Fantasy cartography
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fantasy-cartography-187-2140681
title:
Fantasy cartography
text:
Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres. Stefan Ekman says, "a [regular] map re-presents what is already there; a fictional map is often primary – to create the map means, largely, to create the world of the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Study and creation of maps of imagined places or events
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_cartography
date created:
2009-07-08T21:29:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T07:29:27Z
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