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An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands

By Fran Wilde
An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands by Fran Wilde digital book - Fable

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Fran Wilde's fantasy short story "An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands" is a Tor.com Original

One can't set a course without a map. A ship's navigator seeks to map a world already inhabited in order to find a space for their ship's passengers to settle. In doing so, they find their course altered as the world and their place in it changes.

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“Short story advent utilising tordotcom free fiction 18/24”
“This was an interesting concept that fell down with its execution. The story follows a third-generation navigator, born and raised on a ship that has been traversing the stars all that time in search of a new home for it's passengers and crew. By the time they arrive on a new planet at the beginning of the story, they've reached a point of no return. With only the one option in front of them, the navigator sets out to find a place to settle on what is an already inhabited world. Whilst the navigator sets out to map the land, the story soon develops into a map of their life instead. As the crew and passengers on the ship wait (largely comatose, it seems) for the navigator's return, the navigator begins to assimilate into the new world without them. The main issue I had with this story was the way the author chose to tell it. It felt like they hadn't decided whether this would be a story told in verse or not, so the end result was a lyrical, but largely vague, narrative that negatively impacted the storytelling. It felt fragmented, lacking in any sense of flow, and I became frustrated with it quite early on. This could have been great, but it felt unresolved because of the issues above. I interpreted the main character as being gender-fluid, which added an element of representation that was not only great to see, but fit well within the context of the story (i.e.: three generations from now, it seems absolutely plausible that we will no longer feel so personally attached to a gender label - long live the day). But I wish it had done more to develop the character rather than just plot their life's trajectory on a map. A bit of a let down, but an exciting idea that I hope can be developed further in future.”

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