Darkness
― jmm, Thursday, 17 October 2024 13:15 (two years ago)
ugh, apologies for typo
― jmm, Thursday, 17 October 2024 13:20 (two years ago)
Dalemark, from Diana Wynne Jones' 'Dalemark Quartet' series, in both historical and contemporary modes
https://64.media.tumblr.com/de4c608ed8da70dc2b930453f6ccc655/tumblr_mmqsdhvHIN1sqjgigo2_r1_1280.png
https://64.media.tumblr.com/dfeb3a08c222271675cdc082f8fc85cf/tumblr_mmqsdhvHIN1sqjgigo1_r1_1280.png
― the nervous laughter of fools (Matt #2), Thursday, 17 October 2024 13:33 (two years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Treasure-island-map.jpg/674px-Treasure-island-map.jpg
treasure island, robert louis stevenson, 1883
― mark s, Thursday, 17 October 2024 19:47 (two years ago)
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, illustrated by E. H. Shepard
https://www.britishlibrary.cn/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/12840_pp_25_inside-fc_fs001r-1280x1001.jpg
― jmm, Saturday, 19 October 2024 15:56 (two years ago)
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/moomin/images/8/89/Moominvalleymaptj.jpgTove Jansson, Moominland
― Ari (whenuweremine), Monday, 28 October 2024 15:00 (two years ago)
map of the realms in Gene Wolfe's Wizard Knight
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pez4GFyn8jg/XN8nMS2hpPI/AAAAAAAAN2M/Wv3T8PZdEu0VtnubNCkX2lCTShtOcn0UwCLcBGAs/s1600/wizardknightdiagram.jpg
― silverfish, Monday, 28 October 2024 15:56 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/PMlFnow.jpeg
the empire of olondria, from a stranger in olondria by sofia samatar
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 November 2024 06:16 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/0Bgy6M4.jpeg
myrillia, from the godslayer chronicles by james clemens
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 November 2024 01:19 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/FP1QgQa.jpeg
the kingdom, from how to become the dark lord and die trying by django wexler
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 December 2024 00:24 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/vGp3qco.jpeg
seven crests, from the sky on fire by jenn lyons
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 December 2024 00:25 (one year ago)
lol what xp
― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 December 2024 00:27 (one year ago)
iirc that book is meta
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 December 2024 01:14 (one year ago)
OMG I just read that Django Wexler book a month ago
― Jaq, Wednesday, 11 December 2024 03:18 (one year ago)
The Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith from a map prepared by Robert E Howard
https://64.media.tumblr.com/e2dfff031ce8dda3f3bc6b44477e714d/tumblr_pq9u6vFZbr1ueapts_1280.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 15 December 2024 13:06 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/oCbDypa.jpeg
the world of the five gods, by lois mcmaster bujold
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 December 2024 05:50 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/r8Uk12g.jpeg
gailand, from the waters of lethe by r.s.a garcia
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 December 2024 05:51 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/RY5dZ2J.jpeg
antea & environs, from the dagger and the coin by daniel abraham
https://i.imgur.com/qCJQH0L.jpeg
ylesuin, from the fortress series by c.j. cherryh
I've always loved fantasy maps that had little buildings marking settlements/cities. Even better if the buildings are done in a kind of perspective.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 28 December 2024 12:15 (one year ago)
https://sorcerersskull.tumblr.com/image/95279820736This is by the great Sidney Sime but I don't know what it's for, it's not for a Dunsany book. Maybe he just did it for fun?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 30 December 2024 16:28 (one year ago)
https://sorcerersskull.tumblr.com/image/95279820736
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 30 December 2024 16:29 (one year ago)
That's amazing.
― jmm, Monday, 30 December 2024 16:31 (one year ago)
But is it as good as Terry Goodkind's map for The Sword of Truth? Hard to say.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sot/images/4/45/New_world_map.jpg
― jmm, Monday, 30 December 2024 16:34 (one year ago)
Those are both excellent.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 30 December 2024 18:58 (one year ago)
octopussies: always jumping up suddenly
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 December 2024 20:29 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/yZB64DU.jpeg
osten ard, from the dragonbone chair by tad williams
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 January 2025 03:00 (one year ago)
almost as many thrithings as there are nyacks
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 January 2025 03:01 (one year ago)
cool reptile
― budo jeru, Sunday, 26 January 2025 05:06 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/PwyqvM0.png
(unofficial) Mount Kolvir and environs, from Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
― rainbow calx (lukas), Sunday, 26 January 2025 05:22 (one year ago)
i love the idea of a world so richly constructed there's a ministry of the interior geological survey, but the geographers presumably decided to call the sea The Sea. good lookin map tho
― budo jeru, Sunday, 26 January 2025 23:39 (one year ago)
mapping the shadows must be a hell of a job
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 January 2025 00:16 (one year ago)
A couple of weeks ago, the NY Times ran an excellent obit of Middle Earth/Pern geographer Karen Wynn Fonstad in their overlooked obit serieshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/obituaries/karen-wynn-fonstad-overlooked.html
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 27 January 2025 01:43 (one year ago)
thanks!
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 January 2025 02:06 (one year ago)
also, lol
“It was like the Velvet Underground of fantasy mapmaking,” Jason Fry, a co-author of “Star Wars: The Essential Atlas” (2009, with Daniel Wallace), said in an interview about “The Atlas of Middle-earth.” “Everyone who read it went out and got graph paper and mapped something.”
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 January 2025 02:15 (one year ago)
I know I did in 6th grade!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 27 January 2025 02:40 (one year ago)
my dad was a chemist, so i literally had graph paper notebooks! but nevertheless i never got more scientific than drawing the 'riddlemaster of hed' world freehand on a blank page
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 January 2025 02:48 (one year ago)
I was looking for graph paper recently, and lamenting the demise of stationary stores
I def made some maps and had graph paper books. iirc Judges Guild made, like, blank fantasy map books with hex, big graph, small graph, and maybe other templates.
― sleeve, Monday, 27 January 2025 02:58 (one year ago)
ah yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasy_Cartographer%27s_Field_Book
― sleeve, Monday, 27 January 2025 02:59 (one year ago)
iirc i did draw a few d&d dungeons on graph paper but i always made the final boss asmodeus or demogorgon, which was utterly absurd and we never played them
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 January 2025 03:20 (one year ago)
Hands up if you had a copy of this...
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1kMqxqUoaL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 27 January 2025 05:40 (one year ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Imaginary_Places
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 27 January 2025 05:41 (one year ago)
Still do!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 27 January 2025 11:03 (one year ago)
Yes!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 27 January 2025 11:25 (one year ago)
https://bsky.app/profile/thomrey.bsky.social/post/3k5ce6cjvkx22
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 February 2025 20:50 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/0PCzePH.jpeg
from the five penalties by marina lostetter
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 April 2025 06:56 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/fYpBegD.jpeg
orrun, from the raven scholar by antonia hodgson
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 May 2025 01:54 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/7SQpQrX.jpeg
the named territories, from the naming song by jedediah berry
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 May 2025 22:33 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/jMAsgmp.jpeg
from the sharing knife by lois mcmaster bujold
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 May 2025 23:37 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/y9Q7c9B.jpeg
the nine lands, from a song of legends lost by m.h. ayinde
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 June 2025 23:50 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/lDwoj3F.jpeg
the kingdom of elben, from six wild crowns by holly race
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 August 2025 01:40 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/qet1iOv.jpeg
akhebulin, from birth of a dynasty by chinaza bado
― mookieproof, Sunday, 31 August 2025 23:26 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/9RWcvVk.jpeg
the tu'itonga empire, from the wayfinder by adam johnson
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 October 2025 01:14 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/BREo26B.jpeg
from the hierarchy by james islington
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 November 2025 04:45 (eleven months ago)
https://scontent-lhr6-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/600281981_10164620131941672_5978780364847149173_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=n0Zq3rkbZnQQ7kNvwFkU9H_&_nc_oc=Adl6FNlmGl4t7VkaD_6Wl_gl219rV5Y4RLD6HnWiz1S0OCH7392i1kio_CUFWkUBWAzSZmpwBoOy1p_1zUd-0z8_&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr6-2.xx&_nc_gid=L946_A5-O3J2ViR9286Xjg&oh=00_AfmL0l0Vvm_WitB7kl55XpXgYSGDX7UYvRtKnnePgjr5_w&oe=6949715E
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 18 December 2025 08:19 (ten months ago)
From The Marvelous Wizard of Oz (1975) Treasury Edition, with words by Roy Thomas, art by John Buscema, Tony DeZuniga & The Tribe, and colours by Glynis Wein.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 18 December 2025 08:21 (ten months ago)
https://i.postimg.cc/m2stf1Vh/le-guin-western-shore-powers.jpg
the western shore, from (the) annals of the western shore by ursula k. le guin
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 March 2026 01:08 (eight months ago)
https://i.postimg.cc/YC5C7K5F/suri-the-isle-in-the-silver-sea.jpg
the isle, from the isle in the silver sea by tasha suri
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 March 2026 00:35 (eight months ago)
https://i.postimg.cc/rs286S7p/lygd.jpg
the rokasmaan empire and surroundings, from green & deadly things by jenn lyons
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 March 2026 01:06 (eight months ago)
https://cdn.grupoelcorteingles.es/SGFM/dctm/MEDIA03/202405/28/00106540431555____17__1200x1200.jpg
The Archipelago from Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell. (This one's bad imo, what is that lumpy italy in the middle?)
― ledge, Friday, 6 March 2026 09:18 (eight months ago)
huh, The Isle looks very familiar, can't put my finger on it though
― Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Friday, 6 March 2026 11:32 (eight months ago)
this one looks vaguely familiar as well
https://i.postimg.cc/fTz15fZX/wleruqapuj.jpg
the khaganate, from the eternal sky trilogy by elizabeth bear
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2026 23:58 (six months ago)
https://defector.com/making-a-great-fantasy-map-is-an-art-and-ross-douthat-sucks-at-it
(https://web.archive.org/web/20261015193217/https://defector.com/making-a-great-fantasy-map-is-an-art-and-ross-douthat-sucks-at-it)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 October 2026 20:18 (three weeks ago)
https://jonathancrowe.net/essays/maps-in-science-fiction
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 October 2026 21:53 (three weeks ago)