An In-Universe Star Trek Book Has Received A Real-World Honor
Map 1: Known Space from STAR TREK: STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY. Image: Epic Ink.
OCTOBER 21, 2022 - Many of us have harbored a fascination with maps from time to time. Perhaps you collected the maps that came with the shiny new National Geographic each month. Or you had a map of the night sky or the surface of the Moon. For Star Trek fans that includes the notion of stellar cartography – maps of, say, the Alpha Quadrant and beyond.
Now a book on stellar cartography within the Star Trek universe has garnered some renewed attention. As part of a list of the best cartography books of all time, Bookauthority has included Star Trek: Stellar Cartography, by Larry Nemecek.
Stellar Cartography takes its place at number 31 on the list of one hundred, among other titles ranging from Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends and London Underground Maps: Art, Design, and Cartography to, appropriately enough, Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography.
Nemecek’s book includes “an ancient Vulcan map, a Klingon Empire map from the pre-Organian Peace Treaty era (in the native Klingon), an official Romulan government map of the Empire, a native Cardassian Union map from the Bajor occupation, along with Federation maps from the modern era.”
Bookauthority assembles book recommendations from what it calls “thought leaders and experts.”
Larry Nemecek’s Star Trek: Stellar Cartography is available on Amazon or wherever you get your books.
David is a contributing writer for Daily Star Trek News on the Roddenberry Podcast Network. He is a librarian, baseball fan, and book and movie buff. He has also written for American Libraries and Skeptical Inquirer. David also enjoys diverse music, but leans toward classical and jazz. He plays a mean radio.
