[ SECRET POST #3743 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3743 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/DmcvVfA.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

The problem is there aren't many fandoms that have enough material to really pull that off.

[ketita]

Came here to say this. Many authors can fake a detailed world; not that many can really build one with enough meat to legitimize something like this.

[(Anonymous)]

My mother has a copy of this (and the Atlas of Pern by the same author) and when I was growing up I used to love going over all the maps again and again (even before I'd read any of the Pern books). I got kind of frustrated at how schematic and unimaginative they usually were when it came to architecture (Rivendell is... a rectangular box! Gee, thanks.) but I guess that wasn't really her thing (or the point of the books)

I loved all the Star Trek stuff, like the technical manual (Mom had an old one from TOS with these amazing fold-out maps of the ship, but the TNG one was my favorite).

[(Anonymous)]

I love reference books in general, even for non-fandom stuff. But, yes, I absolutely love this atlas (the same artist did one for Pern, which is also very nice). I was rereading Silmarillion and I had it right with me so I actually knew what was going on. I don't know if I could understand the book as well as I do now without this atlas. That's one of the reasons I love Tolkien - that he has enough material for such an in-depth reference. I love maps as much as Bilbo!

[(Anonymous)]

My favourite book in thewhole of the Belgariad sequence is The Rivan Codex. All that geeky worldbuilding!

I think part of the attraction of these sorts of books is that you can just dip into them - you don't have to concentrate too much on what's going on.

[mimi_sardinia]

I was just thinking of the Rivan Codex too.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, a franchise that could use something like this is Pokémon. Though it would have to be a unified world sort of thing, or have in-depth looks at the differences between the series. And it would have to be written by people who knew what they were doing (Takeshi Shudo's ghost, I'm looking in your direction).

[(Anonymous)]

She did a Dragonlance atlas which was just great. Though I was very surprised to read that they made the main continent in the southern hemisphere to mess with people's perceptions, because it seemed totally normal to me for it to be cold in the south and hot in the north!

I get this.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried wikis? Some are not that good, but most of them have a lot of information.