Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings

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277 Index ................ Abhorsen (Nix). See Nix, Garth actual world, definition of, 10 Alexander, Lloyd, Prydain, 259n49 Anderson, Poul, 21, 240n43; Three Hearts and Three Lions, 72, 246n25. See also Anderson, Poul and Karen Anderson, Poul and Karen, Dahut, 24, 33 Andersson, Petra, 252n18 archetypes, 143, 184 Armbruster, Karla, 256n85 Arthur, King, 6–7, 186, 188, 190, 258n39 Attebery, Brian, 41, 83, 129; fantasy as fuzzy set, 6, 8–9, 219, 221, 236n28, 250n98; fantasy endings, 63–64, 179 Avilion (Holdstock). See Holdstock, Robert Bailey, Geoff, 259n46 Baker, Deirdre F., 17–18, 222 Balfe, Myles, 16–17 Barber, Richard, 258n37 Barkley, Christine, 206 Barrie, J. M., Peter Pan, 91 Barry, Peter, 213 Bates, Daniel G., 131, 134, 156 Baum, L. Frank: Ozma of Oz, 27; TikTok of Oz, 241n57; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 38 Beowulf, 7, 196 Berggren, J. Lennart, 241n53 Black, Jeremy, 20, 60 blank spaces, 14, 43, 52, 64–65. See also maps borders, 100, 126–28, 217, 220; definition of, 69; between life and death, 70, 72–82; between fairy and mundanity , 71–72, 82–92; between magic and technology, 72, 92–98; Campbellian perspective, 98–99. See also boundaries; polders; thresholds boundaries, 72, 126–28, 217; around cities, 129, 134; definition of, 12, 69; in Holdstock, 109–17; in Miéville, 154–66, 254n67; in Pratchett, 117–25; in Tolkien, 101–9; turning geography to history, 12, 125–26. See also borders ; polders; thresholds Boyer, Robert H., 2, 10, 41 Bradley, Marion Zimmer, The Firebrand , 236n33 Breivik, Gunnar, 255–56n83 Brennan, Andrew, 130–31 Brooks, Terry: Magic Kingdom of Landover, 27, 182–83, 215; Shannara, 10, 259n48 Browning, Robert, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” 196–97, 200, 207–9, 212 Brust, Steven, 12, 70, 72–82, 86, 93, 98, 100, 220 Butler, Andrew M., 117 Campbell, Joseph, 72, 98–99 Canavan, Trudy, Last of the Wilds, 25–26 Card, Orson Scott, 21, 33 cartographers, 19, 30, 38, 40, 44, 50, 62; fictional, 31, 45, 51, 54–55; implied, 45, 51, 54–55. See also mapmakers Cauldron of Story, 6–7, 219–20, 236n35 Celtic ideas of kingship, 188, 258n39 center and periphery: in cities, 136–37, 139–42, 146, 148, 150–51, 165–66, 174; of landscapes of evil, 196, 212; on 278 INdEx maps, 28, 31–32, 47, 51–52, 62–64, 66; in polders, 112–17, 125; of the story, 101, 109, 117, 128, 158–59, 178, 185, 205 center. See center and periphery Cherryh, C. J., Faery in Shadow, 71 chōrographica, 42 Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval, 187, 258n34 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 131–32 cities: Amaz (Goldstein), 190–94; Armada (Miéville), 154, 162–65; Caras Galadhon (Tolkien), 105, 108, 135–36, 138, 140–41; in fantasy, 129, 134–35; Instruere (Kirkpatrick), 30–32; Las Vegas (Powers), 188–89; Minas Tirith (Tolkien), 12, 135–41, 173–76, 218; as nature/culture interfaces, 12, 129, 134, 161, 173; New Crobuzon (Miéville ), 12, 135, 154–62, 165–67, 173– 76, 218; Newford (de Lint), 12, 71, 135, 141–54, 155, 159–61, 167, 173–76, 218; Ombria (McKillip), 12, 135, 166– 76, 218; uncommon in Middle-earth, 58–59, 135–36 Clarke, Susanna, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, 71 Clute, John, 2, 90, 135, 175, 233n2, 241n47, 249n63, 250n98; on polders, 100, 121, 125; on the Ryhope Wood series, 111, 113; on thresholds, 68–69, 75, 77, 98; on water margins, 26, 28, 173 Cogswell, Theodore, “The Wall Around the World,” 72 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 235n26 Conan the Barbarian, 10, 15, 24, 231, 240–41n46 Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, 43 contours, 39–40, 42, 242n70. See also hill signs Cook, Glen, The Black Company, 197– 98, 212 Cooper, Louise, Aisling, 32 Cooper, Rich Paul, 155 Cornish, D. M., Monster-Blood Tattoo/ The Foundling’s Tale series, 38 crosshatches, 69, 71, 75–77, 86–87, 90, 94 Crowley, John, Little, Big, 71 culture: controlling nature, 132; definitions of, 130–33; feral, 158, 164. See also Darwinism; nature; scala naturae ; second nature damnatio memoriae, 191–92, 194, 214 Dante Alighieri, 7, 14, 18, 20, 74, 115, 196–97, 209, 212 Dark Realms. See landscapes of evil Darwinism, 133 Day, Frank W., 15–16, 240n43 Dayton, Gail, The Barbed Rose, 28 de Lint, Charles, 12, 71, 135, 141–55, 159–61, 167, 173–76, 218, 220 Dickerson, Matthew, 141, 198, 202, 261n70 Dickson, Gordon R., The Dragon and the George, 236n34 disbelief, 91–92, 235n26 Discworld. See Pratchett, Terry Divina Commedia. See Dante Alighieri docemes...