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Map of the Dragon Award Lands

Kerfuffles take careful planning and years of preparation. The Dragon Awards simply don’t get to ‘kerfuffle’ level overnight. Even so, with an additional faction and as I have a map thing going on recently, here is the Dragon Award Map. I’ve tried to make it as 1990’s extruded fantasy aesthetic as possible with big colours.

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There have been many shifts of lands since the Puppy Kerfuffle Map. Rabidonia is still there but now has the Pulp Peninsular marked on with a misspelling caused by me trying not make a penis joke (since corrected). John C Wright now has his own separate island as does Larry Correia. Sadland has sailed off the map. Eric Flint’s island remains where it was but with a new name. Likewise, the island marked as ‘Whatever’ on the former map is in a similar position but now renamed. The mysterious lands of Inkshares have appeared out of the mists, as have (since yesterday) the newly discovered Red Panda Land. The Islets of Confused Nominees are famed for being inhabited by authors saying “I’ve been nominated for a what now?”

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41 responses to “Map of the Dragon Award Lands”

  3. This is nothing short of brilliant in design, aesthetic, and naming. And Papyrus!

    The mysterious land of Inkshares is so mysterious I don’t recall hearing of it.

    Do you perhaps mean “The Pulp Peninsula”? (noun, not adjective)

    I wish there was some way to depict the flotilla as much larger. Maybe put a generic extruded fantasy sailing ship there? A ship would fit the aesthetic of these maps.

    And of course the whole map is Here There Be Dragons.
    (another reason to have a ship)

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      • @Lurkertype —

        Harry Dresden!

        I originally made up my user name as an analog of Dresden’s fake-Latin/Italian/Spanish spells (forzare, fuego, aparturum, and so on) back when I was frequenting the Jim Butcher board quite a few years ago. It wasn’t until later that I realized “Contrarius” was REAL Latin. LOL.

        If you see a bigger version of my avatar, you’ll see he’s got Harry’s glove (the glove he wore while his hand was still injured) as well as both his staff and blasting rod. 🙂

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    • Inkshares is sort of a Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, but only for books, where potential readers and fans back whatever book they want to see published. I used to see links to Inkshares campaigns on occasion, but I haven’t seen any in about a year or so. Didn’t even know they were still around, until Inkshares authors and books started showing up in the Dragon Awards.

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  5. I think you could remove the first “of Dragon Con” in the flotilla label, so it wouldn’t be so repetitive and wordy.
    Also it would leave more room for a ship.

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  8. Not sure, but whatever it is, lots of people checked out my book and learned i write fun, good fiction and they don’t have to deal with politics in it! 🙂 So I’m quite happy with how it’s all gone.

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      • Yeah, I’m always amused when authors claim there’s no politics in their work. There’s ALWAYS politics of some sort, even if it’s only expressed in the way their characters dress or act.

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      • There’s no politics in my work. Thanks for telling me what I think thought police 🙂 What you read into it is your business. But I encourage that nonetheless!

        And LOL Mike 🙂

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        • Star Realms: Rescue Run is full of politics – that is true regardless of what you think. I mean sure, if you want to have your own definition of ‘politics’ that’s fine but outside of your own head words have shared meanings.

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      • There is politics in every creative work, Jon. Yours, mine, everybody’s. You’re simply harbouring under the misconception that political content you agree with is not political.

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  9. Awesome map!

    And as a side note I think ‘I don’t judge things by their politics, unlike those leftist SJWs’ is becoming the new ‘Only the Sith deal in absolutes’.

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  10. If you define “politics” so broadly that you can seriously claim that “there’s politics in all stories,” then I claim you don’t have a very useful definition.

    Just speaking about short fiction, I find that very few stories–maybe 5% or less-have anything I’d call a political message. Of those that do, it’s invariably a detriment. Not always a fatal detriment–all stories have flaws of one kind or another–but it’s not a plus. Even when the political message is one that you agree with.

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    • 1. “politics” and “political message” are two different thing
      2. A relatively tight definition of politics may still imply that most stories contain political elements. Note the issue isn’t whether its a definition of politics that includes everything but vice-versa a definition that means politics can be found in anything.
      3. Star Realms: Rescue Run contains politics in most senses of ‘politics’ and arguably contains a political message

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      • camestrosfelapton:
        1. “politics” and “political message” are two different thing
        2. A relatively tight definition of politics may still imply that most stories contain political elements. Note the issue isn’t whether its a definition of politics that includes everything but vice-versa a definition that means politics can be found in anything.

        Exactly. Where people tend to find “political messages”, I think, is when the plot is based on a setup they disagree with.

        For example, a book with a highly authoritarian government, where this is portrayed as a functional, successful culture, is going to be perceived as a “political message” by someone whose personal bent is anti-authoritarian. Likewise, a book where the main figures in power are women, and this is portrayed as a functional, successful culture, is going to be perceived as a “political message” by someone who doesn’t feel that women are capable of those sorts of roles.

        Conversely, a book with a highly authoritarian government, where this is portrayed as a dysfunctional, oppressive culture, is going to be perceived as a “political message” by someone whose personal bent is authoritarian. Likewise, a book where the main figures in power are women, and this is portrayed as a dysfunctional, oppressive culture, is going to be perceived as a “political message” by someone who feels that women are capable of those sorts of roles.

        When people believe that there is nothing political in a book, it’s almost always a case of a fish not noticing the water in which it is accustomed to swimming.

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      • It’s mean to accuse Del Arroz of writing about politics; he’s just writing a story with politicians and political conflict – no politics there. Next thing you know, you’ll be accusing him of writing prose!

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    • Difference between politics and politics message. Like Infomocracy had a lot of politics but the underlying theme of the story I didn’t see as having a strong political message. Broken Earth had politics and slavery however I didn’t read a political message in them aside from the recurring systems of abuse in order to make life more comfortable for some, though there are those who would see a political message in that.

      The Expanse features a gay married couple with a child, and despite that not being thematucally what the book is about will see that as a political message regardless.

      While I agree with you that most books aren’t thematically political with the story intended to convey a positive or negative political message, the content can be seen as political. Like how Star Wars isn’t political message fiction about rebelling against unchecked fascism, and yet it contains characters rebelling against an Empire.

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