Fictional maps

Do you like maps in books?  I see them every once in a while in SF, star systems, etc., but it's a fantasy and historic thing for the most part. Do you make maps for any of your fiction projects?  Most of the time I don't make anything worth showing anyone, just a sketch of a building plan with room layouts (keeping track of furniture, don't want the protagonist tripping over something, etc.), or terrain with an arrow indicating from which direction the Illyrians will be attacking (mainly so I won't put the sun setting in the east).  I still have an old green folder with photocopies of maps of Roman Europe and hand-drawn coastlines of Viking era Britain and northern France.  I made some decent maps of ancient Greece, especially the north around Pella and Amphipolis for my stories about Aristotle.  And I have been goofing with one for an undersea world that I've been developing for a while and used in two novels and a short story so far.  I've tried to give it an old map feel, and I'll keep working on it, filling in some of the blank areas.  (Interesting info about Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: "The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure, devised during a holiday in Scotland by Stevenson and his nephew.")

More of my map posts here:
http://the0phrastus.typepad.com/the0phrastus/2008/06/fictional-maps.html

Here a few of mine:

 

 

Comments

[steven K]

i was wondering is you could let me use, or make me a map for a fictional world, please e mail me back :-)