My second index (or, more properly, concordance) of Transported: a selection of places visited or referred to in those 27 short stories – the bulk of them real. I have put these in roughly south to north order, but there’s a little east and west as well, so don’t sweat a few degrees here and a few degrees there.
McMurdo Base, the Wright Valley, Lake Vanda, Don Juan Pond
Punta Arenas, Patagonia
The Sandy Point Domain, Invercargill, the flat Southland plains (as twilight flows in), Gore, Queenstown, Wanaka, Rabbit Pass and the Waterfall Face (experienced trampers only), the Waiatoto River, Haast
Dunedin, Tomahawk, Smaills Beach (warning: footing uneven), Flagstaff, Taiaroa Head
Christchurch Airport, the Clarence River, the Seaward Kaikouras
Wellington, Miramar Island, Oriental Bay, Mount Victoria, the National Library of New Zealand (Rare Books Collection), the Basin Reserve, Island Bay, an imaginary tryline, the Loading Zone, the Angus Inn
Mana, Kapiti, Shannon, Palmerston North
Ngaruawahia
Utley Terrace, Rosemont Primary
Canberra, Goulburn (which does little to break the monotony), Sydney, Dubbo, Parkes
Basseterre (capital of St Kitts)
Santa Fé, Gainesville, Quantico, Washington, DC, the East River, Wyoming
Thebes, Mount Athos
Exmoor, Porlock (a poor excuse)
Saxony (where exchange students come from)
Moscow (who lost 5-1), Gorky Park, Kazakhstan, Lake Baikal
The Finland Station, Murmansk, Magadan
The Northern Festival Circuit (Nuuk, Norilsk, Vorkuta, Longyearbyen)
The Valles Marineris (with robots running around)
Triton (a moon of Neptune; Samuel Delany got there first)
Felsen’s Planet (in the Arcturus sector)
The Virgo Cluster (fifty million light years away)
Looking at People and Places, I guess I could have called the book “Strangers and Journeys” – but that’s already been done.
