I've yet to read Crossed but I took a look at the maps and I have to say, I enjoyed looking at this the same I enjoyed THG map. It helps me get more into the story to visualize the scenery.
I still need to read Crossed, but I just wanted to comment that you're kind like YA fandom's version A Beautiful Mind. I will check back with a more helpful response after I read the second book.
This is great! I had the map, but I read it on my Kindle so I couldn't make it out very well lol. So this is fantastic to visualize. Oh btw, when is it mentioned that Central is IN Oria Province?! Guess I didn't catch that...
See, I didn't get that from the books, either, but it's a Matched Fact (which are written by someone at Penguin, not just a fan) so it must be true. I guess they do say that Cassia lives in "the largest city in The Society."
I just have a question, and I feel as though you could give me a real answer (seeing as you do this for fun. :P Haha). Why is it that whenever a fictional dystopian map of North America is drawn.. it's always only in the US. (Well, I suppose it's in the Prairies and BC, too.. you know what I mean, though) Anyway, my point being is the some geographical ideaology you use? Or do you go based off population or bias or something else?
On another note, I prefer the second map. It makes more sense to me. They both look well thought out, though. :)
Well, I think it's because as of yet, there haven't been any YA dystopias that I know of that take place on another continent. Suzanne Collins specifically said Panem used to be North America, and Ally Condie said the same of The Society. Delirium takes place in what used to be Portland, Maine, so OSTENSIBLY it could be more Canadian if they're on the southern edge of that society, but still North America. I haven't read Wither or Shatter Me yet, though -- those might be somewhere else?
And as for why writers tend to write in North America... I'm not 100% sure, but I know writers are usually taught to "write what they know" and if a North American writer with only North American cultural knowledge is creating a dystopia, it probably makes the most sense to set it here. But I'm not sure! :)
Thank you! You didn't 100% understand my question.. but that's okay. I still see where you're coming from.. answered basically the same question. (What I meant was not why writers tend to write in NA.. but rather why people who draw the fictional maps draw them mainly in the USA, but from your answer, I get the answer I was looking for anyway.:P Thanks!) It's kind of what I figured. It really is bias, which makes sense.
Ohhhh. Well, as for me, I drew the Panem map mainly in the USA because Suzanne Collins specifically said that the Capitol is in Colorado, that D11 is where the Deep South is/used to be, and that District Twelve is in Appalachia, which are all in the US, and for The Society map, Ally Condie specifically put The Carving in western Utah. :) IDK why other people do, too, but that's why for these two it works out that way!
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Why is it that whenever a fictional dystopian map of North America is drawn.. it's always only in the US. (Well, I suppose it's in the Prairies and BC, too.. you know what I mean, though) Anyway, my point being is the some geographical ideaology you use? Or do you go based off population or bias or something else?
On another note, I prefer the second map. It makes more sense to me. They both look well thought out, though. :)
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And as for why writers tend to write in North America... I'm not 100% sure, but I know writers are usually taught to "write what they know" and if a North American writer with only North American cultural knowledge is creating a dystopia, it probably makes the most sense to set it here. But I'm not sure! :)
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You didn't 100% understand my question.. but that's okay. I still see where you're coming from.. answered basically the same question. (What I meant was not why writers tend to write in NA.. but rather why people who draw the fictional maps draw them mainly in the USA, but from your answer, I get the answer I was looking for anyway.:P Thanks!) It's kind of what I figured. It really is bias, which makes sense.
Anyway, thanks! And great maps. :)
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