Now, this specific map isn’t in the quiz, but The Guardian has a quiz that tests your fictional geography knowledge. What really stands out is that some books have need of very elaborate maps where ...

"One of the more interesting student projects I've seen in a long time used a "document-based" approach to architecture to fabricate an entire fictional world—one in which top secret underground ...

Adrian Leskiw is one of the rarest kinds of science fiction creators: He does his world-building entirely through the medium of road maps. A self-professed road geek, Leskiw creates extremely ...

In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond Chandler From efforts to map Odysseus’s journey to Borges’s commentary on map-making in On ...

If J.R.R. Tolkien didn't invent the epic, world-building literary genre known as high fantasy, he at least codified and provided a blueprint for most of its conventions. And so we have Tolkien (and ...