Category: Offline Geofictions

This is a map of the continent of Tsiqeye, on the planet Rahet. I drew this in 1978. I also commonly called it Ciiqia at that time. Same name, different spelling.

This is a map of the subway system in the city of Las Aguas, loosely based on Las Vegas, I think. I drew this in 1981.

This is a map of some medieval kingdom. I think I drew it around 1982.

This is a map of the Pas Daons, a later version but still not integrated to Mahhal. I would say I drew it late high school – maybe 1983.

This is a map of a place whose name I can no longer decipher. I used to invent writing systems to go with my imaginary worlds, and this one, undocumented, is lost to time. It’s clearly inspired by Tolkien’s Elvish, but I doubt it’s in any way directly related.

The archipelago-of-islands is obviously drawing on LeGuin’s Earthsea, which I thought very highly of at the time. I’d estimate this was drawn around 1979. The rapidograph ink lines give away the period.

This is an imaginary pre-classical-era palace, on the model of ancient Greek or Minoan palaces such as were excavated at Crete. I drew this around 1978.

This is the land called Tabec. I drew a dozen or so maps of Tabec during my high school years. It was a parallel-Canada – note the imitation Great Lakes.

I would put this one at 1980, or so. The green-barred continuous-feed computer printout paper gives it away as being fairly early. I used to get piles of the blank printout paper from my uncle, who took classes in computers at the nearby university.

This is a very preliminary sketch of a USA-style town, somewhere in “parallel-California,” named “Fort Orly.” I’m going to guess I drew it around 1979. I had just discovered the short stories of Jorge Luís Borges, so you see a “Lake Borges” here.

This is one of the many incarnations of what I know in my mind as the “Pas Taons.” This later became integrated to Mahhal lore as the site for the city of Derindonderak, but here it is still just the Pas Taons, and interestingly, I seem to have allowed some parallel-earth Spaniards to colonize the area (note the cities of Tripoli and Puerto Grande).

I suspect this is from when I was in high school. Maybe around 1982.

This is a place called Ruzot. It’s some kind of impressionistic “overhead view” rather than a schematic map. I think it dates to maybe 1988 or so.