A lovely read on maps in fantasy books. I was a teenage RPGer, which involved drawing maps of made up, mostly medieval worlds. What is the meaning of this? – Containment, control, wish fulfillment for a teenage boy, probably. Also notes Nabokov’s precise, cartographic geography in Pale Fire and Pnin (around Waindell and Cremona, as well as Zembla), and Kinbote’s handsome, accurate plans of the Onhava palace. Nabokov also encouraged his students to map Dublin when teaching Ulysses.