Maps And Getting There And Back Again: Part 2 – Fictional Modes of Travel

In Part 1 (here it is for anyone who missed it), I discussed travelling in the real world, and the long, endless hours we can take. Great authors realize the lack of drama in hour-by-hour journeys, and find ways around telling the ‘boring parts’. Tension is built by the continuous threat of some antagonistic force,…

Maps And Getting There And Back Again: Part 1 – Realtime Journeys

I was reading a post from A Pilgrim in Narnia titled The Land Where Oz Is North of Middle Earth and was led to ponder my own love of fictional maps. The first fictional map I remember is from The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander. I spent hours looking over the Great Avren River, tracing the path…