Fiction About Maps: A Bibliography

1. Children’s Books/Young Adult
2. Comics
3. Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror
4. Literary/Mainstream
5. Mysteries
6. Poetry
7. To Investigate

☞ ^b blog post; ^r review

Children’s Books/Young Adult

• Abrahamson, Karen L. The Cartographer’s Daughter. Twisted Root, 2011.
• Hargrave, Kiran Millwood. The Girl of Ink and Stars. Chicken House, 2016.^b
• Keene, Carolyn (Mildred Wirt Benson). The Quest of the Missing Map. Grosset & Dunlap, 1942.
• Zelazny, Roger. Here, There Be Dragons. Donald M. Grant, 1992.^b

Comics

• Jasper, Michael and Niki Smith. In Maps and Legends. Online comic, 2011.^r
• Schuiten, François and Benoit Peeters. The Invisible Frontier. 2 vols. NBM Publishing, 2002-2004.^b

Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror

• Ashley, Charlotte. “Eleusinian Mysteries.” Luna Station Quarterly 23 (Sep 2015).^b
• Berg, Carol. Flesh and Spirit. Roc, 2007.
• ⸻. Breath and Bone. Roc, 2008.
• Boyczuk, Robert. The Book of Thomas, Volume One: Heaven. ChiZine, 2012.
• Brennan, Marie. Driftwood. Tachyon, 2020.^r
• Cato, Beth. “Cartographer’s Ink.” Daily Science Fiction, 24 Aug 2012.^b
• ⸻. “Maps.” Daily Science Fiction, 14 Feb 2013.^b
• Cheney, Matthew. “A Map of the Everywhere.” Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, eds. (Small Beer Press, 2007), pp. 207-221.^b
• Cockayne, Steve. Wanderers and Islanders. Orbit, 2002.
• ⸻. The Iron Chain. Orbit, 2003.
• ⸻. The Seagull Drovers. Orbit, 2004.
• Cuinn, Carrie. “How to Recover a Relative Lost During Transmatter Shipping, In Five Easy Steps.” Journal of Unlikely Cartography, Jun 2014.
• Davenport, L. M. “Hic Sunt Leones.” Shimmer 35 (Jan 2017).
• Domingue, Ronlyn. The Mapmaker’s War. Atria, 2013.
• Duncan, Andy. The Night Cache. PS Publishing, 2009.
• Dung Kai-cheung. Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City. Trans. by Dung Kai-cheung, Anders Hansson, and Bonnie S. McDougall. Columbia University Press, 2012.^b
• Eikamp, Rhonda. “The Occluded.” Journal of Unlikely Cartography, Jun 2014.
• Gilman, Felix. Thunderer. Bantam, 2008.
• Goldstein, Lisa. Tourists. Rev. ed. Tor, 1994.
• Harrow, Alix E. “The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage.” Tor.com (now Reactor), 14 Dec 2016.^b
• Howard, Kat. “All of Our Past Places.” Journal of Unlikely Cartography, Jun 2014.
• Klages, Ellen. “Caligo Lane.” Subterranean, Winter 2014.^b
• King, Stephen. “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut.” 1984. Reprinted in Skeleton Crew (Putnam, 1985), pp. 181-202.
• Kirstein, Rosemary. The Steerswoman. Del Rey, 1989.
• ⸻. The Outskirter’s Secret. Del Rey, 1992.
• ⸻. The Lost Steersman. Del Rey, 2003.
• ⸻. The Language of Power. Del Rey, 2004.
• Larson, Rich. “The Delusive Cartographer.” Beneath Ceaseless Skies 187 (24 Nov 2015).^b
• Lipkin, Shira. “The Cartographer’s Requiem.” Journal of Unlikely Cartography, Jun 2014.
• Loenen-Ruiz, Rochita. “Song of the Body Cartographer.” Philippine Genre Stories, 15 Jun 2012.
• Owen, James A. Here, There Be Dragons. Simon & Schuster, 2006.
• ⸻. The Search for the Red Dragon. Simon & Schuster, 2008.
• ⸻. The Indigo King. Simon & Schuster, 2008.
• ⸻. The Shadow Dragons. Simon & Schuster, 2009.
• ⸻. The Dragon’s Apprentice. Simon & Schuster, 2010.
• ⸻. The Dragons of Winter. Simon & Schuster, 2012.
• Parker, K. J. “Let Maps to Others.” Subterranean, Summer 2012.^b
• Pinsker, Sarah. “How a Map Works.” Journal of Unlikely Cartography, Jun 2014.
• Polanco Masa, Alejandro. El viaje de Argos. Scyla, 2012.^b
• Priest, Christopher. The Islanders. Gollancz, 2011.^r
• Rowe, Christopher. “Another Word for Map is Faith.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 111, no. 2 (Aug 2006). Reprinted in Telling the Map (Small Beer Press, 2017).^b
• Shepherd, Peng. The Cartographers. William Morrow/Orion, 2022.^{b, r}
• Swanwick, Michael. “The Dala Horse.” Tor.com (now Reactor), 13 Jul 2011.^b
• Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit. Allen & Unwin, 1937.
• Tuomala, A. M. The Map and the Territory. Candlemark and Gleam, 2022.^b
• Valente, Catherynne M. “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica.” Clarkesworld 20 (May 2008).^b
• ⸻. Palimpsest. Bantam, 2009.
• ⸻. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Feiwel & Friends, 2011.
• Van Pelt, James. “This Gray Rock, Standing Tall.” Journal of Unlikely Cartography, Jun 2014.
• White, N. E., ed. You Are Here: Tales of Cartographic Wonders. 2016.^b
• Wilde, Fran. “An Explorer’s Cartography of Already Settled Lands.” Tor.com (now Reactor), 22 Apr 2020.^b
• Wilson, Alex. “A Wizard of MapQuest.” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 23 (Nov 2008).
• Wilson, Robert Charles. “The Inner Inner City.” 1997. Reprinted in The Perseids and Other Stories (Tor, 2000), pp. 69-92.^b
• Wolfe, Gene. “The Map.” 1984. Reprinted in Endangered Species (Tor, 1989), pp. 20-36.^b
• Yu, E. Lily. “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees.” Clarkesworld 55 (Apr 2011).^b

Literary/Mainstream

• Borges, Jorge Luis. “On Exactitude in Science.” (“Del rigor en la ciencia,” 1946.)
• Bourke, Thomas. The Consolation of Maps. riverrun, 2018.^b
• Gopegui, Belén. The Scale of Maps. Trans. by Mark Schafer. City Lights, 2010.^b
• Larsen, Reif. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet. Penguin, 2009.^b
• Lopez, Barry. “The Mappist.” Light Action in the Caribbean (Knopf, 2000), pp. 146-162.^b
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. Cassell, 1883.

Mysteries

• Fairstein, Linda. Lethal Legacy. Doubleday, 2009.^b
• Harrison, Colin. You Belong to Me. Sarah Crichton, 2017.^b
• Marcuson, Steven. The Bunting Quest. Hybrid, 2016.^b
• Terrell, Heather. The Map Thief. Ballantine, 2008.^b

Poetry

• Bishop, Elizabeth. “The Map.” North and South (Houghton Mifflin, 1946).^b
• Hasler, Emily. “Cartography for Beginners.” The Rialto 76 (Autumn 2012). Reprinted at The Guardian, 4 Nov 2013.
• Miller, Kei. The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. Carcanet Press, 2014.
• Slessor, Kenneth. “The Atlas.” Cuckooz Contrey (1932).^b
• Szymborska, Wisława. “Map.” Trans. by Clare Cavanagh. The New Yorker, 14 Apr 2014.^b
• Taaffe, Sonya, “The Direction of Escape.” Not One of Us, 2022.^b
• Wilde, Fran. “The Map Year.” Instagram post, 31 Dec 2016.^b

To Investigate

• Ashley, Allen. “A Life in Maps.” The Third Alternative 13 (1997); Urban Fantastic (Crowswing Books, 2006).
• Burchill, Julie. “A Map of the Heart.” The Time Out Book of London Short Stories.
• Flynn, Michael. The January Dancer. Tor, 2008.
• Gentle, Mary. Rats and Gargoyles. Bantam, 1990.
• Gilman, Felix. Gears of the City. Bantam, 2008.
• Kelleghan, Fiona. “The Secret in the Chest: With Tests, Maps, Mysteries, and Intermittent Discussion Questions.” Realms of Fantasy 5, no. 1 (Oct 1998).
• Lewis, D. F. “A Map of Memories.” Palace Corbie Eight (Merrimack Books, 1999).
• Massey, Misty. “At Map’s End.” Rum and Rhinestones (Dragon Moon Press, 2010).
• Stackpole, Michael A. A Secret Atlas. Bantam, 2006.
• ⸻. Cartomancy. Bantam, 2006.
• ⸻. The New World. Bantam, 2007.