r/fantasybooks • u/marintkael • 2d ago
💬 Let's discuss something Which fantasy book had a map you actually kept flipping back to?
Earthsea is mine. Le Guin drew the archipelago map herself, and in A Wizard of Earthsea I kept checking it as Ged chases his shadow further and further out, until the islands just stop and there's nothing left on the page but open sea.
Most maps at the front of a book I look at once and forget. Which ones did you actually use while reading, and was it because the journey mattered or because the world was just fun to get lost in?
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u/tgrady28 🏰 Worldbuilding addict 2d ago
WOT. That world will always blow my mind with how intricute it is
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u/marintkael 2d ago
Wheel of Time earns its map more than most, because the books keep sending people from one edge of it to the other. I checked where the Two Rivers sat against Caemlyn and Tar Valon more often than I'd like to admit.
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u/13nisha 2d ago
I started reading a day of fallen night as ebook and quickly got a physical copy so I could keep flipping back to the maps. The cast of characters is big and set all over the world, and some of them travel. So I found it helpful to follow along the journeys. and to quickly refresh myself where countries are in relation to each other, to give context to the political aspects of the story.
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u/marintkael 2d ago
Maps are the one place paper still wins for me. On an ereader the map is a dozen taps away and by the time you're back you've lost your sentence. And Shannon's cast is spread over all four corners, so I'd have caved too.
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u/iabyajyiv 2d ago
The only time I ever wanted a map was Parable of the Sower. Unfortunately, I don't recall there being one.
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